Google rolled out a healthy helping of updates to Android Auto recently, breathing delightfully fresh air into a stale OS. Gemini Intelligence was the highlight of this update, porting agentic AI capabilities over to compatible cars. Gemini can read your messages, emails, and more, give you context in natural language, and basically let you do almost everything you can on your smartphone with Gemini. While Gemini on the go is certainly the star of the show, you might have missed a slightly older announcement from May 2026 that also included plenty of other interesting features.

As a long-term Android user, MagSafe was the biggest source of envy for me when looking at iPhones. Built-in magnets inside smartphones open the door to a million creative accessories, eliminating the need for 3M adhesive or annoying clamps. It is a beautiful solution to a hundred different accessory-related problems.

Anyone who suffers from motion sickness like me knows that using a smartphone in a moving vehicle is a bad idea. Focusing on a single point as you move at a high speed alleviates motion-induced nausea, and if that something is a bright screen that flickers, you’re guaranteed to have a really bad time of it.