Google Ecosystem & Pixel Gemini app replacing Gems with skills in November September 27, 2026 Siti Muinah Users visiting the online Gems manager have begun encountering a prominent notice at the top of the interface informing them of the upcoming change. According to the notification displayed on…
Tech Business & Industry Trends The AI Identity Paradox: Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman on the Mirage of Sentience September 26, 2026 Siti Muinah Welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, where the gap between human interaction and machine processing is narrowing by the day, the…
Android Development & SDK Google Expands Play Age Signals API Globally to Enhance Family Safety and Developer Flexibility September 26, 2026 Siti Muinah In an ongoing effort to bolster online safety and protect young users from potential harms, Google has announced the worldwide expansion of its Google Play Age Signals API. The move…
Mobile Apps & Games Bridge Constructor+ Turns Collapsing Structures Into a Multiplayer Competition September 25, 2026 Siti Muinah Mobile gaming has long relied on compelling visuals and striking trailers to capture the attention of players, but few titles achieved this quite as memorably as Bridge Constructor. More than…
Android News & Updates Android 17 QPR2 Beta 6 fixes some annoying bugs while taking a few features away September 25, 2026 Siti Muinah As development cycles for quarterly platform releases progress, Google continues to iron out system stability ahead of the commercial rollout. Android 17 QPR2 remains more than two months away from…
Smart Home & IoT Podcast: Can Alexa (and the smart home) stand on its own? September 24, 2026 Siti Muinah The impending retirement of David Limp, Amazon’s head of devices, underscores a broader wave of executive departures that have swept through the tech giant over the past year. Limp’s departure…
Android Development & SDK How WhatsApp Scaled Passkeys to Billions of Users: Inside the Security Overhaul September 24, 2026 Siti Muinah As the world’s largest messaging platform, WhatsApp serves billions of people globally, acting as an indispensable communication tool across deeply diverse regions, languages, and network infrastructures. Connecting such a massive…
Smart Home & IoT IoT News Roundup: Verdigris Secures $10M Funding, Nordic Acquires Atlazo IP, and the Latest Smart Home Ecosystem Updates September 24, 2026 Siti Muinah The Internet of Things landscape continues to evolve rapidly, marked this week by significant funding rounds, strategic hardware acquisitions, shifting corporate strategies among tech giants, and ongoing debates surrounding smart…
Tech Business & Industry Trends The Battle for the Future of AI: Branding Versus Infrastructure September 23, 2026 Siti Muinah What is the most pressing issue in artificial intelligence today? Is it the growing alarm surrounding runaway models that appear to be escaping their digital sandboxes, potentially hacking, colluding, or…
Mobile Security & Privacy North Korean Threat Actors Expand Supply Chain Attacks to Terraform Registry and Go Modules with Sophisticated Multi-Channel Malware September 23, 2026 Siti Muinah Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a novel and highly sophisticated supply chain attack vector, revealing that Go-based malware is now being distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers. This…
