Author: News Room

Smartphone price hikes have been widely predicted for months, but 2026 is now shaping up to be the year those warnings turn into reality. Analysts, leaks, and supply chain reports have all been pointing out how this year will be uniquely bold and worrisome for phone buyers. Now, Nothing CEO Carl Pei has laid out why smartphone prices are rising and why there may be no easy way around it. In a long post on X, Pei said the smartphone industry is facing a shift it has not seen in more than a decade, and it all comes down to…

Google DeepMind’s impressive video generation tool Veo just picked up an update, bringing a long-awaited feature to users. The tool now supports native vertical video output, making it ideal for creating content for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok. In its announcement, Google notes that Veo now lets users generate videos in a 9:16 aspect ratio, eliminating the need to crop or reframe clips for vertical-first platforms. To create portrait videos, users only need to upload a vertical image and Veo will maintain the aspect ratio and orientation. The update also brings improvements to the tool’s Ingredients to Video capabilities,…

Acemagic is tapping into the retro mini PC vibe with a new design that pulls from the Sega Dreamcast and the original PlayStation. It’s a small desktop that looks like it belongs on the same shelf as your old consoles, not hidden behind a monitor. This wasn’t the only throwback on display at CES 2026. Acemagic also brought an NES-inspired mini PC, but the Dreamcast and PlayStation-styled model is the one tied to AMD’s latest platform. If you’re already thinking about buying one, you’ll have to wait. Pricing and a launch date weren’t shared at CES, so for now it’s…

A Dell-tested NVIDIA N1X laptop has popped up again through a test listing leaked on X, and it’s one of the cleaner signals yet that Nvidia’s long-rumored laptop processor plans are getting real attention inside an OEM. What makes this worth your time is the kind of evidence. A dated record tied to an engineering sample suggests hands-on qualification work, not just guesswork from specs watchers. That doesn’t mean you should plan your next upgrade around it. There’s no public launch window here, and the practical stuff, like operating system support and drivers, can decide whether this is a mainstream…

Samsung Display used CES 2026 to show off a foldable OLED that could make the Galaxy Z Fold 8 crease less annoying in daily use. The key claim is simple, the crease depth looks about 20% shallower than the Galaxy Z fold 7. That sort of change matters because the crease is still the first thing your eyes catch on a big bright foldable screen. It can look like a dark trench on videos and games, and it can flash a bright reflection when a light hits the hinge area. Still, this isn’t locked in for the next Galaxy Fold…

You know that annoying moment when you step outside on a sunny day, pull out your phone, and suddenly can’t see a single thing on the screen? You’re squinting, cranking the brightness slider all the way to the max, and watching your battery percentage nosedive in real-time. It’s a struggle we all deal with. Well, a team of researchers over in South Korea might have just fixed that for good, and they managed to do it without turning our sleek phones into bulky bricks. A group from KAIST, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo, just published some pretty massive findings in…

A month-long experiment has raised fresh concerns about the reliability of generative AI tools as sources of news, after Google’s Gemini chatbot was found fabricating entire news outlets and publishing false reports. The findings were first reported by The Conversation, which conducted the investigation. The experiment was led by a journalism professor specialising in computer science, who tested seven generative AI systems over a four-week period. Each day, the tools were asked to list and summarise the five most important news events in Québec, rank them by importance, and provide direct article links as sources. Among the systems tested were…

SpaceX is making steady progress toward building out the pad at NASA’s Cape Canaveral site in Florida for the first Starship launch from the Space Coast. On Tuesday, SpaceX installed the Ship Quick Disconnect (QD) arm on the launch tower at Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A). Space launch enthusiast site NASASpaceflight shared footage of engineers putting the part in place. The Ship QD is a key component of the Starship’s launch tower. It helps to stabilize the 123-meter-tall rocket by clamping onto the first-stage Super Heavy booster’s upper section with huge grippers and pads, aiding the safe and precise stacking of…

Google Home automations are getting a lot smarter, as Google has rolled out a sizable update that expands the building blocks of automations, making routines more flexible than before. If you rely on Google Home to run your lights, appliances, or security setup, this update opens the door to much more precise control. The update introduces around 20 new starter conditions and actions in the Google Home app. Anish Kattukaran, Chief Product Officer for Google Home and Gemini for Home, shared the news in an announcement on X, saying it will enable more detailed and flexible smart home automations. A…

New evidence found in iOS 26.3 beta 2 suggests that end-to-end encryption for RCS messages is nearing reality, nearly a year after Apple first announced its support for the feature. For iPhone users who chat with Android users, this could be a meaningful privacy upgrade. Apple currently supports RCS for richer cross-platform messaging, a feature that arrived with iOS 18. However, those chats still lack the same level of protection as iMessage. That means photos, videos, and texts sent over RCS are not encrypted end-to-end. The latest beta hints that Apple is finally laying the groundwork to change that, bringing…