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Google rolled out a one-click Gemini Google Sheets formula fixer today, giving users a way to diagnose and repair broken formulas without leaving the cell or writing a prompt. When an error appears, a single click prompts Gemini to return both a plain-English explanation of the problem and a corrected formula ready to drop in, Android Authority reported. The catch: the feature is locked to paid tiers, and Google's own benchmark evidence doesn't directly measure what the tool actually does.

Apple's Beta 2 release notes for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate confirm that the AirPort Utility app is going away, 9to5Mac reported today. The app has been the only management tool for AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, and AirPort Time Capsule hardware since Apple discontinued that product line in 2018, according to MacRumors. Eight years of post-discontinuation software support is ending this fall.

Your work Google Calendar and your personal iCloud Calendar don't talk to each other. Accept a dentist appointment on the personal side, and your work calendar still shows that hour as free. Accept a last-minute team meeting at work, and anything checking your personal availability has no idea. The Fantastical calendar mirroring feature, which shipped in today's update, targets that structural gap by automatically copying events from one calendar into another based on rules you define, 9to5Mac...

Apple's most capable voice-to-text upgrade in iOS 27 shipped switched off in the first developer beta, and the vast majority of iPhones that support Apple Intelligence can't run it at all. Advanced Dictation Preview delivers sharply better transcription accuracy with automatic punctuation and capitalization, but the feature requires at least 12GB of RAM a threshold only the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air clear, per MacRumors and TechSpot. One note on sourcing: 9to5Mac names...

Apple has formally approved Samsung Display to begin manufacturing foldable OLED panels for its first foldable iPhone, a concrete supply-chain milestone that moves the device from persistent rumor into active component production. Samsung has already activated a portion of its Vietnam back-end facility to fill an initial order of roughly 3 million panels, with approximately 50 of the facility's 80 production lines now running, The Elec reported today.

Tamil Nadu health authorities are still investigating water contamination complaints near Tata Electronics' iPhone components factory in Hosur, even after Tata said on June 16 that the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board had dropped further action tied to its show-cause notice. The key distinction is where the samples were taken: Tata's clean results came from inside the plant, while unresolved findings involve farmland and wells outside it.

Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station claims Samsung is testing its Privacy Display technology for the Galaxy S27 Pro, according to SamMobile's report on the leak. The feature currently ships exclusively on the Galaxy S26 Ultra. If the Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro privacy screen rumor holds, it would mark the first time the technology has moved beyond a single SKU in Samsung's lineup.

Poplar Group, the media relations firm that had handled Trump Mobile's T1 Phone press operation since at least June 2025, is no longer working with the company. Poplar founding partner Chris Walker told The Verge on June 19, 2026, that his team is "not assisting Trump Mobile any further" and said he did not know whether a replacement firm had been retained.

Microsoft has shipped Outlook for Mac version 16.110, bringing a full Liquid Glass visual overhaul and native PST file import to the app. Both changes are live now through the Mac App Store. This Microsoft Outlook for Mac update marks two significant shifts at once: the app finally looks like it belongs on macOS, and it can now directly import email archives that previously required workarounds to access on Mac.

Samsung has officially acknowledged the Exynos 2700 for what appears to be the first time, with an executive stating development is on track and the chip is headed for "top-tier" smartphones, Android Authority reported this week. The Galaxy S27 was not named specifically, but Samsung's flagship chips have always debuted on the Galaxy S series, making the connection a reasonable inference rather than a stated commitment.

Google has confirmed it deliberately removed Live Guide background playback from YouTube TV on certain devices, cutting a feature that let subscribers keep a live channel running while browsing upcoming programming. The change is intentional, no app setting restores it, and Google's stated rationale doesn't fully account for all the hardware where users are reporting the loss including Roku devices, based on user reports cited by multiple outlets last week.

Microsoft pushed Windows 11 Insider Preview build 28120.2315 to Experimental (26H1) channel testers last Thursday, carrying two documented fixes: a Live Captions style responsiveness improvement and a reliability update to the inbox HD Audio driver. The release lands two weeks after Microsoft restructured its 26H1 pre-release program, and the contrast between what Experimental and Beta testers received this cycle tells you something about how the new structure is working.

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Three Google system components on Samsung Galaxy phones have pending updates that do not appear on the Play Store's "Manage apps & device" screen, the same screen most users check to confirm everything is current. The components are Android System SafetyCore, Android System WebView, and Google Play Services. Both SamMobile and Android Authority confirmed the available updates today. Each one requires a separate manual check to find and install.

ETOE opened pre-orders today for the Dolphin 2, a portable Google TV projector that combines a 54Wh built-in battery with certified Google TV, bringing Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, and Disney+ without any external streaming hardware. Early-bird pricing sits at $927 in the US and €799 in Europe through June 28, with units shipping in early July, according to the ETOE press release.

A software bug in Android 17 is causing erratic touchscreen behavior on Pixel phones, with users reporting screens that stop responding to touch entirely or scroll in the opposite direction of their swipe. Google has acknowledged the Android 17 Pixel touch input bug through its official PixelCommunity Reddit account and says it is actively working on a fix, but has not identified the root cause or provided a patch timeline, Android Authority reported today.

Apple confirmed two Apple Music iOS 27 design changes at WWDC 2026 refreshed artist pages and refreshed album pages listing both on its official iOS 27 overview slide. As of today, only one exists in the real world. The artist page redesign is live and testable in the current developer beta. Album pages are not, 9to5Mac confirmed today.

Alogic unveiled three new product lines at InfoComm 2026 today, extending its Mac touchscreen display lineup across desk, travel, and enterprise use cases. The additions are the FOKUS large-format interactive panels, the Aspekt Touch 27-inch desktop monitor, and the Folio and Folio Duo portable displays, with pricing running from $899 to $3,999, MacRumors reports. The catch common to all of them: macOS still has no native touch support, so every display in the lineup depends on Alogic's driver...

Spotify this week launched Track Reactions, a feature that lets collaborators respond to individual songs in shared playlists using emoji visible to every playlist member. Announced on the Spotify Community blog, the feature closes a loop that has been open since collaborative playlists existed: until now, adding a song generated no quick in-playlist reaction.

NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo launched the NTS Radio Player today, a compact Wi-Fi streamer purpose-built for NTS's curated channels and continuously running mixtapes, designed to connect directly to speakers and amplifiers you already own. The practical question it raises: does dedicated hardware make NTS meaningfully better than casting from your phone to whatever speaker is nearby, The Verge reported today.

Microsoft's release health page for Windows 11 version 26H1 currently lists no active known issues and no recently resolved ones at the time of this writing. Understanding the difference matters if you manage a Windows fleet, evaluate hardware procurement, or are simply trying to figure out which release health pages are worth monitoring right now.

Samsung has launched five new gaming monitors under the 2026 Odyssey name, headlined by what the company calls the industry's first 6K gaming monitor. The Samsung 2026 Odyssey G8 and G7 lineup is on sale now at prices from $949.99 to $1,599.99, per Samsung's U.S. Newsroom. No independent panel testing was available at publication; buyers are working from specs alone.

Multiple leaks point to higher prices on premium storage tiers, not a blanket increase. The $1,999 entry price may hold. The Flip 8 picture is murkier.

Global smartwatch shipments fell 2% year over year in Q1 2025, while Samsung's shipments dropped 18%, according to Counterpoint data reported by Android Central. That was not just a bad quarter for wearables. China's smartwatch market grew 37% in the same period, and Huawei and Xiaomi both posted shipment gains.

Google has ended production of the Nest Mini and Nest Audio. A single $99.99 Google Home Speaker now replaces both devices, which means Google's smart speaker lineup no longer has anything below $99.99, roughly $50 more than the Nest Mini's $49 entry price, according to SoundGuys. The Nest Mini and Nest Audio are discontinued: two products gone, one replacement announced, and a meaningful gap left at the affordable end of the market.

YouTube is testing a new video player layout on Android that removes text labels from every button beneath the video, repositions the like count away from the like button, and moves Save and Download into an overflow menu. The test has surfaced on a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and a OnePlus 15, both running app version 21.23.487, while other Android 16 devices on the same version kept the older layout, Android Authority reported yesterday. Reddit posts from a few weeks prior flagged the same...

Samsung appears to have briefly posted a full product page for the unannounced Galaxy A27 5G on its Czech Republic website before pulling it down. The listing, according to Los40, citing SamMobile, makes months of Galaxy A27 5G renders look far less speculative: It points to a cleaner design, a Snapdragon chip, four color options, six OS upgrades and six years of security updates, and one notable durability downgrade.

Apple is adding a "Hide Location" option to Find My in iOS 27 that lets users pause location sharing with a specific person until the end of the day. Based on hands-on beta testing by MacRumors, the person whose access is paused receives no notification or alert that anything has changed. The no-notification behavior, if it holds through to the final release, would make the pause effectively invisible to the other person.

Apple Notes is gaining clipboard-level Markdown support in iOS 27, a change that removes a persistent friction point for anyone who moves text between Notes and external writing tools. Pasted Markdown converts automatically to rich text, and note content can be exported as raw Markdown syntax through a new edit menu option, 9to5Mac reported. That combination, along with native divider lines and several UI refinements, lands at iOS 27's general release. The AI-related additions operate on a...

The gym keyfob. The regional theater membership. The coffee shop loyalty card. The paper ticket for a summer food festival. None of these ever qualified for Apple Wallet's official ecosystem. You carried the physical card, or you went without.

Google Health version 5.02 is rolling out, bringing back Hourly Activity, the hourly step-goal charts that disappeared when the app was redesigned. The Google Health 5.02 update also adds improved nap tracking and easier Key Metrics reordering on Android. It's the second meaningful release in under three weeks, and it delivers on a specific public commitment Google made in late May.

Google is moving WhatsApp backup controls out of WhatsApp's own menus and into Android's system settings. A Play services update rolling out today, v26.23, will let users manage WhatsApp chat backups in Android settings directly, placing those controls alongside the phone's other backup options rather than buried inside the app, Android Authority reported.

Apple plans to raise prices, but CEO Tim Cook did not say which products will get more expensive, when the increases will happen, or by how much. But in a Wall Street Journal interview published June 17, he made one thing clear: Apple can no longer shield buyers from surging memory and storage costs.

Google started rolling out two Google Vids updates on June 17, 2026: users can now extend existing Veo clips into longer sequences with consistent characters and start multiple video generations at the same time instead of waiting for each one to finish, according to Google Workspace Updates. The features are available across a wide range of eligible Google Workspace, education, consumer, nonprofit, and add-on accounts, though access still depends on Google's plan eligibility rules.

Vivo executive Han Boxiao announced on Weibo this week that the X Fold 6 will carry a 7,000mAh battery, making it one of the largest batteries ever confirmed for a foldable phone, according to Android Authority. That's a direct statement from inside the company, eight days before the phone launches in China on June 26 not a leak, not a certification estimate.

Leaked specs for the Redmi K100 Pro surfaced earlier this month, pointing to a battery capacity somewhere north of 9,000mAh, a 200MP main camera, and an Apple-inspired design with full water resistance, according to GSMArena. The K100 family is expected around September. That timeline matters because it follows directly from what Xiaomi already built: the Redmi K90 Max, launched two months ago as the company's first gaming phone with a built-in cooling fan.

UC San Diego researchers are building a mini data center from 2,000 retired Pixel smartphones, stripped to their mainboards and clustered in groups of 20. According to a Google Research blog post cited by heise this week, each 20-board subsystem performs roughly on par with a conventional general-purpose server, and one such cluster already supports the simultaneous workloads of about 75 students running Jupyter Notebooks.

At WWDC 2026 last week, Apple announced two Siri AI upgrades and confirmed its mainstream flagship can't run either of them. The base iPhone 17 has 8GB of RAM; both new iPhone 18 Siri AI features require 12GB. Only the iPhone 17 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Air clear that bar, according to MacRumors and 9to5Mac, both reporting this week.

Apple will stop issuing new relay addresses from its current Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email domains later this summer, consolidating both under a single shared domain. The Sign in with Apple domain consolidation affects only newly generated addresses; existing ones keep forwarding without interruption. Developers and email providers whose systems name the old domains explicitly need to update before the rollout begins.