Author: Geek Planet

All the way back in 2021, Apple put a notch on its laptops. Five generations later, it’s still here. But what’s truly surprising is that Apple hasn’t played around with any meaningful utilities around it, unlike the Dynamic Island that gives a functional twist to the pill-shaped hole on your iPhone’s screen.  Thankfully, the developer community has built a handful of cool apps that turn the notch into an activity hub. From music playback and calendar control to a tiny viewfinder for the webcam, the notch can now do a lot.  In my most recent trip to the Mac community…

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are already warping the outlook for ad spending, casting a long, uncertain shadow over the year ahead. The full impact remains to be seen — especially since he delayed most tariffs for another 90 days — but early projections point to a market that’s already bracing for impact. Magna’s latest forecast paints the picture: the digital heavyweights — Google, Meta, Amazon and others — collectively brought in $271 billion in U.S. ad revenue last year. These so-called “digital pure players”, spanning search retail media, social, video and audio are now projected to grow by 9.1% in…

Internal Samsung SDI documents marked “Strictly Confidential” have leaked, and whoever authorised that distribution list is probably having a rough morning. The files show Samsung testing smartphone batteries of 12,000 mAh and 18,000 mAh — while the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which went on sale recently, ships with 5,000 mAh. Big numbers, messier reality Two development branches show up in the documents. One targets 12,000 mAh, the other 18,000 mAh — nearly four times what the S26 Ultra ships with. Both run on silicon-carbon battery tech, which is what’s been allowing Chinese manufacturers to dramatically increase capacity without turning their phones…

Retail media networks were supposed to be the ad industry’s silver bullet, offering highly targeted ad opportunities with first-party retailer data. But cracks are starting to form in the illusion, as marketers take a closer look at the $62 billion business in the U.S. And those cracks are trickling all the way down to the way agencies and retailers themselves hire retail media strategists, buyers and experts.Retail media is expected to be one of the fastest-growing ad channels this year, according to eMarketer. Still, it’s unclear who exactly controls retail media spend on the brand advertising side, how those deals…

RTX 50 SUPER delayed talk is back, and it changes the math for anyone trying to time a GPU upgrade. Rumors from Gazlog say NVIDIA has postponed the GeForce RTX 5000 SUPER series indefinitely, even as current RTX 5000 cards stay scarce and expensive. None of this is confirmed by NVIDIA. But if the refresh really is on ice, ask yourself if you can live with today’s pricing and availability, or whether you should hold off longer. Some of the same chatter also claims the RTX 5000 series could remain the main lineup until the RTX 6000 series arrives in…

Google built its empire on media dollars. Now, it’s eyeing the other side of the equation — creativity — with AI as its way in.The signs have been piling up over the last 18 months but the clearest signal yet came last week at the annual Google Cloud Next. In Las Vegas, the giant unveiled an expanded suite of content creation tools: Veo 2 for video, Imagen 3 for images, Lyria for music and the Chirp 3 model for custom voice tech, all designed to turn minimal input into maximum output. Execs did this throughout the event not just by…

WPP has rolled out more than 28,000 AI agents, but scale is only part of the story. The other: how to hardwire control into these systems even before they’re autonomous.That’s the job of Daniel Hulme, the holdco’s chief AI officer. He’s not focused on flashy demos or one-off tools. He’s trying to engineer the infrastructure to keep tens of thousands of AI agents from drifting out of line — inside the company and beyond its digital walls. This isn’t theoretical. WPP is already deploying agents to handle media planning, content generation, analytics and optimization. For now, their capabilities are limited…

A 610Hz QHD gaming monitor panel is the kind of spec that makes even jaded PC gamers pause. If it ships as promised, it could make motion look cleaner during the moments that decide a round, when you’re flicking, tracking, and correcting in a split second. What makes this one notable is the combo. It’s a 27-inch 2560×1440 LCD panel, so it’s chasing extreme speed without dropping down to 1080p. That matters if you like the sharper look of 1440p but still play competitively. It’s still early, though. This is being shown as a panel demo by Tianma at CES…

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra may not look that different from the outside, but a teardown video is revealing some notable engineering changes inside the phone. The disassembly has revealed that Samsung employs a more advanced cooling structure on its latest flagship. In the video shared by the YouTube channel PBKreviews, the company seems to be borrowing ideas from PC-style thermal management by layering multiple cooling materials together to help the phone run cooler. A four-layer cooling setup inside the phone Looking at the teardown, the Galaxy S26 Ultra uses four different thermal elements working together to control heat, which include:…

If the last five years have taught us anything, it’s that chaos may be tough, trying and certainly worrisome — but it’s ultimately manageable. That’s the general sentiment among brand marketers, ad agency execs and industry analysts when you ask them to make sense of the current economic landscape amid tariff back-and-forth. “I’m expecting chaos,” said Jeremy Whitt, executive media director at Hanson Dodge. “One thing I want to make sure that we don’t have too short of a memory of what happened back on March 15, 2020.”  Marketers should remember what happened in the early days of Covid and operate in…