Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Gemini arrived late to the party where ChatGPT was already a star. Even up until recently, the Gemini app, both on the desktop and mobile, was pretty basic. It simply lets you create new chats and talk about the subject matter — without any memory of your past chats … Read More “I didn’t expect it, but Gemini Notebooks made me rethink ChatGPT” »
Month: April 2026
1: Intelligentsia House Blend Trendy Intelligentsia coffee isn’t worth the steep price. Katherine Peach/CNET Intelligentsia is a Chicago-founded roaster that’s become a widespread specialty coffee brand in grocery stores coast to coast. At $20 for a 12-ounce bag of whole beans at my local Brooklyn grocery store, Intelligentsia House Blend coffee can be considered an … Read More “The 5 Best Grocery Store Coffee Beans, Out of More Than 15 I Tested” »
Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu, and washu.edu, the official domains for the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Subdomains … Read More “Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.” »
Cohere, the Canada-based enterprise AI unicorn, announced Friday that it would merge with the Germany-based enterprise AI company Aleph Alpha. The deal, which has yet to close, will value the newly formed company at $20 billion, the FT reported. Schwarz Group, one of Aleph Alpha’s top backers, will also invest $600 million in Cohere’s Series E round, … Read More “Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority Quick Share is a useful but flawed feature. Quickly sharing files between your Android, Windows, and even iOS devices is incredibly convenient. Sadly, it’s not the most reliable tool in the world. It’s often slow to detect devices and transfer files, and prone to disconnections. Thankfully, there’s a far better … Read More “Better than Quick Share and AirDrop” »
Apple released iOS 26.1 in November, and it brought a handful of new features to your iPhone, like Background Security Improvements. One of the biggest changes the update introduced to your iPhone was a way to adjust some Liquid Glass elements across your device. This new setting could help resolve readability issues some folks on Reddit noted in iOS … Read More “How to Change Liquid Glass Design Settings in iOS 26” »
Dummy units have leaked today showing the shapes of the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Ultra (which is the name the iPhone Fold is rumored to actually get). The dummy units are created based on CAD renders sent to case makers, so they are usually accurate with the most important … Read More “iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Ultra dummy units leak” »
Joe Maring / Android Authority Multiview is one of my favorite YouTube TV features. Being able to watch two, three, or four channels at once is such a huge perk (especially during football season). And as of recently, multiview just got a huge upgrade. Previously, you could only use multiview with channel combinations that YouTube … Read More “How to create a fully customizable multiview” »
If leaks are to be believed, then the rumoured iPhone Fold may re-introduce an iPhone feature we all thought was long-gone. Newly surfaced dummy units of the so-called iPhone Fold (or iPhone Ultra) suggest Apple is bringing back Touch ID, and rethinking how you’ll actually use the device day to day. According to the leaked units, the foldable iPhone will … Read More “iPhone Fold dummy units leak, and Touch ID could be making a comeback” »
Adam Birney / Android Authority Earlier this year, I completed my Samsung ecosystem with a Galaxy Book 4 Edge — and one of the things I loved most about the experience was the features Samsung had added on top of Windows 11. Specifically, all of the deep integrations it offered with my Samsung phone. Having … Read More “Every Samsung user needs this” »