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.
DoorDash has opened a US waitlist for an AI agent that takes orders inside Apple Messages, reads a photo of your fridge, suggests what to cook and checks out with the card already on your account. Roughly 20,000 testers are in. Bloomberg’s look at an early build found prices that did not match the app.
Garmin sells more than a dozen watches and the names blur together. Here is how the Vivoactive 6, Venu 4, Forerunner 970 and Fenix 9 stack up on price, battery life and who each one suits.
Tavus says its new Griffin model is the first to pass a live video Turing test, with 48% of people believing they had just spoken to a real human. Its own previous system managed 2%. Here is what the study actually measured, how the model works, and why the fraud risk arrives before the product does.
Only one mainstream smartwatch has FDA-cleared apps that track Parkinson’s tremor and dyskinesia. Here is what it does, what it costs, and where it falls short.
A Special Operations analyst asked a chatbot to read a Chinese ship’s manifest. It invented a nuclear cargo claim, a second AI pass formatted it as an official intelligence report, and US aircraft were in the air before anyone checked where it came from.
An executive order directs every federal agency to say “Super Intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” The capabilities do not change, the statutory definition carries over, and the term already has a precise and very different meaning in AI research.
Google’s guaranteed update window for the Pixel Watch 2 closes on October 1, 2026. Here is what stops, what keeps working, and your realistic upgrade options.
ElevenLabs closed a $300 million employee tender at a $22 billion valuation, double its February round. Here is what the numbers say about voice AI.
Samsung raised US list prices across the Galaxy S26 line on October 1, roughly seven months after the phones went on sale, with the 1TB Ultra jumping $200. South Korea got the same increase on the same day. Nothing about the hardware changed, and the widely reported Galaxy S27 price leak turns out to describe today’s numbers rather than next year’s.
Google’s Health Guardian is rolling out to Pixel Watch 3, 4 and 5 at no extra cost, while Fitbit Air owners will need Google Health Premium. Here is what each feature does, what it costs over five years, and where it falls short.