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Archives for September 2026

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
You can display shots from A24 films on Samsung’s art TVs now.

The Samsung Art Store’s first cinematic collection includes 38 stills from A24 films that users can display like art on The Frame and other compatible TVs, including shots from I Saw the TV Glow and Midsommar.

A Samsung TV displaying a shot from A24’s Midsommar
A Samsung TV displaying a shot from A24’s I Saw the TV Glow
1/2Image: Samsung
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Pixel HiLight should get better, with new colors on the way.

The Pixel 11 Pro light is so far underwhelming, only working for calls from favorite contacts or Gemini interactions. Google always said message support is on the way, but a report from Android Authority suggests new colors are coming too, expanding on the five available now. That’s still behind what other devs have done with it.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Sony quits CES.

Sony’s keynotes were once a highlight of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But the company’s presence has shrunk in proportion to its slow exit from consumer electronics. And with Bravia now a TCL brand, and the Afeela EV joint venture with Honda scrubbed, there’s little reason to attend.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Lenovo’s Googlebook is $150 cheaper than we thought.

We’d been told the 15-inch laptop would start at $1,299, but preorders just opened for a much friendlier $1,149.99. It’s the biggest of the first five Googlebooks, with an Intel Core Ultra 5 325 processor inside, 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage, and an HDMI port. It ships from October 4th.

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1/4Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
Tom Warren
Tom Warren
Googlebook OS will be available for some Chromebooks.

Googlebooks will be available at retailers later this week, but you might not need to buy a new device to get Google’s latest laptop OS. “Many of our newest Chromebook devices will be eligible to transition over to Googlebook OS,” says Google in a support note targeted at Chromebook enterprise and education customers. Google hasn’t shared migration paths or device eligibility yet, but it’s encouraging to see the search giant sticking to what it announced earlier this year.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
I think Google has a bit of an SEO problem with ‘Googlebooks.’

Googling “Googlebooks” doesn’t pull up any info about Google’s upcoming laptops. It’s an entire page of links, and even an AI overview, about Google Books — a search index of actual books. Not ideal for potential customers looking for information on new products launching soon.

Google is great at names.

A search for Googlebooks resulting in Google Books.
A search for Googlebooks resulting in Google Books.