Android 17’s first big update locks in a fitness tracking upgrade for your Pixel
Google pushed out Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 on July 1, 2026, and the most useful change in it is not the headline feature. It…
Chrome just patched 15 critical bugs that could hand hackers your browser
Google pushed Chrome 151 to the stable channel on June 30, 2026, and the update closes 382 security holes, 15 of them rated critical. That…
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro is heading for a price hike and the memory chip math explains why
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro is heading into a significant price increase this September, and the driving force has nothing to do with a redesign. A…
ChatGPT has a new voice mode that can hear you while it is still talking
OpenAI is rolling out a new voice model for ChatGPT called Bidi 1, and early testing shows it works in a way that the current…
BET+ is shutting down and Paramount+ is the more expensive way to keep watching
BET+ is shutting down as a standalone streaming service. Paramount, which completed its full acquisition of BET+ after buying out Tyler Perry Studios’ stake earlier…
I spent a week with Chrome Canary on Android to see which AI features actually work right now
Chrome Canary on Android updates every day. Most builds add nothing you would notice. But over the past few weeks, a handful of AI features…
Google’s Pixel Watch update fixes Raise to Talk and adds wrist-level audio control
Google’s June Pixel Watch update fixes Raise to Talk, the Gemini activation gesture that Pixel Watch 4 users have reported as unreliable since the watch…
Reddit Answers throws an ‘Unknown streaming error’ and most people misread what it means
The first time Reddit Answers returned “Unknown streaming error,” I hit “Try again” twice before accepting that wasn’t going to help. The label says nothing…
Chrome is removing the last loophole for uBlock Origin and the replacement is not the same
Chrome 150, releasing June 30, removes the last flag that was keeping full uBlock Origin functional in the browser. A Google engineer confirmed the change…
Switching from Chrome to Edge on Windows took longer than I expected
I switched from Chrome to Edge, expecting it to take an afternoon. It took closer to a week before the experience felt natural, and another…