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Samsung is always pushing the boundaries of what a display could do. Earlier this year, the company released its flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display that turns off wide-angle pixels, limiting the viewing angle so no one can snoop on your phone.  Now, the company has showcased a display technology that could make your next smartphone a surprisingly capable health monitoring device. At Display Week 2026 in Los Angeles, the company unveiled its latest Sensor OLED Display, a 6.8-inch panel that integrates health sensors directly into the display itself.  It can measure biometric data such as heart rate…

We trust GPS like we trust gravity. It just works and gets us where we want to go. But what if someone could trick it into lying to you, and you’d have absolutely no idea? Unlike jamming, which floods your GPS with noise and at least lets you know something is wrong, spoofing sends fake signals that look completely legitimate. You might be tracking your car or a shipment and think everything is alright when actually the shipment has been routed to someplace else, with you none being the wiser.  That’s GPS spoofing, and it’s a bigger problem than most people…

AI chatbots were meant to help answer your questions, maybe summarize questions, and even help you with your emails. But the darker problem is what happens when people start trusting it like an actual companion. A new report highlights several cases where users say chatbot conversations are feeding into their delusional thinking. ChatGPT and Grok were both often named in the report. BBC spoke to 14 people who spiraled into delusions while using AI, including one case where a Grok user believed people from xAI were coming to kill him, and another where a ChatGPT user’s wife said his personality…

Apple has spent the better part of the last year looking like the most composed player in a room full of people setting their own furniture on fire. While Microsoft was hiking Surface prices to genuinely eye-watering levels and Chinese OEMs were watching their flagship ambitions evaporate under the weight of component costs, Apple held the line — a quiet confidence that felt almost theatrical. It was impressive while it lasted. It just didn’t last long enough. Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring is now calling it: the iPhone 18 lineup will likely cost $100 more than the iPhone 17 generation…

Kenya was promising wider access to more affordable healthcare. But a new investigation has revealed that its algorithm-driven system is making life harder for the people it was supposed to help most. According to reporting by The Guardian, Africa Uncensored, and Lighthouse Reports, Kenya’s new Social Health Authority system is using a predictive machine-learning algorithm to estimate how much people should pay for public health insurance. The system was first launched back in October 2024 as part of President William Ruto’s promise to expand healthcare access to Kenya’s large informal workforce. How the algorithm is hurting Kenyans The problem is…

Every time you create a new online account, you’re handing over personal data to a server you’ll never control. Since an average person can have hundreds of online accounts on different services, that adds up to a lot of data sitting in corporate databases. Researchers at Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab say that this system puts your privacy at risk and makes you more vulnerable to identity theft. Their solution to this problem is Keyring, an open-source identity wallet that stores your biometric data on your phone instead. How does Keyring actually work? Think of it as a privacy-first digital…

Delays have already pushed Grand Theft Auto VI further down the calendar, and the latest accounts from inside Rockstar Games suggest the schedule pressure hasn’t eased. Instead, employees describe a situation where the burden of meeting leadership’s revised timelines is falling directly on development teams, with long hours and unpaid overtime becoming routine in recent weeks. Is crunch culture still deeply embedded at Rockstar Games despite past backlash? A recent Glassdoor review from a QA analyst in Bengaluru, first highlighted by GTA 6 Countdown on X, says the workload has become unrealistic. The employee claims overtime is expected but not…

Google’s long-running face unlock comeback story may have hit another wall. A recent Pixel 11 series leak claims that Project Toscana, Google’s rumored infrared face unlock system, likely will not debut on the Pixel 11 lineup because it is still not ready for release. The feature was expected to give future Pixel phones a stronger rival to Apple’s Face ID. Earlier reports said Project Toscana was tested on both Pixel phones and Chromebooks, with Face ID-like speed and better low-light performance. The latest leak suggests Pixel users may have to wait beyond the 2026 lineup for that upgrade. Is Google…

You might think the ads you scroll past every day are just background noise. But a new research suggests they’re doing a lot more than selling you things. The study found that AI can analyze the ads shown to you online and reconstruct sensitive personal details about you (via UNSW). That includes your political preferences, education level, employment status, age, gender, and broader financial situation. The scary part is that you don’t need to click anything; just seeing the ads is enough. How does this actually work? Researchers analyzed over 435,000 Facebook ads shown to 891 users, collected through a…

ACCA research reveals rising entrepreneurial ambition among women in finance, as organisation steps up efforts to support future leaders New global data shows 48% of women in finance aspire to entrepreneurship, with ACCA in the Middle East advancing initiatives to accelerate female leadership Dubai, UAE – 4 May 2026: New insights from ACCA reveal a significant rise in entrepreneurial ambition among women in the finance profession, highlighting a shift in career confidence and long-term aspirations. Early findings from ACCA’s forthcoming Global Talent Trends 2026 report show that 48% of women working in finance and accountancy now aspire to become entrepreneurs, up from 45%…