How Android defeated ‘the biggest botnet you’ve never heard of’
Speaking this week at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Singapore, Android security engineer Maddie Stone shed new light on the years-long battle between Google’s …
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The Galaxy S10 5G only took a few days to run into its first major issue
Samsung will soon launch the Galaxy S10 5G in the US, but the phone is already available in Korea, from the nation’s top three carriers. …
Samsung announces US launch dates for Galaxy Fold and Galaxy S10 5G
Samsung unveiled two of the most intriguing phones of the year — the Galaxy Fold and the Galaxy S10 5G — at its Unpacked event …
YouTube TV gets nine new channels, raises price to $50 per month
The wave of streaming service price hikes continues this week, as Google announced that its monthly subscription for YouTube TV jumped from $39.99 to $49.99 …
Thousands of Amazon employees hear what you say to Alexa
Amazon has thousands of employees across the globe who actively listen to Alexa recordings from Echo devices as part of a broad effort to improve …
OnePlus 7 Pro is real and it’s coming this May, an insider says
OnePlus will launch a series of three phones soon, a report said earlier this week. That’s something the Chinese smartphone maker hasn’t done in the …
Google’s Pixel is winning over plenty of Android users, but iOS users are staying put
A new study published by Counterpoint Research sounds like good news for Google’s efforts to expand the user base of its generally well-regarded Pixel smartphone …
Google wants to start making more money from Maps, and we all know what that means
Google is reportedly about to bring a version of the same playbook that turned its best-in-class search engine into an unstoppable money machine over to …
Apple is rumored to be replacing iTunes on the Mac with something even better
iTunes used to be the app I used most frequently on my Mac. It’s where I’d go to buy and listen to music, enjoy podcasts, …
LG’s transparent foldable smartphone design barely looks like a phone at all
It was probably inevitable that we’d eventually see a smartphone design that combines transparent screens with a foldable form factor. LG has just patented a …
Galaxy Fold hands-on video hints that AT&T will sell Samsung’s first foldable phone
Samsung’s first foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold is coming soon to various markets. Samsung confirmed as much weeks ago when it finally gave the handset …
Samsung’s Galaxy A80 has one of the wildest all-screen designs we’ve ever seen
After the initial wave of iPhone X copycats, Android smartphone makers realized there are other ways to make all-screen phones without replicating the notch. Chinese …
The three simple reasons why I won’t switch to Android anytime soon
It took a while, but iPhone and Android are closer than ever, especially when it comes to design and hardware. The iPhone is very well …
Huge leak shows us the OnePlus 7 Pro that we didn’t see coming
When OnePlus unveils its next flagship series later this quarter, it might do something it has never done before, and I’m not just talking about …
Netgear unveils the Nighthawk AX4: The first Intel-based Wi-Fi 6 router
Netgear has unveiled a family of new Wi-Fi 6 routers today, including the Netgear Nighthawk AX4 — the first Intel-based Wi-Fi 6 router on the …
This high-tech backpack comes with a fingerprint anti-theft lock system
We take biometric authentication for granted when it comes to smartphones, laptops, and other gadgets, and it’s time the same technology is put to good …
Facebook is finally being forced to take privacy, security, and transparency seriously
Facebook has had a couple of rough years when it comes to transparency, user privacy, and security. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal from last spring …
Roku just got a new update that makes it easier to use in almost every way
One of those super-annoying headaches that goes hand in hand with cord-cutting and the era of on-demand streaming video entertainment is the maintenance of multiple …
Apple just made the experience of upgrading to a new Mac far less painful
While the cost alone is a deterrent for many shoppers, the scariest risk when upgrading to a new computer is the risk of losing all …
China’s plan to ban Bitcoin mining might actually be good news for the crypto market
Bitcoin and the entire crypto market received what can easily be perceived as bad news initially, as China is looking to make another significant play …
The one tiny thing that made me give up my iPhone for Android
I’ve been an iPhone user since almost the very beginning. I didn’t own an original iPhone at launch, but began using Apple’s smartphones with the …
Top Apple insider claims major MacBook Pro redesign isn’t expected until 2021
Apple is expected to release new Mac hardware this year, but a reliable insider suggests the massive MacBook Pro redesign some fans might be waiting …
Microsoft’s new Edge browser might get me to dump Chrome for the first time in a decade
Like millions of others, I abandoned Firefox and Safari in favor of Google’s Chrome browser at the end of the last decade, and despite a …
Microsoft just fixed one of the most annoying things about Windows
One of the most annoying Windows features ever, one that lasted through many iterations of Microsoft’s popular operating system, was the prompt to safely remove …
The most exciting foldable phone of 2019 goes on sale in June
When Huawei unveiled the foldable Mate X phone at MWC 2019 earlier this year, it became clear the Chinese company had a much better design …
iOS users who don’t own an Apple Watch yet are just risking their health at this point
Reddit user ClockworkWXVII shared a harrowing experience over the weekend, writing in a post about being at home laying in bed, watching TV and eating, …
Google may copy Apple in Android Q with a 3D Touch rival called ‘Deep Press’
One of the defining features of 2016’s iPhone 6s was 3D Touch, which allowed users to press harder on the display in order to change …
Bang & Olufsen’s new TV costs more than a car, has speakers that spread like wings
The price tag that tops $20,000 isn’t the only dramatic feature of the gorgeous Beovision Harmony, the OLED TV that Bang & Olufsen is showcasing …
Samsung is reportedly planning to launch four Galaxy Note 10 models in 2019
Several recent reports claimed that Samsung would be doing the unthinkable with this year’s Galaxy Note 10 series by launching a smaller, more affordable version …
These incredible iPhone 11 rumors can only mean one thing, and it’s terrible for Android
Year after year, for nearly 12 years now, Apple has released new iPhone models jam-packed with features and hardware that routinely set new standards for …
