Month: April 2026

Samsung’s Answer to Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Revealed in Leaked Images

Samsung’s Answer to Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Revealed in Leaked Images

Leaked images of Samsung’s rumored Galaxy Glasses suggest the tech giant is preparing for its long-awaited entry into the smart glasses market. The arrival of the wearable would set the stage for a tech battle between two of the industry’s heavyweights, Meta and Samsung, as they vie to dominate one of tech’s up-and-coming hardware categories.

Images that appear to show Samsung’s first Galaxy Glasses began circulating on April 27, after Android Headlines published them along with technical specifications. The leak gives the world its first glimpse of the lightweight, camera-equipped AI spectacles that happen to look a whole lot like Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses.

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Apple Patches iPhone Bug Exploited by Police to Recover Deleted Chats, But Privacy Questions Persist

Apple Patches iPhone Bug Exploited by Police to Recover Deleted Chats, But Privacy Questions Persist

Apple’s latest iOS security patch fixes an iPhone bug that some law enforcement groups had leveraged to recover messages that suspects believed they had deleted from their devices. Message preview caching was the culprit, leaving copies of the messages in the internal notification database even after a user wiped their history.

The issue was patched in iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 on April 22. In its security notes, Apple described the bug’s impact as “notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,” and said the problem was “addressed with improved data redaction.”

The fix came after a 404 Media report that the FBI had used forensic tools to retrieve Signal messages from message previews on a suspect’s phone after the app had been deleted. Continue reading “Apple Patches iPhone Bug Exploited by Police to Recover Deleted Chats, But Privacy Questions Persist” →

Gemini’s ‘Continued Conversation’ Feature Makes Google’s AI More Practical for Smart Homes

Gemini’s ‘Continued Conversation’ Feature Makes Google’s AI More Practical for Smart Homes

Google has announced “Continued Conversation” for its Gemini for Home AI system, which allows for follow-up questions and commands to Nest speakers and smart displays without the need to repeat the wake word each time.

In an announcement on April 21, the company said it had already started rolling out the feature.

When Google began replacing Google Assistant with Gemini back in early 2024, it felt like a technological regression for many power users.

Before the update, they could have back-and-forth conversations with their smart speakers without having to speak the wake word. That changed with Gemini. In principle, there was more that the AI-powered smart assistant could do — write a poem about their refrigerator, for instance. Yet it failed at what many would consider a basic task: handling follow-up commands without being prompted again. Continue reading “Gemini’s ‘Continued Conversation’ Feature Makes Google’s AI More Practical for Smart Homes” →

Prediction Markets: Trading, Gambling, or Both? Why the Debate Matters for Consumer Protections

Prediction Markets: Trading, Gambling, or Both? Why the Debate Matters for Consumer Protections

Ask ten people about prediction markets, and you’ll likely get ten different answers.

To some, they’re nothing more than sportsbooks dressed up in financial clothing. To others, they’re sophisticated tools for hedging real-world risk.

However, for the average user, the experience is much less abstract. For them, it’s simply this: put your money on an uncertain outcome, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.

Prediction markets have experienced rapid growth over the last year, with Kalshi and Polymarket reaching multibillion-dollar valuations.

As they continue to expand into sports and other consumer-facing categories, the debate over what prediction markets really are, and what protections they owe their users, is becoming harder to ignore.

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Amazon Ending Support for Older Kindles Next Month, Showing the Hidden Cost of “Forever” Tech

Amazon Ending Support for Older Kindles Next Month, Showing the Hidden Cost of “Forever” Tech

On May 20, Amazon will end support for the earliest Kindle e-readers, pulling the plug on connectivity for all models released in 2012 or earlier.

Affected Kindles will no longer be able to connect to Amazon services. For users, that means no more buying, borrowing, or downloading new books directly to their devices after the effective date.

When many of us purchased a Kindle, there was a certain expectation that the slim electronic slate would hold our forever library, an archive that would never yellow, tear, or take up space on a physical shelf.

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