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Adobe is slowly transforming its AI video and image generation platform into a proper AI video editing suite. A few months back, the company added a timeline view and text prompt editing to Firefly. With its latest update, Adobe has introduced a Quick Cut feature that allows users to upload their footage and automatically generate a clean first cut. Save hours of editing time with Quick Cut I’m a hobby video editor, and one of the most time-consuming parts of the process is creating an initial rough cut from hours of footage. The Quick Cut feature will handle this task…

It turns out that making a phone thinner doesn’t automatically make it more popular. Reports suggest the iPhone Air hasn’t sold well, and now it appears Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge, a phone launched as a direct competitor to the iPhone Air, hasn’t performed much better. In an interview with Bloomberg, Won-Joon Choi, chief operating officer of Samsung’s Mobile Experience Business, said that the sales for Galaxy S25 Edge were “relatively lower than other lineups.” He attributed the lower sales numbers to the small battery pack, which provides lower endurance than the company’s other offering.  Samsung hasn’t decided whether there will…

Google just gave us a real glimpse of how Android 17 might change the way you use your phone. New developer tools announced Tuesday let AI agents like Gemini dive directly into your installed apps to find photos, manage calendars, or book a multi-stop rideshare while you do something else. The idea is simple. Instead of opening apps one by one, you tell an AI what you need. Google calls this the “agentic future,” and it’s landing in pieces starting now on the Galaxy S26 series and select Pixel 10 devices. A long press of the power button on those…

A Korean research team says it has solved the biggest technical hurdle standing between today’s EVs and a 12-minute charge. The breakthrough targets dendrites. Those are the needle-like crystals that grow inside lithium-metal batteries during fast charging. They’ve kept advanced cells from leaving the lab by shortening lifespan and increasing fire risk. Now researchers at KAIST have developed an intelligent coating that rearranges itself. It keeps lithium ions moving smoothly, even under extreme electrical load. A self-adjusting layer that mimics traffic flow The team added thiophene to the battery electrolyte. That creates a protective barrier with a flexible electronic structure.…

Picking a flagship in 2026 is genuinely harder than it should be — not because the options are bad, but because they’re good in completely different ways. The S26 Ultra is Samsung doing what its does best: throwing everything at a phone until it sticks. The OnePlus 15 has a battery so large it almost feels like cheating, at a price that makes the other two look overpriced. And the Pixel 10 Pro XL is Google quietly making the case that specs aren’t everything — that software, consistency, and a camera you can trust on the first shot matter more…

Well, those Falcon 9 landings never get old. Imagine, just over a decade ago the idea of being able to land a rocket upright after it’d been to space seemed crazy. And then SpaceX went and did it. Following its first successful touchdown in December 2015, SpaceX suffered the occasional mishap with its booster landings, but in recent years it’s well and truly nailed the process. The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company shared a video (below) this week of its most recent landing, with dramatic footage captured by a camera attached to the rocket showing the spectacular early-morning ride home. The…

After rolling out its AI-powered Prompted Playlist feature to users in North America earlier this year, Spotify is now introducing another smart tool aimed at improving how your music flows from one track to the next. With its latest update, the streaming giant has added a new feature called Smart Reorder for playlist transitions. As its name suggests, the feature automatically rearranges songs in a playlist to create smoother transitions between tracks. It builds on the Mix tool introduced last year, which allowed users to manually add volume, EQ, and effect curves to achieve seamless transitions between tracks in a…

Of all the things Samsung announced at the Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25, 2026, a quiet little feature might actually be my favorite, and for good reasons. Remember Samsung’s Audio Eraser that showed up with the Galaxy S25 series? You’d shoot a video, open it in the Gallery app, tap the AI button, and it would scrub out whatever background noise had crept in during recording. Wind, crowd roar, a lawnmower three houses down — gone. It worked well enough that people noticed, and Samsung clearly noticed people noticing. Samsung’s new Audio Eraser can make your live sports broadcasts…

This is the first Galaxy S26 Ultra deal that actually feels worth talking about. Amazon has the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 512GB pre-order bundle for $1,299.99, and it comes with a $200 Amazon gift card. That alone is a strong launch offer, but the real reason this stands out is the storage angle: this promo gives you double the storage without forcing you to pay the usual premium for it. That matters because flagship phone deals at launch are usually underwhelming. You might get a tiny credit, maybe a trade-in boost, and that’s it. This one is better. You’re getting…

Google rolled out the first Android 17 beta for eligible Pixel devices earlier this month, and other smartphone makers are now starting to follow suit. In a somewhat unexpected move, Motorola is among the first to announce its own beta program, giving users with select devices a chance to experience the OS upgrade ahead of its wider public release. According to GSMArena, the company has opened registrations for a limited number of devices across different regions. In the US, Moto Edge (2025) users can sign up for the beta. Meanwhile, users in select European, Middle Eastern, and African markets with…