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Samsung Faces AR Patent Lawsuit Over Location Tech—What It Means for Your Galaxy and Windows Ecosystem
On July 17, 2026, augmented reality software firm Gravity Jack sued Samsung in federal court over two US patents that describe methods for refining a phone’s location to make AR content appear more...
Samsung Unpacked July 22: Galaxy Z Fold 8 Leaked Upgrades — From Wider Screen to Windows Continuity, Here's What to Expect
Samsung will host its summer Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in London, where it is widely expected to announce the next generation of its foldable smartphones, including the...
Apple Killed the Mac Pro After Secretly Building Extreme Chips and a Last-Gasp Intel Model
Apple not only discontinued the Mac Pro in March 2026 but also quietly developed and then scrapped an entire generation of “Extreme” processors and a surprise Intel-based successor. Bloomberg’s...
iOS 27 Beta 4 Delivers AI Siri Polish and AirPods Smarts, Yet Windows Users Are Still Waiting
On July 20, 2026, Apple pushed iOS 27 beta 4 to developers, refining the Siri AI onboarding, adding voice options, tweaking the Liquid Glass interface, and upgrading AirPods controls. Code hints also...
Apple Deepens Silicon Valley Footprint with 125,800-Sq-Ft Lease—Here’s Why Windows Users Should Care
Apple has leased a 125,800-square-foot office building at 580 North Mary Avenue in Sunnyvale, California, extending a real estate buying spree that already exceeds $1 billion across the South Bay....
How to Claim Your Free Vampire Destroyer and Week of Premium in World of Warships: Legends
On July 20, 2026, World of Warships: Legends players gained access to a new, no-cost add-on that packs a historic warship, a seven-day premium subscription, and a heap of currencies and boosters. The...
Your Windows Servers Can Now Join the Same Management Console as Your PCs
Omnissa quietly brought Windows Server into its Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management platform this May, giving enterprises a single cloud-native console to configure, patch, inventory, and...
Windows 11 Release Preview Adds Voice Isolation, Touchpad Controls, and Wider Biometric Security
Microsoft shipped Windows 11 Builds 26100.8942 and 26200.8942 to the Release Preview Channel on July 20, 2026, targeting versions 24H2 and 25H2 respectively. The update lands with a long list of...
GPT-5.6 Claims to Solve Erdős Problem #119 with a One-Page Proof: Here’s Why Skeptics Are Wary
On July 20, 2026, the mathematical world was rocked by claims that OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, working with mathematician “Korsky,” had solved a decades-old problem from the legendary Paul...
Windows 11 Beta Build 26220.8925: Start Menu Sections Become Optional, Sizes Go Small or Large, and File Explorer Drops the Kilobyte Obsession
Microsoft delivered a Windows 11 Beta build this week that gives users something they’ve been asking for since October 2021: genuine control over what the Start menu shows, how big it is, and...
Windows 11’s Start Menu Can Finally Be Resized—and That’s Just the Start
Microsoft shipped two Windows 11 Beta builds on July 20, 2026, and the marquee addition is a Start menu you can shrink, enlarge, or let Windows size automatically. Build 26220.8925 doesn’t stop...
NotebookLM’s AI Podcasts Can Distort News Stories: What Windows Users Need to Know
A group of journalists asked Google’s NotebookLM to turn their own carefully reported articles into AI-generated podcast conversations—and then listened closely. What they heard ranged from...