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.
A demo video for unreleased camera-equipped AirPods shipped inside the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate, complete with a Visual Intelligence walkthrough and a warning screen about hair covering the lens. The codename is B790, and the timeline just moved up by a year.
Microsoft has started merging its consumer and business Copilot apps into one, and on August 18 it retires Podcasts, consumer Deep Research, Group Chat and Mico. Here is exactly what disappears, what survives, and which one has no export button at all.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster using Cerebras wafer-scale chips instead of Nvidia GPUs. Here’s what it means for the AI speed race.
An internal Google DeepMind memo tells applicants there is a “non-trivial probability” their CV will be screened out incorrectly, and points them to a separate form that a human will actually read. Google says the system works fine.
Stockholm’s Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, double what it was worth in December. The revenue growth behind it is real. The harder question is what happens to everyone selling software when describing an app is enough to build one.
Nvidia signed agreements with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. The structure is clever, and the criticism it is drawing has a long history behind it.
Apple’s fall 2026 event is tipped to bring the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max and its first foldable, while the standard iPhone 18 slides to spring 2027. Here is why Apple split the lineup in two, the dates worth marking, and what it means if you were planning to upgrade this year.
Fresh off The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan is telling film fans to buy discs instead of renting access. The ownership argument is familiar. The picture quality gap between a 4K UHD disc and a 4K stream is bigger than most people realize.
Bloomberg reports that Apple’s design team has spent the past year exploring a round Apple Watch, cheaper and pricier tiers, and a wearable with no screen at all. Here is what is actually on the table, what ships in September, and why smart rings forced the conversation.