Android 17 Beta 2 introduced several visual and functional upgrades, as highlighted by 9to5Google. Here, you can see how they look, ranging from Bubbles to a more privacy-friendly Contacts picker. The ...

First look: Silicon-based lenses may be the latest front in the privacy wars. As companies race to build smarter eyewear capable of facial recognition and real-time AI analysis, one independent ...

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

A Google bug report on the Chromium Issue Tracker today has inadvertently leaked the Android desktop interface for the first time. The bug report published today about Chrome Incognito tabs was ...

Yesterday, Apple and Google announced that they have teamed up to make it easier to switch between Android and iPhone devices. The companies say they have developed new features that make it easier ...

Android beta users can now leave the beta and update to stable Android 16 QPR2 without wiping their data. You’ll need to head over to Google’s website, find your device, and select “opt out” to do so.

Switching up the release schedule could bring new features to third-party Android phones much faster. Switching up the release schedule could bring new features to third-party Android phones much ...

The Swift Android workgroup has announced nightly preview releases of the Swift SDK for Android, a tool kit for developing Android mobile applications with Apple’s Swift language. Instructions for ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With iPhone users spending nearly double that of Android customers on apps and accessories, it's a bit of a twist to find that Android ...

Four months after announcing the project, Swift.org has released the first Swift SDK for Android in preview. “Swift has matured significantly over the past decade, extending from cloud services to ...

Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer has been writing ...