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If you were expecting the PlayStation 6 to arrive on the usual console timeline, it may be time to reset expectations. A new report from Bloomberg suggests Sony is considering pushing back the next PlayStation launch to 2028 or even 2029, a significant shift from the typical seven-year console cycle. Interestingly, this is something that was rumored late last year, too. The reason is not a lack of ambition or demand. It is a global memory chip shortage driven by the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. According to the Bloomberg report, the surge in AI data centers is consuming massive…
Google may soon give one of the best features in Pixel phones a bigger spotlight. The company is working on a dedicated app for Now Playing, the built-in tool that automatically identifies songs playing nearby. This Shazam-like feature shows the song title and artist right on the lock screen and saves a history of tracks your phone has recognized. The key appeal has always been that it runs on the device, meaning songs are identified locally without sending audio clips to the cloud. For Pixel users, Now Playing currently runs as a background service tucked inside Android System Intelligence. It’s…
Apple has just sent out the media invites for an event happening on March 4. Interestingly, the events will be simultaneously held in New York, Shanghai, and London. The company, as usual, hasn’t said anything about the upcoming products, but we might have an idea of what’s coming. What’s coming? “Macs are imminent,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared on X. The outlet also reports that the company has planned a whole slate of refreshed products across the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and the Mac desktop line-up, but there is no clarity on exactly which product is going to be revealed at…
China is officially telling automakers to get a full grip: a complete wheel-style steering wheel. According to a draft from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the country plans to ban “yoke-style” or “half” steering wheels (via CarNewsChina). The ban comes into effect from January 1, 2027, as part of the updated national safety standard (GB 11557-202X). While the documentation doesn’t explicitly name yokes, the new crash-testing requirements make it effectively impossible to pass. China tightens its grip on steering design The updated safety norms require steering wheels to pass an impact test at 10 specific points around…
Researchers from China’s Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics recently unveiled a new EV battery technology aimed at delivering stronger performance in freezing conditions than traditional lithium-ion packs. The so-called “liquid-solid” battery is claimed to retain more than 85% of its capacity after operating for eight hours at -34°C (−29°F), with early tests conducted using industrial-grade drones showing promising results. While this liquid-solid technology has yet to be tested in an electric vehicle, a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has taken a similar step and tested a different EV battery technology designed for sub-zero temperatures using a production…
Google is introducing Gemini-powered Audio Summaries to Google Docs, letting you listen to a shorter AI-generated overview of your document on the go. Think of it as turning long-form documents, such as product manuals, minutes of the meeting, or a quarterly business report, into an audio-only podcast. Audio Summaries generate a short, natural-language recap of the document (typically a couple of minutes long) that retains the key ideas; it is based on Google Gemini. Your Google doc, now in podcast form It offers the gist of the entire document in audio format. You can listen to it while completing your…
If you’ve ever tried to move the cursor in a text field on an Android phone, you’ll know how frustrating it can be to place it exactly where you want it. Gboard helps a little with its glide feature, which lets you press and hold the spacebar and then swipe left or right to adjust the cursor’s position. But even this solution is not perfect. You can easily overshoot the mark while swiping on the spacebar, and the gesture doesn’t let you move up or down through longer blocks of text. Now, Google appears to be working on a new…
Samsung has uploaded yet another Galaxy S26 teaser, offering a glimpse of how the Privacy Display feature could work. It is a 15-second video published via the company’s official YouTube channel. In the teaser, we can see a girl sitting in the subway, reading the third chapter of a fictional novel. She is holding the phone above her lap, which naturally makes the screen accessible from either side. From Flex Magic panel to zero-peeking mode However, when the people sitting around her try to peek at the screen, it goes all black. What’s interesting is that the teaser appears to…
Former NPR host David Greene is suing Google after accusing the tech giant of stealing his voice for use in one of its AI-powered tools. Greene, who presented NPR’s Morning Edition for eight years until 2020 and now hosts the political podcast Left, Right & Center, told the Washington Post he was “completely freaked out” when he heard the voice used by Google’s NotebookLM, a tool that summarizes documents and generates spoken audio overviews — using a voice that sounds very much like his. When friends and family started getting in touch to ask him if the voice was his,…
Asus Vivobook 14 MSRP $649.99 “Asus Vivobook 14 is a good template for serving the best of Windows 11 on an affordable and practically rewarding platter” Pros Solid trackpad and decent keyboard Sufficient selection of ports Decent performance for the price Reliable battery with fast charging Generous memory for 2026 Windows Hello for biometric lock Cons Display could’ve been better Plastic flexes on lid and deck Fan can get noisy Random performance hiccups What makes a good laptop? Well, I can give a pretty haphazard answer to that. But if I were to give a broad verdict, I would say…