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Oftentimes my job leads me to get hold of products well before they’re even officially announced. Case in point: I’ve been secretly donning the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro for precisely a week ahead of their Unpacked 2026 public reveal. Thing is, when these earbuds landed on my doorstep at home, I was like, “oh“.

Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 lineup is by no means a reinvention of the popular smartphone brand. Instead, it’s a collection of design tweaks and some important, even one-of-a-kind, under-the-hood updates that could change the way you use your phone. The best features, like the actually unique Privacy Display (a first for mobile phones), are confined

Add VegOut to your Google News feed. “So you just… swipe through pictures of strangers?” my mother asked, peering at my phone with the same suspicious expression she reserves for self-checkout machines. I’d been trying to explain Tinder to her for the past ten minutes, and we’d barely scratched the surface. “But honey,” she said,

Samsung is leaning into its AI phone mantra by adding a third integrated assistant to its new Galaxy S26 lineup, with Perplexity joining Gemini and Bixby as part of its AI OS initiative — and it sounds like it won’t be the last such assistant to join Samsung’s AI roster. Launching first on S26 phones

Samsung has announced that its latest flagship phones, the Galaxy S26 series, are getting a price bump over their S25 predecessors — and while Samsung won’t blame the RAM crisis directly, I don’t feel like I’m going out on a limb when speculating that it’s at least partly to blame. The phones were announced at

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. We are alerting the public to a new scam tactic that has recently been reported in our area. Scammers are contacting individuals and instructing them to download a banking app, often from a bank the person does not use, and to access an account.

Preorders for the new Samsung Galaxy S26 series are officially live today, and as you’d expect, the opening deals are some of the strongest we’ll likely see all year. Whether you’re eyeing the standard Galaxy S26, the larger S26 Plus, or the top-tier S26 Ultra, retailers and carriers are rolling out aggressive incentives to tempt

The pain of higher prices today isn’t limited to things like food and health care costs. Americans now pay nearly 20% more for TV, music, news and other digital apps than they did in 2020. So concludes a recent analysis from DepositAccounts, an online platform owned by LendingTree that allows users to compare bank accounts.

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Tech Advisor reports that Honor unveiled the MagicPad 4, an ultra-slim Android tablet measuring just 4.8mm thick, making it thinner than competing flagship tablets. The device features the first-ever Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip, a 12.3-inch OLED display with 165Hz refresh rate, and a substantial 10,100mAh battery

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Tech Advisor reports that Oura is developing a specialized AI model for women’s health, currently testing in Oura Labs to provide personalized reproductive health advice. The AI chatbot analyzes menstrual cycles, fertility patterns, and biometric data while ensuring user privacy through internal processing without third-party sharing. This

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Tech Advisor highlights Tecno’s innovative modular smartphone concept featuring a sleek 4.9mm aluminum body with magnetic interconnection technology. The device allows ten accessories like power banks and cameras to snap onto eight zones using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and mmWave communication. This concept appears more elegant than previous modular

The rising adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is changing the picture of fuel demand worldwide. As the transport sector becomes a diminishing custom base, oil operators are looking to plug the gap, and charging infrastructure offers a logical solution. Charging infrastructure in APAC’s rapidly growing market offers an even better one. Join us as we

AI-generated image for representation purpose Android users, beware! Several popular mental health apps with around 14.7 million downloads on Google Play Store may be putting your data at risk. According to research by Oversecured (via Bleeping Computer), multiple mental health apps, including AI-based therapy chatbots, contain vulnerabilities that are capable of exposing private therapy conversations,

At the India AI Impact Summit last week, US President Donald Trump’s technology and science adviser Michael Kratsios announced the “Tech Corps” initiative. This is a programme under the Peace Corps framework aimed at promoting American AI technologies overseas and supporting partner nations in adopting advanced systems. The Peace Corps is an independent US government

LG kicked off the year by unveiling a new lineup of gaming monitors, and today the company has priced out the biggest of the bunch. The UltraGear evo G9 (52G930B) is now available for pre-order, and the massive screen will cost just $2,000. Yes, you can buy a perfectly excellent gaming monitor for much less,

Apple is rolling out new age assurance tools for developers in regions including Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and parts of the US, as new App Store restrictions for 18+ apps take effect in select markets. Here are the details. Some of the changes will apply starting today From Apple’s Developer blog: Today we’re providing an update

UiPath and ServiceNow will profit from the soaring demand for AI agents. Agentic AI applications can accomplish specific tasks with minimal human supervision. Yet only 5% of enterprise apps integrated AI agents in 2025, according to Gartner (IT +2.29%), suggesting that most companies were wary about replacing their human workers with bots. However, Gartner expects

With a database of smartphone signal fingerprints, researchers developed a way to confirm a phone is “trusted” and has not been altered. From the Journal: AIP Advances (Left) The custom measurement test bed. (Right) Some of the test smartphones used for creating the fingerprint library. Credit: Améya Ramadurgakar, NIST WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2026 — With