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.
Apple never publishes battery capacities, but EU energy labels force the issue. The filings show the iPhone 18 Pro Max cell grew 11.8 percent while the iPhone 18 Pro gained just 68mAh.
Burgundy is the hero color of the iPhone 18 Pro, and Poco, Tecno, Huawei and Xiaomi already have phones in nearly the same shade. Nobody copied anything in two days. The real timeline started in spring, and it says a lot about how phones are sold now.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Nvidia structured its Groq deal specifically to avoid antitrust review. It is the first real legal test of a loophole Big Tech has used to spend more than $20 billion without filing a single merger notice.
IDScan.net has confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud environment, nine days after a dark web marketplace began advertising more than 153 million driver’s license scans. Here is what was taken and what actually helps.
Samsung spent Apple’s keynote live posting jokes about the iPhone Duo, including a line about reheating its leftovers. The spec sheets tell a closer story.
A joint NSA, CISA and FBI advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI in an industrial-scale campaign to extract billions of tokens from US frontier AI models, and tells providers to quietly serve them weaker answers.
YouTube has relaxed its advertiser friendly rules for violent gameplay ahead of GTA 6, splitting every video into three timing zones that decide whether it earns full ad revenue, limited ads or nothing.
Google has rolled out a DMA mandated redesign of search results across the EU, stripping live hotel and flight prices and calling it the largest quality drop in the company’s 29 year history.
XPeng’s IRON humanoid robot autonomously walked off a Guangzhou production line on September 8, aiming for mass output before Tesla’s delayed Optimus.