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Solipsism Browser is a new open-source Android browser built on Chromium that launched about three months ago, offering extensive customization and design options typically associated with Firefox forks rather than Chrome. Despite its early stage, reviewers note it already feels highly polished and distinct from mainstream Chromium-based browsers.
GrapheneOS developers discovered that Google's Pixel 11 phones do include hardware support for Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) after examining code in the Android 17 QPR2 Beta 4 release. This contradicts the project's earlier assessment, made just days prior, that the phones lacked MTE and its accompanying warning against purchasing them.
The Verge's editorial team, including news editor Dom Preston and smart home reviewer Jen Tuohy, spent the week at IFA in Berlin testing new products firsthand. They opened a subscriber-only Q&A session to field reader questions about the devices they tried, with answers rolling out live starting at 12PM ET.
Lexar has introduced the Muse Ultraslim Portable SSD, which it says is the thinnest portable SSD on the market at 1mm to 3.8mm thick. It comes in 512GB and 1TB capacities, includes a magnetic carry sleeve for MagSafe or magnetic phone cases, and works with iPhones, iPads, Macs and other USB-C devices, supporting up to 4K/120fps ProRes capture.
Teardown of the latest Google Phone app beta (v237.0.973536915) reveals Xiaomi has been added to the list of supported manufacturers for Scam Detection. The AI-powered call-screening tool already works on Pixel phones and Samsung's Galaxy S26 series, with vivo support also expected soon. It's not yet clear which Xiaomi models will get the feature first, though a globally sold flagship is the likely candidate rather than the China-only Xiaomi 18 Fold.
UGreen has introduced three smart home hubs — the HomeAgent HA100, HomeAgent HA100 Pro, and MasterAgent MA100 — that handle voice commands, camera monitoring, and Matter device control entirely on-device rather than through cloud servers. Each unit combines a two-bay NAS with dedicated video storage and varying levels of onboard AI horsepower, including NVIDIA hardware in higher-end models, with the base HA100 offering 16GB of RAM and 26 TOPS of AI performance.
UGREEN has launched a set of new smart home devices including three cameras (one indoor, two outdoor), a smart speaker, and a digital photo frame. The cameras—Indoor Cam ID500 Pro, PoE Cam OD600 Pro, and Battery Cam OD800 Pro—all feature 8MP 4K main sensors and are built to integrate with UGREEN's local-AI smart home hubs for video processing and storage. The new SynCare Smart Speaker connects users to UGREEN's own AI assistant, called Uliya.
UGREEN has released the MagFlo Pro, a 10,000mAh magnetic battery pack offering 25W Qi2 wireless charging and 45W wired USB-C output. The device uses a multi-layer liquid cooling chamber with a visible circulating coolant, which the company says is the first such system built into a Qi2 power bank. It's priced at roughly $150 on Amazon, alongside new foldable 2-in-1 and 3-in-1 chargers aimed at Apple device users.
Android Authority found new code in a Digital Wellbeing beta build (version 1.47.964183037) showing Google testing a redesigned interface with a Material Expressive look. The changes include a reworked app activity dashboard, multi-app selection for setting shared daily timers, and a restructured Bedtime mode that removes collapsible sections and reorders elements like Bedtime routine and Weekly average.
Code strings found in a beta version of Google's Digital Wellbeing app reveal an in-development feature called Weekly wrap, which would send users a notification summarizing their phone usage over the past week. Rather than requiring users to manually check screen-time stats, the tool would proactively surface personalized insights based on existing usage data, likely powered by Gemini Nano.
Google has introduced WeatherNext 3, its newest AI-driven weather forecasting model, which will feed into Search, Gemini and Maps. Unlike its predecessor, which updated every six hours at a 25km resolution, the new model can refresh hourly and pinpoint conditions down to 5km by incorporating live satellite data instead of older simulation outputs.
At IFA 2026, Lenovo showed off Project Swan, a concept laptop that normally functions as a compact 14-inch, 1.6kg machine but features a rollable display that can expand outward into a larger 17-inch, 16:9 screen. It's one of two Intel-powered concept laptops Lenovo is demonstrating this year, and it remains a proof-of-concept with no announced price or release date.