Author: Marcus Bennett
Marcus Bennett is GeekBlog's Android expert, covering everything from Google's Pixel line and Samsung Galaxy flagships to OnePlus, Nothing, Xiaomi and the broader Android ecosystem. He follows each Android OS release, One UI and Pixel Feature Drop, custom ROMs and the foldable wave, translating spec sheets and beta builds into hands-on guidance for readers choosing their next Android phone, tablet or wearable.
Google has started using machine learning on search topics and YouTube viewing habits to estimate whether Canadian account holders are under 18. There is no opt-out, and adults flagged by mistake are asked for a government ID or a selfie.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 can run a 30-billion-parameter AI model entirely on-device, no cloud needed, but it launches as memory costs push flagship Android prices past $1,000.
The Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max launched with a hardware level privacy display that narrows the screen’s viewing angle in the panel itself, two 200MP Leica cameras, rear screens that now run AI built mini apps, and batteries up to 8,500mAh. They are also the first phones to split Qualcomm’s new two tier flagship chip.
Garmin’s Q3 2026 software update brings free fall detection, an “OK Garmin” voice wake word, and adaptive coaching, but only to a specific list of watches. Here is who gets what.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22 at half the price of GPT-5.6. On the headline coding benchmarks, Sol actually scores lower than the model it replaces. Here is why that is the point.
Ema’s $77 million Series B more than quadruples its 2024 valuation on a thesis that enterprise SaaS apps are turning into mere databases once AI agents do the actual work on top of them.
Qualcomm split its flagship into the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Both are 2nm and both pass 5GHz, but the Matrix Cores and the full 18MB of GPU memory only ship on one of them. Here is every difference that matters.
Keyword Planner has ranked ideas by relevance since 2019. Here is how that ordering, the Refine keywords panel, filters and ad group grouping work today.
How to segment, cap, sequence and exclude remarketing audiences across Google Ads, GA4, Meta and email, plus what Chrome cookies and consent rules mean in 2026.
A practical playbook for A/B testing marketing campaigns, from hypothesis and sample size math to Google Ads experiments, Meta A/B tests and a test plan template.