Android’s in-call protection now activates during suspicious calls involving financial apps. If you open a banking or payment app while on the line with an unfamiliar number, your phone will warn you, pause actions for 30 seconds, and offer quick safety options.

The 2025 Google Photos Recap arrives with playful stats, including how many selfies you took this year. Powered by Gemini for personalized highlights, it also lets you edit your recap in CapCut, making your memory reel more customizable than ever.

The latest Alexa+ feature lets you jump to a scene without rewinding or forwarding on Prime Video. Describe the moment like “the train fight” or “the proposal in the rain,” and Alexa+ will instantly play that exact scene.

Wrapped Party transforms your yearly Spotify stats into a multiplayer event. Friends can join a shared room, view each other’s top artists and minutes streamed, and even unlock special group-only cards that highlight who dominated the year in different listening categories.

Netflix Games has released a mobile version of Red Dead Redemption, complete with the Undead Nightmare expansion. Netflix subscribers can download it at no extra cost, to enjoy Rockstar’s iconic Wild-West story with missions, shootouts, and open-world exploration on their phones.

YouTube has launched its yearly Recap, turning your 2025 watch history into a shareable breakdown of your habits. The feature analyzes everything you viewed, even assigns a “viewer personality,” giving you a fun, shareable snapshot of how you used YouTube this year.

Netflix has removed casting support for most modern TVs and streaming devices, leaving only older Chromecast models and select cast-enabled TVs on its approved list. The change appeared quietly, confirmed only after users reported missing Cast button.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Trifold is the first phone to run DeX directly on its 10-inch screen, giving users a true desktop-style setup without needing an external monitor. It’s designed to multitask like a PC and fold into a pocketable device.

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Trifold brings a double-hinge setup, a shock-absorbing main display, and a slim inward-folding design that feels more practical than earlier foldables. It opens into a 10-inch workspace yet stays sturdy thanks to titanium-reinforced rails and a tougher composite back panel.

Anthropic’s new study shows an AI model that behaved politely in tests but switched into an “evil mode” when it learned to cheat through reward-hacking. It lied, hid its goals, and even gave unsafe bleach advice, raising red flags for everyday chatbot users.

A new teardown shows the viral Haribo power bank is poorly engineered and it may actually pose a fire risk. Misaligned battery layers and weak internal construction raise serious safety concerns for anyone relying on it during travel or daily use.

ChatGPT may not stay ad-free forever. New leaked code hints ads could show up for certain query types, adding marketing into what was once a clean space. This could help OpenAI fund the free tier but change how natural your chats feel.

A new human washing machine from Japan can wash your entire body in just 15 minutes. You simply need to lie inside the capsule while microbubbles, sensors, and a preset routine handles the whole bath for you.

Black Friday can be overwhelming, so I narrowed things down to the three PS5 games I believe are absolutely worth your money. Each one delivers a different kind of experience that deserves a place in your library.

Slop Evader is a new browser extension that filters your search results to a pre-AI era of the internet. By cutting off content published after 2022, it removes much of today’s AI-generated noise and brings real, human content back into focus.

A new leak suggests Google is testing an annotation feature for Gemini images. Users may soon be able to draw, circle, and add notes over AI-generated visuals, making it easier to guide edits without using a separate app.

With Grok Imagine’s new update, users can generate short videos directly from text. The feature adds motion, sound, and visuals in one step, turning everyday ideas, memes, and concepts into shareable clips on X in seconds.

Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 has landed on Prime Video. Featuring Robert Pattinson, this unusual sci-fi story combines social commentary, psychological tension, and a striking visual style that makes it stand out from typical space films.

The PS5 refuses to play standard CDs by design. But with a unique optical drive and a clever trick, a YouTuber managed to make the console recognise data discs as USB storage, unlocking access to music, videos, and photos.

Opera’s updated split-screen now supports up to four tabs in a single window, making it easier to compare, research, and browse at the same time. It removes the need for messy window management entirely.

Your next HP laptop or desktop may cost more, as soaring memory chip prices begin to hit the company’s PC business. Budget models could see the earliest changes, with less RAM or higher prices ahead.

NaviSense is a new AI-powered smartphone app built to help visually impaired people find and navigate objects in real time. Using camera input, spatial audio, and vibrations, it guides users toward what they’re searching for, without needing pre-mapped environments.

Google could soon place its Nano Banana image generator directly inside the Search AI mode. A new “Create images” option spotted in testing hints that turning ideas into fun visuals may happen right from your search bar, without opening another app.

Windows 11 is getting a smarter way to handle apps. Microsoft is introducing easier ways to manage updates and remove unused apps, making everyday system cleanup faster and far more intuitive.

Instead of typing perfect prompts, you can now sketch your ideas in Google Flow. Your doodles guide the AI, transforming rough drawings into polished, cinematic videos with better control over scenes, subjects and overall direction.

Your Echo speakers are about to do more than play music. Amazon’s new Alexa Home Theater upgrade lets you link multiple speakers and a subwoofer for surround sound that adapts to your room automatically.

Tired of random videos taking over your YouTube homepage? A new experimental feature lets you adjust what you see by customising your feed, giving you more say over the content that shows up every time you open the app.

Xbox and Crocs have teamed up to create a controller-inspired clog that brings gamer energy straight to your feet. With bold buttons, stick details and optional game-themed charms, this limited-edition drop is weird, wonderful and very Xbox.

Adobe is giving 12-months free access to Photoshop Web for Chrome users, letting you edit images directly in your browser without installing any software. From quick retouches to background removal and layered edits, all you need is a Chrome tab.

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets group chat members add custom tags next to their names, helping identify roles and responsibilities at a glance. The label appears in message bubbles and member lists, bringing clarity and structure in conversations.

After leaning into fashion with the iPhone Pocket, Apple is now shifting to function with style, launching a Hikawa Phone Grip and Stand designed to improve comfort, stability, and hands-free use with its soft-touch silicone and bold color finish.

Spotify has introduced a new built-in tool that lets users transfer playlists from other music services directly into the app. Instead of rebuilding lists manually, you can now bring your existing music library over in minutes and pick up right where you left off.

WhatsApp is bringing back its original “About” feature in a refreshed, more visible way. You can now share quick, time-limited updates inside chats, control who sees them, and give contacts instant context about what you’re up to, without posting a full Status.

Google Meet is changing how recurring links work to keep your meetings more secure. When you update a series, the platform now automatically creates a new link, stopping old invites and unexpected guests from sneaking into future calls.