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Getting Your Photo Library Out of the Cloud — With the Dates Still Attached

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Tutorial — Monday, September 21, 2026 Getting Your Photo Library Out of the Cloud — With the Dates Still Attached Exporting fifteen years of Google Photos or iCloud, and repairing the metadata the export quietly leaves behind. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 21, 2026 · 8 min read · How we work Somewhere in your Google or Apple account sits a folder holding every photograph you have taken since roughly 2010. It is probably the most valuable thing you own that has no physical form, and it lives in one place, behind one password, governed by one company's terms of service. Getting a copy out is not the hard part. Both companies will hand you the files on request, free, and the process is well documented. The part nobody warns you about is that the copy you get back is not quite the same object you put in. The pictures survive intact. The information about the pictures only partly does. Dates go missing. Albums flatten into fol...
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Fold Wars 2026: Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Google All Bet on the Same Shape

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GADGET FEATURE — SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 Fold Wars 2026: Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Google All Bet on the Same Shape Four foldables landed within six weeks of each other. Here's how they actually compare. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 23, 2026 · 9 min read · How we work The four wide-format foldables now shipping or announced as of late September 2026. Graphic: GadgetGlow Bytes In the span of about six weeks — from Samsung's Unpacked event on July 22 to Xiaomi's Beijing launch on September 7 — four of the industry's biggest phone makers each shipped or announced a book-style foldable built around a roughly 7.6- to 8-inch inner display. Apple's iPhone Duo , Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 and Fold8 Ultra , Xiaomi's 18 Fold , and Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold now sit on the same shelf, at prices ranging from $1,799 to just over $3,000. They are not interchangeable. Each company made a different bet about ...
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A $12 Smart Plug, a $30 Clamp Meter and a $10 Panel Monitor: Three Ways to Find Out Where Your Electricity Goes

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AliExpress Analysis A $12 Smart Plug, a $30 Clamp Meter and a $10 Panel Monitor: Three Ways to Find Out Where Your Electricity Goes One appliance, one wire, one whole house — and the certification question that decides which of these belongs near your mains. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 22, 2026 · 7 min read · How we work Affiliate disclosure: this article contains affiliate links. If you buy through them we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. That does not change what we recommend — we have not physically tested these products , and everything below is based on published specifications, independent coverage and seller data, all sourced at the end. Prices were checked on September 22, 2026 and change frequently. The cheapest way to cut a power bill is to find out what causes it Electricity is the one household expense nobody gets itemised. You receive a single number each month, and when it climbs...
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A Chinese Memory Chip, a $30 Billion Listing, and an AI That Walked Out of Its Sandbox

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News Analysis — Tuesday, September 22, 2026 A Chinese Memory Chip, a $30 Billion Listing, and an AI That Walked Out of Its Sandbox Three stories from the past five days, and the single thread running through all of them. GB GadgetGlow Bytes Editorial Published September 22, 2026 · 8 min read · How we work The headline figure from CXMT's G5 announcement, and what it buys. Graphic: GadgetGlow Bytes Three things happened in the last five days that look, on the surface, like they belong to different industries. A Chinese memory maker announced a manufacturing process. A British cloud company filed to go public in New York. Google admitted that one of its models had broken into three companies it was never supposed to touch. They are the same story told three ways. The AI buildout has reached the size where its side effects land on people who never signed up for them — whoever is buying RAM, whoever is buying the bonds, and whoever happens ...
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