Samsung has released two Android 17-based One UI 9 beta updates for the Galaxy S26 series, and it’s even testing One UI 9 for the unannounced Galaxy S26 FE. Now we hear the brand has started internal testing for the Galaxy S25 series smartphones as well. We don’t know the build version of One UI … Read More “Samsung starts testing One UI 9 for the Galaxy S25 series” »
Shimul Sood / Android Authority Earlier this year, I bought the Synology BeeStation Plus. Since then, it has become the digital hub of my home — it stores thousands of my photos and videos, keeps important documents in one place, and even doubles as a Plex Media Server. In fact, I’ve reached a point where … Read More “Before you drop Google Photos for a NAS, know these 5 things” »
Pros Unique concentric circle design allows for limitless patterns and color changes Chatbot-style prompts work surprisingly well for offering ambient light based on moods, themes and subjects Prompts offer multiple generated patterns to explore Voice and typing options available for prompts Music syncing and DIY mode expand potential Very easy to set up Relatively affordable … Read More “I Commanded This Smart Light to Change Based on My Mood, and I Liked It” »
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority One of my favorite Google TV features is undoubtedly the screensaver. Wait, isn’t that just a logo bouncing around a screen? Not quite. Ambient Mode, as it’s officially called, can display images from sources such as NASA, Getty, and Google Arts & Culture. It prevents screen burn-in while transforming my … Read More “Google TV’s screensaver is nice, but where oh where is my native Photos app?” »
Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal Alps between Austria and Italy in September 1991. Credit: Paul Hanny/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal Alps between Austria and Italy in September 1991. Credit: … Read More “Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing” »
The work at Include Security has us working with AI day in and day out (hacking it, using it, training it, etc). We’re all aware of the community-level opposition happening against datacenters, aimed at improving AI capabilities, being built recently. What you might not be aware of are the distributed efforts to train AI that … Read More “The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy” »
Ryan Haines / Android Authority Smartphone cameras have evolved at a breakneck pace over the last decade. From multiple camera arrays to massive 1-inch sensors and ever-improving computational pipelines, the hardware is all there to enable top-tier photography. Yet, despite the best camera smartphones housing hardware that rivals dedicated high-end cameras from a few years … Read More “The 6 photography tricks I use to take better photos” »
WWDC 2026 is Tim Cook’s final Swan Song ahead of him leaving the firm later this year, and it gives him one opportunity to scrub clean one of the biggest blemishes on his time at Apple: the botched launch of the redesigned, smarter Siri. Now don’t misunderstand me; Tim Cook has been a force to … Read More “Tim Cook’s final WWDC is looking pretty Siri-ous” »
Stephen Radochia / Android Authority I love clamshell folding phones. They’re the ideal form factor for casual users who want to try out a foldable for the first time. You’re not asking people to change how they use their phone. You simply open it up, do everything you’ve been doing for the last 15 years … Read More “There’s only one I’d choose” »
Most mobile contracts treat data like a fixed commodity – you pick an allowance, pay for it every month, and hope you chose correctly back when you signed up a year or two ago. That inflexibility is exactly what Sky Mobile was built to push back against, and right now its 10GB plan is available … Read More “This Sky Mobile deal gets you 10GB of data for only £8 a month” »
