Author: Geek Planet

As marketing agencies and brands embrace AI’s agentic era, demand for AI agent developers is rising. Following the emergence of the chief AI officer, both indie marketing agencies and holding companies are competing to hire staff with the skills and the attitude to put theory into practice.  “We need to bring people in who are incredibly fluent and kind of early adopters of AI tools, and who can develop agents,” said Shannon Moorman, WPP’s global head of talent attraction. “Over time, we want everyone in the company to be fluent in developing agents and conversant in these tools. But we have…

The iPhone 16e might not be the most modern-looking iPhone on the market, but it surely offers some excellent specifications (I said some). This year, Apple will improve its affordable handset with a set of significant upgrades, giving it a modern look and feel and making it as fast as the iPhone 17. Digital Chat Station, a Chinese tipster, claims that the iPhone 17e “will debut in the first half of the year” in a Weibo post. While that could be anytime between January and June, the iPhone 16e’s launch timeline could help narrow the launch window. A familiar launch…

With 48 participating nations, 104 matches and 16 host cities, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the biggest one yet — and brands and retailers want in on the hype. While the World Cup is more than seven months away, tickets are already on sale, and companies are getting involved now. Adidas, one of the official partners of the games, debuted its official Trionda game ball in October and rolled out home kits for 22 partner federations — including Italy, Mexico and Spain — this month. Nike is putting the finishing touches on “an exciting new apparel innovation platform” and “several…

Apple has set the tech industry on a non-stop chatter mode with its hot Google deal. After missing out on the early AI hype, and stopgap coupling with ChatGPT, Apple is finally putting Gemini (a customized version without any branding) in the driver’s seat. The idea is to fix Siri, Apple Intelligence, and the whole Foundation Models package.  So, what does that mean for you? For starters, Siri will be as chatty and smart as ChatGPT or Gemini. It will no longer run into situations where it asks to offload your queries to ChatGPT. And hopefully, it will finally gain…

A 34-inch curved ultrawide gaming monitor usually means a serious hit to your wallet. Right now, though, the Acer Nitro ED340CUR is down to $209.99, which is half off its regular $419.99 price. For a QHD 21:9 panel with a fast refresh rate, that is very close to budget money for something that still feels properly premium on a desk. What you’re getting The Nitro ED340CUR is a 34-inch, 1500R curved, 21:9 QHD (3440 x 1440) monitor, so you’re getting that wraparound feel that standard 16:9 screens just don’t match. The extra horizontal space is great for racing games, open-world…

A downloadable audio file is available from Humanize of an interview with Olivier Bonnassies, author with Michel-Yves Bolloré of God: the Science, the Evidence (2025), which just became available this fall in English. In God: The Science, The Evidence, Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bollore argue that science is in the midst of a “great reversal” in which the supposedly incompatible realms are becoming mutually reinforcing. Bonnassies is a science writer, an entrepreneur, and a graduate of Polytechnique and the Institute of Catholique de Paris. An unbeliever until the age of twenty, he is the author of books, videos, scripts, articles, newsletters,…

A lot of tech companies talk about impact in terms of scale or profit. Ride-hailing platform inDrive is talking about justice. The world’s second most downloaded mobility app recently launched “Positions of Purpose,” a global hiring campaign to recruit senior leaders in the areas of child protection, education and good governance. It’s an unconventional move that brings the company’s founding mission — challenging injustice — into the executive ranks. The company made its name by disrupting ride-hailing with a fairness-first model that lets drivers and riders negotiate fares directly with consumers. Now it’s extending that same principle of transparency to how it…

While there hasn’t been a significant breakthrough in computer input devices like keyboards, Lenovo could change that at CES 2026. According to a report by Windows Latest, the company is working on a self-charging keyboard and mouse combo, another translucent combo, and an adaptive smart keyboard. The most unique product in the leaks is something called the “Lenovo Self-Charging Kit Concept.” It reportedly harvests energy from low indoor lighting (as low as 50 lux) and charges itself as you use it indoors. Although this technology is similar to Logitech’s solar-powered keyboards, it also works without direct sunlight. To give you…

Next year’s FIFA World Cup stands to be the largest spectator event in history. And Unilever, one of the planet’s largest advertisers with a total marketing budget of $10.1 billion in 2024, is determined to capitalize on the billions watching.“Next year is the biggest sporting event that’s ever going to happen. It’s taking place in our biggest market. We will be making absolutely every effort to make it the biggest thing we’ve done,” said Chris Barron, Unilever’s general manager for personal care in the U.K. and Ireland, and vp of deodorants in Europe. The company’s execs are currently planning how…

A security warning is a nasty surprise, especially when the add-on in question claims it exists to protect your privacy. Researchers at Koi Security say Urban VPN Proxy, a VPN extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, began logging users’ AI assistant conversations and sending them to a data broker. Urban VPN Proxy looked reputable, with a 4.7-star rating, Google’s featured badge, and more than six million installs on Chrome. Another 1.3 million people installed it on Edge. But Koi says the extension’s behavior changed after a quiet update on July 9, 2025, when the publisher shipped version 5.5.0. From…