Google’s June 2026 Pixel Drop arrives with floating app bubbles, screen reactions and many new AI tools

Google has started rolling out Android 17 and its June Pixel Drop update, which adds Bubbles, Screen Reactions, AI music ...
techtimes

Cursor Composer 2.5 Matches Claude Opus 4.7 on Coding Benchmarks at One-Tenth Cost

Composer 2.5 is Cursor's third-generation proprietary coding agent, available exclusively inside the Cursor IDE and through the @cursor/sdk — not as a general API. Like its predecessor, it is built on ...
talkandroid.com

Setting Up A VPN On Android: What Most Tutorials Still Get Wrong

Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles. If you make a purchase through these links, we will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more. Setting up a VPN ...
TheServerSide

Full Git and GitHub tutorial for beginners

Git isn't hard to learn, and when you combine Git and GitHub, you've just made the learning process significantly easier. This two-hour Git and GitHub video tutorial shows you how to get started with ...
VentureBeat

Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI

The $29.3 billion AI coding tool just got caught with its provenance showing. When Cursor launched Composer 2 last week — calling it "frontier-level coding intelligence" — it presented the model as ...
VentureBeat

Cursor’s new coding model Composer 2 is here: It beats Claude Opus 4.6 but still trails GPT-5.4

Cursor, a San Francisco AI coding platform from startup Anysphere valued at $29.3 billion, has launched Composer 2, a new fine-tuned variant of Chinese open source model Kimi K2.5 now available inside ...
eWeek

Gemini Beats Claude, GPT in Google’s First Android AI Coding Benchmark

Google’s new Android Bench ranks the top AI models for Android coding, with Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leading Claude Opus 4.6 ...
Wired

The Best Alternative Operating Systems to Get Google Off Your Phone

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...
The New York Times

A ‘Hairspray’ Composer on Flops and Feats in the Musical Trenches

Performances in N.Y.C. Broadway, Hollywood and television have been kind to Marc Shaiman. But there’s a reason the subtitle of his new memoir is “Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner.” Broadway, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Artificial ‘Brain’ Aims to Allow Composer to Keep Making Music Three Years After His Death

At the Art Gallery of Western Australia, mallets periodically strike 20 wall-mounted brass plates, sending sound ringing through the room. They are controlled by a combination of man and machine: On a ...
Geeky Gadgets

Android 16 Beta 4 Hands-On: Exploring All the Key Changes

Android 16 Beta 4 represents a pivotal stage in the development of the Android platform, delivering a range of updates, fixes, and refinements. As the second platform stability update, it finalizes ...