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Government-brokered talks between Samsung Electronics and its largest union collapsed last week without agreement, leaving an 18-day strike scheduled for May 21 effectively on track, Seoul Economic Daily reported. The National Labor Relations Commission plans to issue a formal mediation proposal, but both sides must accept it for a settlement to take effect. With roughly one week until the deadline, the question for memory markets is not just whether a strike happens it's how much disruption is...

Exceeding the Google account 15GB storage limit locks your Gmail, freezes Drive uploads, and stops photo backups all at once. What it does not do, at least not right away, is delete anything. That distinction is worth understanding, because Google's own warning system tends to blur the two.

Android Authority's Stephen Schenck visited a Best Buy this week and found no OnePlus phones on display. A store associate confirmed the devices had recently been pulled from that floor space, Android Authority reported today. Multiple Reddit users reported the same pattern at their own locations, with Nothing phones appearing in the slots where OnePlus units used to sit.

Google treats AI Overviews the same way it treats knowledge panels: as a core Search feature that cannot be turned off. That same support page acknowledges, without much ceremony, that "AI Overviews can and will make mistakes." So you're getting a feature you didn't ask for, and it isn't guaranteed to be accurate.

Google wants enterprise IT buyers to stop thinking of Chromebooks as school devices. The pitch behind Chromebook Plus enterprise adoption has become markedly more credible over the past eighteen months: ten years of automatic updates, zero reported ransomware incidents, hardware substantially better than legacy Chromebooks and positioned against Windows 11 AI PCs, and Gemini-related features increasingly tied into the platform. That is a substantive offer. It is also the front half of a...

Samsung is reportedly planning to unveil its first AI smart glasses at Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22. The rumored Galaxy Glasses would run Android XR with Gemini as the built-in assistant, carry a 12MP camera, speakers, and microphones, and offload all processing to a paired phone — no display, no onboard compute.

Samsung Upgraded PDF Scanner Comes to Older Flagships With One UI 8.5

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Smaller Camera Cutout Leak: What the 2.5mm Punch Hole Means

Samsung Certified Re-Newed Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Flip 7 Cost More Than New Right Now

Gemini Workspace Upgrades: New Features, Access, and What's Unproven

Mystic Leaks has shared footage from an early Android build showing Google may be adding a full manual color picker to the Pixel's Wallpaper & style app, Android Authority and 9to5Google reported this week. The Pixel Material You color controls shown in the leak would let users choose any custom accent color directly, replacing a system that has generated palettes automatically from wallpaper since Android 12.

More than 15 years ago, Google introduced Chromebook, a laptop built for a cloud-first world that, as WIRED put it Tuesday, would come to dominate the US education market. Google is now making a structurally similar bet: that AI-native design and Android integration can define a new laptop category before Microsoft or Apple sets the terms.

New leak details suggest the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide will ship with just two rear cameras, skipping the telephoto lens that the standard Galaxy Z Fold 8 is reported to keep. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide camera specs, surfaced this week by SamMobile citing GalaxyClub, describe a primary wide and an ultrawide, both at 50MP. No telephoto. Both phones are rumored for a late July launch, per Android Authority two weeks ago. Samsung has not officially confirmed either model.

YouTube Ad Bug Resumes Video at Wrong Spot: Facts vs. Claims

Google is rolling out a redesigned Gemini overlay for Android, and 9to5Google reports it's showing up on stable Google app version 17.8. The update brings an expanded Tools menu directly into the floating UI, putting Deep Research, image and video generation, Canvas, and Guided Learning within reach without opening the Gemini app.

A Samsung camera team moderator has confirmed on the company's community forum that the One UI 8.5 stable rollout may be causing editing features to disappear from the Enhance-X app for some Galaxy users. A fix is in development, and Samsung plans to distribute it in phases a process the moderator said could take up to three days to complete once it begins, according to Android Authority.

Google Search was not down on May 5. What actually happened was narrower and stranger: a cryptographic error at Germany's domain registry made bahn.de, spiegel.de, and dozens of other .de websites unreachable for users on Google DNS, Cloudflare, and Quad9. The fault was at DENIC, the authority that manages the .de top-level domain. Google DNS users saw a "Google Search outage" because Google DNS was the service telling their browsers the site didn't exist but Google DNS was doing exactly what...

Ahead of Google's Android Show: I/O Edition event today, leaker Mystic Leaks published a 16-minute hands-on video of Aluminium OS on Telegram, one of the most detailed public looks yet at the Android-based platform Google intends as a long-term successor to ChromeOS. The Google Aluminium OS leak confirms the company has built a functional desktop shell. It also shows, in plain view, what's missing.

Galaxy S27 Ultra Battery Upgrade: Why a Dual-Cell Design Is Most Likely

Google's Pixel Screenshots app has a desktop build. Researchers activated a version through the Play Store today whose versioning explicitly marks it for desktop use, not a phone app stretched to fit a larger screen.

Google added Pixel 10 Comfort View to its flagship lineup two months agoa s part of the March 2026 Pixel Drop, a display feature designed specifically for users whose eyes struggle with the vivid, high-saturation rendering that modern OLED panels are built to deliver. The mode uses refined color filtering to pull back the intensity of very bright or oversaturated colors. It's available on the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, but not the Pixel 10a. The independent...

Google TV's home screen has a problem that Google shows no signs of fixing: it keeps getting more cluttered. Free channel promotions, recommendations from services you've never opened, a Shop tab, ads throughout, and now an AI-curated Shorts tab rolling out to some devices, per MakeUseOf this month. None of it is meaningfully removable through Google's own settings, according to Android Police.

Samsung's headline number from the S26 launch was a 29% sales increase over the S25 series in the first three weeks. The number that tells the more interesting story is 71%. According to Counterpoint Research data reported by Android Police last month, seven out of every ten U.S. buyers who purchased a Galaxy S26 in that window chose the Ultra, a share that grew by 10 percentage points compared to the S25 Ultra's cut of its own lineup. Galaxy S26 Ultra sales success was visible even before...

Google has pushed Android Auto v16.7 to its beta channel, and the Play Store Android Auto beta sign up page is currently accepting new testers. That window has closed before without warning. When capacity fills, Google's support page notes users simply stay on stable until the next cycle opens, no queue, no notification when spots return. A Google support community thread from late 2024 documents users hitting exactly that wall.

If you're searching for a new Chromecast, Google has an answer: the Google TV Streamer, priced at $99.99. That's roughly double what the Chromecast with Google TV cost. The price gap is not incidental it reflects a genuine product category shift, one worth understanding before handing over your money.

Google and Fitbit have acknowledged a permission reset bug that is causing Pixel Watch SpO2 and skin temperature tracking to stop working for some users, and the fix is not as simple as flipping a toggle. The permissions page on affected devices shows no app requesting access to those sensors, leaving users with no visible way to restore them. Both the PixelCommunity and FitbitHelpCommunity accounts confirmed the issue this week and said work is underway.

One UI 8.5 Galaxy Glasses Leak: What the Changelog Reveals

Google AI Edge Eloquent Dictation App: Offline AI That Edits Your Speech

Blizzard is launching a Diablo Immortal StarCraft crossover next week, and it comes packaged with something most limited-time events skip entirely: a permanent change to the game's gear system. The Battle for Beyond event runs May 13 through June 10, bringing faction-themed combat mechanics, a new Legendary Gem, and competitive leaderboards. Shipping in the same update is a permanent expansion of gear-slot access for every player, according to Blizzard's announcement published this week.

Samsung and LG arrived at SID Display Week 2026 this week with the same "AI era" booth branding and sharply different ideas about what that means in practice. LG unveiled a third-generation automotive tandem OLED with a mass production date attached: before the end of this year. Samsung showed brighter, sensor-equipped mobile panels and a stretchable automotive cluster with no equivalent shipping commitment. The three-day event wraps up today at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Samsung Call Screening for Galaxy S25: Features and Release Details

Here's what actually happens when you buy the wrong charger: the phone charges, nothing explodes, and you never realize you're getting half the speed you paid for. The number on the box looked right. The cable fit. The problem was invisible.

Google hasn't launched the Pixel 11 yet, but the chip destined for the Pixel 12 already has an internal name. A Pixel 12 Tensor G7 leak published today identified the processor's codename months before its predecessor reaches consumers, and while that single data point reveals nothing about performance, it suggests Google is tracking future Tensor work well ahead of any public launch. That's the useful signal here.

Two leaks about the OnePlus 16 camera have surfaced, and they don't agree. One tipster says OnePlus is testing a 200MP main camera sensor. Another says the same 200MP sensor belongs in a periscope telephoto slot. The remaining cameras would reportedly stay at 50MP each either way. That disagreement isn't a minor detail gap it describes two fundamentally different phones.

Galaxy S26 Ultra Blurry Photos Fix: No Hardware Swap Needed

Galaxy S26 Exynos 2600 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite: What the Data Shows

Samsung Electronics crossed the $1 trillion market cap threshold today, becoming only the second East Asian company ever to reach that level alongside TSMC. Its stock surged 12% in a single session. But the Samsung $1 trillion valuation rests on something more specific than AI leadership and more precarious.

Numerous Pixel owners have lost cellular service after their eSIM stopped working, and Google has acknowledged the Google Pixel eSIM bug across multiple Issue Tracker threads without issuing a fix, Android Authority reported today. The Pixel 9 and Pixel 10 series are the most commonly affected devices. The exact cause remains unclear.

Google hasn't officially announced the Fitbit Air yet. The subscription built around it is already live across three storefronts.

Snapseed 4.0 is arriving on Android this week. Snapseed product lead Giles Ochs confirmed the release in an Instagram post ending with the card: "Snapseed 4.0 out on iOS and Android this week," Android Authority reported Wednesday. That's a direct statement from inside the product team, credible but not a formal Google release note. No Play Store changelog, feature list, or minimum Android version requirement has been shared publicly.