Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

Creativity is a shared urge. We all have it, but many stumble on the execution. It’s why we’re not all pro photographers, musicians and movie makers. If you simplify the tools and put them within easy reach of enough people, that starts to change. We’ve seen it with the proliferation of stories across a wide-range of broadly available social media platforms. But apps like Instagram and Snapchat have their limits, especially when it comes to permanence.

After I tried out AirPods at Apple’s big launch event last September, I said I couldn’t see a future where they become as ubiquitous as their white-cabled earphone predecessors. That future is easier to see today. Technically I was correct — AirPods aren’t everywhere — but I have to admit I see them around much more than I thought I would, just seven months after Apple first announced the product.

The world of Huawei phones is a confusing one. The company has a couple of flagship lineages under its Huawei brand name — the smaller Huawei P, the larger Huawei P Plus, and the also-larger Huawei Mate phones. Huawei also has a sub-brand, Honor, which is also globally available, but has a stronger presence in the U.S. and the UK.

In the nearly 35 years since the dawn of the Macintosh computer, Apple has not been what you would call open. The famous veil of secrecy fell on Apple in 1984 for the first Macintosh desktop computer and has rarely, if ever, been lifted. Products like the Mac, iMac, Mac Pro, iPhone, iPad, and more arrive when Apple is good and ready to deliver them and all the rumors in the world won’t make Apple talk. Unless they want to talk.

Well, that was fast. One day after Samsung's big Galaxy S8 reveal, the phone is now available for pre-order at Samsung's website and all major U.S. carriers. We already knew the pricing for both the S8 and the S8+, and there are no surprises here. But why dish out your cash now only to get the device on April 20? Samsung's got at least one good reason: All customers who pre-order the Galaxy S8 or the S8+ before April 20 get a free Gear VR with the new Controller for free.

For Tesla fans, the company's next highly anticipated electric car — the Model 3, slated for release later this year — can't come soon enough. But CEO Elon Musk is already thinking about the next model. Musk being, well, Musk, teased a "Model Y" on Twitter. "Model Y is coming too in a few years," Musk tweeted. "Kinda have to." And that's all we know about the Model Y.

It's that time of year again. Apple has released iOS 10.3 to all users today as a free update that can be downloaded over the air or via iTunes (for whoever does that). There are also updates for macOS, tvOS and watchOS. We're still a while away from the iPhone 8, but the new iOS 10.3 is full of small UI changes and some larger internal updates. Apple's much-needed Find My AirPods feature launches as part of iOS 10.3.

SXSW is 10 days of fun. Many of colleagues (I see you Brett Williams) teased me (on Slack) for having a "great time with all the work down there." But, hey, it's actually work. Attending panel after panel, speaking on your own panels, BBQ after BBQ, happy hour after happy hour isn't easy — no matter how fun it looks from everyone's Snapchat (or Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook) Stories.

Miles Soloman is a 17-year-old taking part in a very cool project that gives students across the UK the chance to work on data taken directly from the space station. One day, as he was looking at radiation levels on the space station, the A-level student noticed an anomaly. Encouraged by his teacher, he emailed scientists at NASA who appreciated the correction and even invited him to help analyse the problem. The research was part of the TimPix project from the .

Being Instagram famous isn't all it's cracked up to be, even when you're a super-famous celebrity. In a new Vogue interview, singer and actress Selena Gomez, who is also the most-followed person on Instagram with 113 million followers, confessed she is no longer in control of her own Instagram account. Citing fatigue with the photo and video-sharing platform, Gomez says she deleted the app from her phone and doesn't have the password to it.