Every year, Google unveils a new Android version with promises of smarter features, better security, and a more refined user experience. Android 17 is no different. On paper, it sounds like a meaningful upgrade. The update introduces several quality-of-life improvements, tighter privacy controls, and a handful of AI-powered additions that Google believes will make everyday smartphone use…
When Tony Fadell entered New York City’s 28th Street Subway Station, he did not expect to come face-to-face with an advertisement for a product he designed over 20 years ago. But there it was: a five-by-four-foot poster promoting the iPod Shuffle, luring passersby with the…
‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone
June 19, 2026
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey-from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and…
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
The startup launched its messaging-native app on the App Store on Wednesday, allowing users to send AI-powered AR characters through iMessage. Instead of appearing as static media, the characters come to life through the recipient’s iPhone camera, where they can…
Photoshop can now rename and organize layers, resize projects, or swap out a background with a simple text prompt. On June 18, Adobe launched an AI agent across several Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop and Premiere, allowing the long-standing editing programs to…
More than 5,200 photographers entered. Just 48 made the cut. That’s a success rate of less than one per cent. Which makes getting a place in the Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition feel more like getting into an Ivy League university than…
The full-size luxury SUV can drive nearly 600 miles (950 km) without stopping and can recharge in as little as five minutes. BYD launched the flagship Great Tang SUV on Tuesday after preorders exceeded 150,000, its highest so far for a single vehicle.
BYD Great Tang secures a record 150,000 preorders
BYD is known for its ultra-low-cost vehicles, such as the Seagull EV, sold overseas as the…
There’s a new law in Washington state regarding the classification of electric bicycles. But if you want to know what the new law says, you should probably avoid reading the news in Washington.
That’s because most reports seem to be getting the law wrong.
What was…
After a very long wait, Aptera’s solar car is finally rolling and ready for journalist drives. So we headed down to San Diego to check out how development is going on this unique solar electric vehicle.
If you’ve been around the EV industry for a while, you’ve…
With any air left in lungs likely heaving from adrenaline, the crew members may have blown bubbles, feeling which way the small pockets of air traveled against their face. Submerged in darkness and feeling around a cockpit becoming a watery tomb, the direction of the bubbles may have told the disoriented helicopter crew the direction of the only thing that mattered: up.
An attack helicopter went…
