Today's theme seems to be DRM. Security researcher David Buchanan has managed to crack open Widevine L3, one of Google's less secure Widevine DRM... by Ryne Hager in Google, News, Security | Continue reading
While Huawei's Chief Financial Officer faces extradition to the United States over claims that the company avoided U.S. sanctions on Iran, Huawei might be... by Corbin Davenport in Carriers, Huawei, Legal, News, Sprint, T-Mobile | Continue reading
There has been a whirlwind of rumors around Google's messaging strategy over the past few days. First we heard that Hangouts might be shutting down, with... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Breaking, Google, News | Continue reading
Niantic promised to bring PVP to Pokémon Go by the end of the year, and today the company has revealed how it should work when it lands later this... by Ryne Hager in Games, News | Continue reading
There has been a big push to improve internet access and make it easier to view online content in NBU markets (Next Billion Users) in recent years.... by Scott Scrivens in Applications, Chrome, Google, News | Continue reading
Yesterday it was reported that Google was planning to sunset Hangouts sometime in 2020. However, according to Scott Johnston, director of product... by Ryne Hager in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading
YouTube has been testing different ways to help you keep watching videos on the web, while simultaneously letting you browse for more content or see detail... by Rita El Khoury in Google, News | Continue reading
Google's new Titan Security chip promises to make the Pixels more secure than ever. | Continue reading
For years, SuperSU was one of the most popular root applications for Android. Chainfire, the creator of SuperSU, handed over development to CCMT in 2015. H... by Corbin Davenport in News, ROMs & Modding | Continue reading
Android has changed tremendously in the last ten years. Returning to modern hardware after our historical series, I was struck by the visual differences ac... by Ryne Hager in Android 9 Pie, Android OS, Design, News | Continue reading
The Snapchat app is still a dumpster fire, but now it's a dumpster fire that can look up products on Amazon. While work continues on the revamped Android a... by Corbin Davenport in Apps, News | Continue reading
Installing an app from the Play Store is an almost magically streamlined experience: You find the app you want, tap “Install,” and sit back whi... by Stephen Schenck in Applications, Development, Google, News, Videos | Continue reading
On this fateful day ten years ago, Google, T-Mobile, and HTC joined forces to announce the T-Mobile G1. It would go on to launch internationally as the HTC... by Ryan Whitwam in Android OS, G1 (Dream), HTC, News, T-Mobile, Videos | Continue reading
Summer is over and most Googlers are back at their desk working on releasing features we were promised at I/O 2018 (and making our lives, especially Cody's... by Rita El Khoury in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading
URLs for Google search results are big, ugly things that contain a lot of information you probably don't need to see most of the time. The team behind Chro... by Taylor Kerns in Chrome, Google, News | Continue reading
Twitter is making a long-desired change to offer users the reverse-chronological feed it once made default. | Continue reading
Back in June, Warner announced a new subscription service called 'DC Universe.' It includes a wide variety of new and old video content, digital comics, an... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, News | Continue reading
RIP. The OnePlus 6T won't have a headphone jack, OnePlus CEO Carl Pei confirmed in an interview with TechRadar. The reason Pei gave is one we've heard befo... by Taylor Kerns in News, OnePlus, OnePlus 6T | Continue reading
Google has added countless features to Chrome, especially the Android version, that are designed to improve functionality on slow connections. It can autom... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Chrome, Google, News | Continue reading
If you're conscious of your own digital security in the modern era, then odds are you use two/multi-factor authentication to secure your more important acc... by Ryne Hager in Google, News, Security | Continue reading
Verizon has decided to remove all speed cap restrictions for first responder subscribers, like the California firefighters who recently experienced throttl... by Ryne Hager in News, Verizon Wireless | Continue reading
What you're seeing above is the first Palm smartphone since the Pre 3 was announced in 2011. Currently codenamed 'Pepito,' this new handset is heade... by David Ruddock in Exclusives, News, Rumors | Continue reading
If you feel like Chrome's been using more RAM on the desktop client since the v67 release a month back, good news: you're not going crazy! Bad news: it def... by David Ruddock in Applications, Chrome, Chrome OS, News | Continue reading
The Google Phone app is getting an update this afternoon for all of the phones out there that use it. We haven't noticed any new changes on the surface, bu... by Cody Toombs in APK Teardown, Applications, Downloads, News, Videos | Continue reading
Early this morning Bloomberg broke the news that the South Korean copyright suit brought against the Fortnite creator Epic Games by PUBG Corp. ha... by Matthew Sholtz in Games, Legal, News | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Google announced that it would start adding metadata to applications downloaded from the Play Store. The metadata serves as proof that... by Corbin Davenport in Editorials, Google, News | Continue reading
Westworld Mobile landed on Android a mere two days ago, and at the time pretty much everyone remarked that the game was very similar to Fallout Shelter. Tu... by Ryne Hager in Games, Legal, News, Videos | Continue reading
Google has removed the ability to book an Uber ride from inside Google Maps. You can still look up the route in Maps and then “request the ride from... by Killian Bell in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading
In a blow to the custom themers out there, Google has responded to the cry for Substratum "support" to return to stock Android. The verdict is that the bre... by Jordan Palmer in Android OS, Google, News | Continue reading
Google Lens is available on most Android phones in some fashion, but now there's another way to access Google's computer vision platform. There's a new sta... by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading
GitHub is one of the most popular sites for hosting repositories of code. Google moved most of its projects to GitHub after Google Code shut down, and... by Corbin Davenport in Development, Microsoft, News | Continue reading
If you have an incredibly detailed memory, you may recall as far back as around 24 hours ago, when we talked about how the "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" set... by Ryne Hager in Google, News, Oreo 8.0/8.1 | Continue reading
Google has been doing an impressive job of pretending Android tablets don't exist for the last few years, and now it's done pretending. Google has updated... by Ryan Whitwam in Android OS, Google, News | Continue reading
Back in February, we noticed in a teardown for the Google Voice app that support for text messages originally sent via Hangouts was coming to the app. Note... by Ryne Hager in Applications, Google, News | Continue reading
Steam Link for iOS and Android was released last week, allowing users to stream games from a local desktop PC to their phone. We reviewed the Android versi... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, News | Continue reading
The mobile web can be frustrating. Smartphones and tablets are becoming faster every year, but modern sites usually outpace them by becoming more complicat... by Corbin Davenport in Editorials, News, Videos | Continue reading
A few years ago, a French computer science student named Florent Revest undertook a project to keep Android Wear smartwatches from dying of obsolescence. T... by Jordan Palmer in News, Smartwatches, Videos, Wearables | Continue reading
Image: EFF Congress is set to vote on a bill that would prevent any government agency from requiring device manufacturers and software developers to implem... by Jordan Palmer in Legal, News | Continue reading
You don't have to be nice to AI assistants. As long as they can understand you, they'll generally do what you ask, regardless of how you ask it. Some paren... by Taylor Kerns in Google, Google Assistant, News | Continue reading
Sharing from one app to another has been a mainstay of Android for years and years. It was one of the features that first drew me to Android: no more copyi... by Rita El Khoury in Editorials, Google | Continue reading
Technically speaking, Android is open-source. This means anyone can look at the operating system's code, or change it - this is how OEMs like HTC and Samsu... by Corbin Davenport in Editorials, News | Continue reading