Author: News Room
In 2026, the smart glasses conversation is mostly dominated by a handful of names: Meta, Samsung, and Google. There are other companies that already have products in the market, but they might not have thought about competition from this PC and laptop brand that has suddenly entered the market.I’m talking about Acer. The company has quietly dropped two pairs of glasses ahead of Computex 2026, and neither of them looks like an experiment. What can Acer’s wired AR headset do? Out of the two smart glasses, the AR Vision GR0 is the more immersive one. It connects to your phone,…
The race to build the next great affordable laptop is heating up, and Acer thinks it has a strong contender. The company today unveiled the Swift Air 14, a thin-and-light Windows laptop that combines a premium design, AI-ready hardware, and impressive battery claims for a starting price of just $699. At a time when even mainstream laptops are creeping toward four-figure price tags, Acer’s latest machine feels refreshingly straightforward. It’s aimed at students, remote workers, and anyone who wants a laptop that looks and feels expensive without draining their bank account. The Swift Air 14 is powered by Intel’s new…
Meta’s ambitions for smart glasses are no secret anymore. The company has spent the past few years convincing people that AI belongs on their face. Now, if a new report is accurate, it wants to move even closer to them. According to a report from The Information, Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to begin testing over the next year. The wearable would join an increasingly crowded lineup of AI hardware, but unlike smart glasses, this device may spend its days quietly listening from around your neck. That idea sounds familiar because it is. Meta acquired AI…
Gaming handhelds have become surprisingly expensive. Between premium models like the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go, getting a portable gaming machine often means spending hundreds of dollars before you’ve even bought a game. Acer’s latest idea takes a very different approach. Announced alongside a flood of new products, the Nitro Blaze Link is a handheld gaming device that doesn’t actually run games itself. Instead, it streams them from a compatible gaming laptop, turning your Predator or Nitro notebook into a personal gaming server. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the concept isn’t entirely new. Tools like…
Scanning documents from a phone has always been a frustrating experience, especially on Android smartphones. You’ve to scan one page at a time, blurry captures you don’t notice until after, or accidentally hovering over the same page twice; all these issues bother users on a day-to-day basis. Well, Google Drive’s new document scanner redesign fixes all three problems at once. Announced by Sameer Samat, the President of Android Ecosystem at Google, the feature is now rolling out for Android users. What’s actually new in the Google Drive scanner? The biggest change, in my opinion, is Smart Batch Scanning. Instead of…
The last time a selfie camera really impressed me was the iPhone 17’s Center Stage front camera, but no Android manufacturer even comes close. It looks like smartphone makers have forgotten the front cameras, as there has been no serious innovation in the last few years. Well, Oppo might change that arrangement this year. Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (via Weibo) claims that Oppo is testing a 100MP square-format front camera sensor for its purported Find X10 series. If it makes the cut to a commercial release, the Find X10 would be the first Android smartphone to ship with a…
For years, AI assistants have mostly lived in chat windows. You ask a question, they answer it, and the interaction ends there. Google appears ready to push that idea much further with Gemini Spark, a new AI agent that is now rolling out to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. So, instead of opening multiple apps and manually managing tasks, you hand the job to Gemini Spark and let it work in the background. According to Google, Gemini Spark can operate autonomously across your digital ecosystem, handling tasks even when your phone or laptop is turned off. Users…
Elon Musk has been promising a fully autonomous Tesla for the better part of a decade. If you believe him, that future is right around the corner. But a new Reuters investigation suggests the people closest to the technology, the ones actually training it, want nothing to do with it. Hundreds of Tesla workers spend their days watching footage captured by cars running Full Self-Driving. They watch cats, dogs, and deer getting struck without the car braking, near-misses with children, and Teslas blowing through speed limits by 20 to 30 mph. Things seem dire, and yet Elon Musk keeps telling…
The Hulu app might not be dead right now. But Disney might be working behind the scenes to make you want to use it less. Disney’s streaming tech teams are working on a multi-phase plan called Project Gemini, which aims on bringing more of Hulu’s content and features into Disney+. The reports claims that the unified experience is expected to be finished by the end of the year, based on a leaked internal document and two streaming employees. However, Disney told Business Insider that there are “no current plans to sunset” the standalone Hulu app. This isn’t the first time…
Google has quietly shipped one of the more meaningful browser security updates, and chances are you’ll never notice it’s there, which, I think, is the entire point. Device Bound Session Credentials, or DBSC, is now available in Chrome on Windows for all Google Workspace users, including Individual subscribers and users with personal accounts. The feature is enabled by default, so that you don’t have to fiddle with any settings. What is DBSC and why does it matter? Every time you log into a website, your browser stores a small file called a session cookie for subsequent visits, so you don’t…