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.
Amazon says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold jump from seven states today. The drone carries five pounds and flies about 7.5 miles, which explains a lot about what will actually show up in your yard.
OpenAI’s new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT read, draft and send texts from your Mac. In its own documentation, OpenAI warns against persistent send approval. Here is what the plugin does, why prompt injection makes that warning serious, and how to switch the setting back.
After 13 years, Fairphone is selling a phone directly in the United States. The Gen 6+ costs $649, comes apart with one screwdriver, and carries a five-year warranty. The specs are mid-range on purpose.
Samsung confirmed an August 27 Galaxy event, and the S26 FE is the star. Here is what the leaks say about the Exynos 2500 upgrade, the long list of specs that did not change, and why the price is drifting uncomfortably close to the real flagship.
Privacy researchers are urging women in 13 US states to drop cycle tracking apps. The catch is that uninstalling does nothing to the copy on the company servers. Here is what these apps collect, what actually deletes it, and which apps never send it anywhere.
Stripe’s $7 billion purchase of AI gateway OpenRouter turns a payments giant into the meter and the router for AI traffic. Here is what the deal means for developers, pricing and the future of AI infrastructure.
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.