NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Senior Planet from AARP is celebrating a decade of helping older adults build technology skills and connect with their communities through its programs in Montgomery County, Maryland, and North Country, New York. Over the past 10 years, both programs have offered free technology classes, community activities, and individualized support to help older adults navigate the digital world, pursue their interests, and make meaningful connections.

Together, the two programs have delivered more than 15,000 class sessions and recorded more than 181,000 program participations. While serving different communities, both programs have evolved their technology education and social offerings to meet local needs, from expanding access in rural communities to providing multilingual instruction.

“Often, participants come to Senior Planet for help with a phone or tablet and end up staying for the community,” said Marisa Giorgi, Vice President of Programs at Senior Planet from AARP. “In North Country, that might mean joining a tech and knitting group or attending a monthly mixer. In Montgomery County, we’ve worked with more than 100 local organizations over the past decade to bring technology education to older adults throughout the community. Seeing the connections these programs have fostered over the last 10 years has been incredibly meaningful, and we look forward to building on that work in the years ahead.”

In North Country, Senior Planet has expanded its reach over the past decade to serve older adults across all seven counties in the region. Launched in Plattsburgh and Malone, New York, with funding from Empire State Development, the program has continued to grow with support from former Assemblymember Billy Jones and current Assemblymember Michael Cashman. The program expanded its virtual offerings in 2020, helping more older adults access classes and activities from home.

In Montgomery County, Senior Planet has tailored its programming to meet the diverse needs of the local community. Classes are offered in Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Spanish, making technology education more accessible to older adults who prefer to learn in those languages. The program has seen growing participation over the past decade, with classes on iPad basics, social media, artificial intelligence, and recognizing fraud and scams among the most popular offerings.

Both programs will host anniversary celebrations honoring the participants, instructors, community organizations, and supporters who have helped shape the programs over the past decade. Event details include:

• North Country: Friday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m. at the Senior Planet center in Champlain Centre (60 Smithfield Boulevard, Suite 14, Plattsburgh, NY 12901).
• Montgomery County: Friday, Dec. 11, from noon to 2 p.m. at White Oak Senior Center (1700 April Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20904). Lunch will be provided.

To learn more about Senior Planet classes, activities and resources, visit seniorplanet.org.

About Senior Planet from AARP

Senior Planet from AARP is a community of people 60 and older who are learning to thrive in the digital world. Senior Planet programs are offered free of charge online and in-person at seven Senior Planet locations across the country to help older adults build technology skills to allow them to improve their health, make new friendships, save money, and advocate in their communities. Senior Planet curriculum includes over 150 multi-week courses, lectures, and workshops. To learn more, visit www.seniorplanet.org or follow @SeniorPlanet on social media.

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Vivo T6x 5G: Spotted on India’s BIS database

The Vivo T6x 5G has been spotted on India’s certification website with model number V2652. This confirms that the device will soon launch in India.

Previously, the Vivo T6x 5G device was spotted in the Bluetooth SIG database alongside the iQOO Z12x 5G smartphone. It is rumoured that both devices could be rebranded versions of each other, just like their predecessors (Vivo T5x 5G launched as the rebranded version of iQOO Z11x 5G).

In the coming days, we may come across some more details related to the upcoming Vivo T6x 5G.

For now, let’s take a look at the specs of the Vivo T5x 5G

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The next chapter of CR-V is taking shape. Arriving next year, the all-new 2028 Honda CR-V will feature a standard hybrid powertrain, a new platform, and a bold new design. Learn more: https://t.co/owCPcqsx6q pic.twitter.com/n5QSIxkOjX

— Honda (@Honda) November 12, 2026

2028 Honda CR-V

The new platform and powertrain of the 7^th-generation CR-V will greatly increase the standard power and efficiency of America’s best-selling SUV. The 7^th-generation CR-V is the first of several hybrid models Honda plans to launch in North America by 2030.

The 2028 CR-V will introduce the next generation of the Honda Hybrid system with improved performance and efficiency. The 5^th generation of the Honda two-motor hybrid system has been enhanced through advancements such as expanding the range where the engine operates most efficiently and an increase in the driving efficiency of the hybrid unit. A newly developed electric AWD unit will allow highly precise and responsive motor control.

The all-new CR-V will mark the debut of an all-new Honda platform being developed by combining various innovative technologies to realise both high body rigidity and light weight at a high level and a modular architecture that enables greater parts commonality.

The new Honda Hybrid power unit will be built at the Honda Transmission Plant in Ohio (TMP-O) using domestic and globally made parts. The Anna Engine plant is also retooling an existing production line to produce the next-generation 4-cylinder Atkinson-cycle engine powering the CR-V and future vehicles built in North America.

Honda is aiming to improve the fuel efficiency of the next-generation hybrid model by more than 10%, further advancing a unique Honda driving experience.

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Introducing Claude Meetings: add Claude to your team’s video call and it builds docs, whiteboards, and other artifacts with you while you’re still talking.

Starting to roll out in beta on Team and Enterprise plans. pic.twitter.com/qlZYTcXBsC

— Claude (@claudeai) November 12, 2026

Claude Meetings

With Claude Meetings, Claude joins your video calls as a visible participant. Your team can ask Claude questions during the meeting out loud or in chat. By default, Claude answers in writing, and it can use your connected tools with your permission.

Claude also works with you live to build docs, whiteboards or other artifacts, while teammates on the invite refine them. It writes the notes and action items, so no one on the call has to.

Claude writes up what the team has said so far, and teammates on the invite can edit the plan while you keep talking. When you start discussing timelines, someone asks Claude to put it on a whiteboard, and the team works on the schedule alongside the doc.

Before the meeting ends, someone asks Claude to share a recap with the team. After the call, any notes, action items, plan, and whiteboard are on the meeting’s page in claude.ai. Later, you can go back to meetings you were part of and ask Claude about them, or add Claude to the next one from your calendar in claude.ai.

The company is working with partners like Gong, Attention, Granola, Fireflies.ai, Otter, and Plaud, so you will soon be able to send a meeting’s transcript to the tools your team already uses.

Security and Privacy

Claude adds a separate page for each meeting in claude.ai(opens in new tab) with the notes, transcript, and anything it built. People from your organisation on the invite can see it and edit what Claude made, and it can be shared with others in your organisation from the page.

By default, Claude is set to stay out of calls when someone from outside your organisation is invited, and to leave if someone from outside joins partway through. An admin can allow Claude on calls with outside guests. On those calls, Claude posts its notice in the call’s chat but doesn’t reply there, and what guests say is included in the notes and transcript.

Claude uses each person’s connected tools with that person’s permission. When Claude joins, it appears as a participant and posts a notice in the call’s chat. It saves a transcript, summary, and screen descriptions, not audio.

Before you add Claude or turn on auto-join, make sure everyone on your calls is OK with being transcribed.

Availability

Claude Meeting support is currently available for Google Meet, with other platforms coming soon.

On Team plans, inviting Claude to your meetings is available by default, and an admin can turn it off. On Enterprise plans, an admin turns it on for all or part of the organisation. While it’s in beta, it isn’t available to some organisations, including those with zero data retention, HIPAA-ready configuration, or customer-managed encryption keys.

During the beta, Claude’s notes and transcripts are free on Team and Enterprise plans. So are its answers in your calls, unless an answer uses one of your connected tools, which counts toward your plan’s usage.

The docs, whiteboards and other artifacts Claude makes in a call are free through 10^th February, 2027.

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Samsung’s Intelligent Eyewear

The collection combines Samsung’s mobile engineering expertise with 30 distinctive designs from Gentle Monster and Warby Parker for comfortable, stylish everyday wear. Responsibly designed with everyone’s comfort in mind, the intelligent eyewear has controls that put the user in charge and has privacy protections for both the wearer and people around them.

Gentle Monster and Warby Parker bring their design identities to a combined lineup of 30 designs, offering customers a wide range of frame shapes, colours, sizes, and lens treatments to match their personal style.

Gentle Monster brings bold, disruptive aesthetics, while Warby Parker offers timeless designs with a refined appeal.

Weighing around 41g, the eyewear was carefully designed to balance weight, structural strength, and comfort, making it suitable for extended use throughout the day. With Gemini built in, the intelligent eyewear provides intuitive, hands-free experiences:

• Explore and understand surroundings: Users can ask questions about what they see — such as identifying an unfamiliar landmark or learning about an object — continuing the conversation naturally with follow-up questions.
• Enhance daily productivity: The intelligent eyewear helps users turn information into action. For example, a user can capture a whiteboard during a meeting, ask Gemini to summarise the key takeaways and save them directly into Samsung Notes.
• Translate and navigate on the go: Users can translate a restaurant menu or find their way around unfamiliar places with turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps.
• Stay connected, hands-free: The intelligent eyewear allows users to effortlessly stay connected. It can automatically prioritise, group, and summarise notifications based on context, read important updates aloud and enable natural voice responses. Whether making calls or responding to messages while their hands are occupied, users can stay connected on the go.

A 12MP HDR camera provides visual context for Gemini while supporting high-resolution photos and clear video recording. Open-ear speakers and a four-microphone array enable clear voice interactions, calls and audio playback.

The intelligent eyewear is powered by the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 platform, boasts up to 9 hours of battery life on a single charge, and up to 72 hours with a fully charged charging case. It utilises a split-computing system to offload a portion of the processing load to the connected device.

Responsible design is built into the practical experience:

• Clear recording indicators: When capturing images or recording video for your gallery, an LED indicates that the camera is active, while the wearer simultaneously receives a visual notification via an inner light and a sound. Built-in safeguards are designed to disable camera capture if the external LED is covered or not functioning properly.
• Considerate audio design: Open-ear speakers are designed to minimise sound leakage while helping wearers remain aware of their surroundings. In conversations with Gemini Live, surrounding sounds, including other people’s voices, are filtered to help protect bystander privacy.
• User control and data privacy: Users retain control over both app-specific permissions and their Gemini activity. Visuals collected by Gemini are not used for AI model training or ad targeting. When users ask Gemini about what they’re looking at, the intelligent eyewear is designed to automatically redact bystanders’ faces before responding.
• Responsible use: The intelligent eyewear is designed for users aged 18 and over, with age verification required for device activation and app downloads.

Specs

Availability

Gentle Monster Intelligent Eyewear and Warby Parker Intelligent Eyewear will be available in select markets beginning Dec. 10, 2026. Both collections will launch in the U.S., while Gentle Monster Intelligent Eyewear will also be available in Korea.

Pre-orders for both collections begin today, ahead of general availability. Customers will be able to experience and purchase the intelligent eyewear across Warby Parker’s retail and online channels, with purchases also available through Gentle Monster’s official online store. Hands-on demonstrations will also be available at select Samsung retail locations from Dec. 10.

In the U.S., Warby Parker Intelligent Eyewear will start at $395, while Gentle Monster Intelligent Eyewear will range from $449 to $489, depending on the model.

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The company has already started teasing the key details of this upcoming smartphone series, and it has now shared some new details.

Honor 700 series: New details revealed

The Honor 700 series features an AI-powered dual-screen. You can add AI-customised stickers to the back screen. The series is equipped with a 9000 mAh Qinghai Lake battery and a 200MP main camera.

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It boasts a 4K cinematic live experience, a LiveVideo 3-second movie and supports a 200mm G200 teleconverter. The series boasts a Snapdragon 8 dual flagship chip: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC (likely Honor 700 Pro) and Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 (likely Honor 700). The models are equipped with Honor RF Enhancement Chip C3.

According to Honor China’s website, all three models are listed in the same four colours: Powder Mist, Cold White, Blue Tone and Clear Sky. The memory configurations differ for the models:

• Honor 700: 12/256GB, 12/512GB, 16/256GB, 16/512GB
• Honor 700 Pro: 12/256GB, 12/512GB, 16/512GB
• Honor 700S: 12/256GB, 12/512GB

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X – Up to 20 Photos and Videos Now Supported in a Single Post

As per what has been shared by Jonah Katz, Mobile Engineering Lead at X, the platform has increased its photo and video limit after 10 years, allowing users to include up to 20 media items in a single post. Katz announced the update on the 12th of November 2026 at 11:55 PM IST, pointing to its availability for users from today.

Speaking more, we checked the feature on the web version of X and found that the increased limit is already available. Users can now share more than four photos and videos together without having to split them across separate posts.

About its availability on smartphones, Android and iOS users who are yet to see the feature should update their X apps to the respective versions mentioned below.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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The brand has now teased the Oppo Reno 17 Pro’s camera details on Weibo.

Oppo Reno 17 Pro: Camera features revealed

The Oppo Reno 17 Pro features a 200MP main camera with ultra-clear resolution. The device supports 4K 60fps video recording across all focal lengths, ensuring clear and stable footage.

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A 1.5K original image game engine delivers ultra-clear visuals and smooth high-frame-rate gameplay.

Previously, the Pro model was revealed to be equipped with the MediaTek Dimensity 8550 SoC. The series runs on ColorOS 17, and the company has promised smooth performance even after six years of use. The series will also boast the Lingxi Touch chip and the Shanhai Communication Enhancement chip N1.

Oppo Pad Air 6 & Oppo Watch 5: New details teased

The Oppo Watch 5 comes with a 9.2mm ultra-thin body and weighs 25g. It boasts DIY watch faces, FatMax Super Fat Burning Mode, 13 sleep monitoring features, and Menstrual cycle prediction.

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There is a full-scene fluid cloud for high-speed rail and aeroplanes, so that users don’t have to take out their phones. It offers up to 10 days of battery life.

The Oppo Pad Air 6 weighs 603g and comes with a 6.89mm ultra-thin body. The tablet features a new-generation bright light soft screen. The display boasts a 2.5K screen resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. It runs on ColorOS 17, supports 5G connectivity and it is powered by 10050 mAh battery. The all-new Oppo Notes app boasts powerful AI capabilities.

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Along with the Oppo Reno 17 series, the company will also introduce Oppo Pad Air 6 and Oppo Watch 5 in China next week.

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Vivo X500 Series – Indian Retail Box MRPs Tipped

As per what has been shared by tipster Sanju Choudhary, the 12GB/256GB variants of the Vivo X500, X500 Pro, and X500 Pro Max carry retail box MRPs of ₹1,69,999, ₹1,99,999, and ₹2,14,999 respectively.

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Vivo X500 Pro Max – BOX Label

As stated above, the MRPs printed on the retail boxes are normally higher, and they should not be taken as the actual launch prices of the smartphones.

Speaking more, the same tipster had earlier suggested that the tentative launch price of the Vivo X500 series could start at ₹1,19,999 in India, and the previously tipped prices also included a 12GB/512GB variant of the X500 Pro Max and an X500 Pro Max Master Set.

About the memory options, neither of the tipster’s updates has revealed the complete list of configurations that will be offered for each smartphone in India and with the launch still weeks away, we won’t have to wait for it more.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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Realme ColorOS 17 Early Access – Applications Open for Nine Smartphones

As per what has been announced, applications for the ColorOS 17 Early Access programme opened on the 12th of November 2026 for all nine devices listed below, and only a limited number of users will be accepted. However, the exact number of available slots has not been mentioned on the announcement pages.

Speaking more, the eligible smartphones are the Realme NARZO 90x 5G, C85 5G, 15x 5G, P4 5G, P4 Pro 5G, 16 5G, NARZO 90 5G, 15T 5G, and 15 5G. The required software versions before applying, along with the respective Early Access builds, have also been revealed.

About the application process, users should make sure that their devices have at least 60% battery and are running one of the required software versions mentioned for their respective models. They will also need to fill in the questionnaire provided on the announcement page, making sure that details such as IMEI 1 are entered correctly.

Following this, users can apply through Settings → About phone → Software update → Software update settings → Trial version → Early Access → Apply Now → Submit → Done.

To note, these applications are for the ColorOS 17 Early Access programme, and the announcements do not mark the stable rollout for these nine smartphones. With limited slots available, submitting an application does not necessarily guarantee admission to the programme.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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