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This week, Android 16‘s secure model lastly lands on Pixel gadgets, Samsung drops one other tease for its “Extremely” Galaxy Z Fold 7, alleged Galaxy Watch 8 renders present up on-line, Google and ChatGPT skilled outages this week, and One UI 8’s second beta arrives on the Galaxy S25 collection. Let’s dive proper in!
Android 16 takes flight and Pixels catch the primary trip
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Android 16 has lastly arrived, and Pixel telephones would be the first to expertise this new secure model of the OS. After a number of Beta releases and virtually giving us a touch at nearly all of the options of the brand new OS, Google launched the secure model of the software program this week.
Android 16 brings with it one of the awaited options — dwell updates or real-time notifications, permitting customers to trace all the things from meals supply to ride-sharing, all from the lockscreen or the notification drop-down.
Individuals utilizing listening to aids, due to LE Audio, additionally get a little bit one thing with this OS replace. With Android 16, customers could have the flexibility to modify to utilizing their cellphone’s microphone for clearer calls in noisy environments.
Android 16 is bringing extra instruments for customers to guard themselves from undesirable rip-off apps, calls, or different on-line threats. Google’s “strongest cellular system safety,” Advanced Protection, as soon as enabled, prompts a spread of sturdy system security measures on the cellphone.
Lastly, bigger display screen gadgets additionally get one thing out of Android 16. Google says it is making multitasking seamless on foldables and tablets, bringing a function referred to as “Desktop Windowing,” which was teased at Google I/O 2025. This function will enable customers to have a number of app home windows open, movable, and resizable on a single display screen, just like what you are able to do on a pc.
Samsung teases AI powered cameras for its upcoming Z Fold
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This week, Samsung dropped one other teaser for its upcoming Z Fold 7, and this time it is hinting on the system’s cameras. In its newest weblog publish, Samsung previewed a brand new clever digital camera system that may be extra intuitive and perceive what customers are capturing and modify itself to match any state of affairs.
“As AI evolves from text-based prompts to multimodal understanding, Galaxy gadgets have gotten smarter — in a position to get what you’re taking a look at and reply to conditions. The digital camera is on the coronary heart of this transformation,” the corporate defined.
“Greater than only a instrument for capturing photographs, coupled with enhanced AI-powered options, the Galaxy digital camera is now a part of the intuitive interface that turns what customers see into understanding and motion.”
The corporate additionally provides that these cameras will simply adapt to the customers’ wants and make capturing moments extra private and seamless, with the facility of AI.
Galaxy Watch 8 reveals renders present up on-line
Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 leaks maintain getting higher. This week, leaked renders of the alleged watch confirmed up on-line, giving us a good suggestion of what the precise system would possibly appear to be.
The renders instructed that the Galaxy Watch 8 would present up with a squircle design, as seen in earlier leaks as properly. The renders of the system present the wearable in a sleeker design, with white straps, a square-ish silver base, and its round watch face on prime. The Watch 8 is purported to have solely two bodily buttons and are available two sizes.
Moreover, somebody ended up importing photos of the alleged Galaxy Watch 8 Basic on eBay. Within the itemizing, the smartwatch is seen with a leather-based strap, a round (extra squircle) design, with a distinguished crown sitting between two buttons. The audio system are additionally seen on one facet of the smartwatch. The Galaxy Watch 8 Basic is predicted to indicate up with a metal or titanium end.
The week of outages
This week noticed outages on a number of on-line platforms, starting with ChatGPT on June 10, the place customers skilled a large 12-hour outage. Based on DownDetector, a number of reviews of the outage started trickling in at round 2:20 am ET, with the spike in outage reviews at round 5:30 am ET within the U.S. The outage impacted folks throughout Europe, North America, and Australia as they confronted difficulties accessing ChatGPT.
OpenAI took to X to substantiate the outage and said that they’ve recognized the foundation trigger and are working as quick as attainable to repair the difficulty.
Moreover, nearly all of Google’s providers, like Gmail, Meet, Search, Nest, and Cloud, have been all offline for hundreds this afternoon (June 12). Together with these platforms, Spotify was additionally among the many platforms impacted.
There have been greater than 13,000 incidents of individuals reporting points with Google Cloud by 3:30 pm ET, and greater than 27,000 reviews on Spotify by way of Downdetector. Each Google and Spotify acknowledged the outage and have been updating their respective standing web sites promptly.
Third-party web sites that depend on Google’s providers have additionally been affected by this outage. These apps embrace Snapchat, Discord, and extra.
One UI 8 Beta 2 lands on the Galaxy S25 collection
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Samsung has rolled out the second beta of its One UI 8 replace, that introduced a number of new options, a number of bug fixes, and the newest June safety patch to the Samsung Galaxy S25 collection.
The brand new updates embrace person suggestions function “to enhance interpreter efficiency.” Different notable adjustments have been introduced in, like textual content alignment points for Now Transient, and enhancements throughout widgets, and fingerprint unlock errors have been additionally addressed. Galaxy AI, Clock app, and digital camera app-related bugs additionally appear to have been mounted.
That mentioned, the primary One UI 8 beta appears to be touchdown on extra gadgets and in numerous areas. Based on SamMobile and tipster Tarun Vats on X, Samsung has opened up the primary beta for Galaxy S25 collection customers in India and Poland. It’s also a large 3.6GB replace that’s bringing the June 2025 safety patch.
Extra tales this week
These are a number of the greatest tales from this week. In the meantime, listed here are another tales which are price catching up on:
