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AI & Tech

F-Droid’s Biggest Update in a Decade: New UI, Smoother Installs

F-Droid 2.0 marks the first major overhaul in ten years, featuring a complete rewrite using Kotlin Compose to significantly improve…

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AI & Tech

Adobe Premiere for Android is free

Adobe Premiere for Android has launched as a free, professional-grade mobile editing tool that fills the gap left by the…

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BigTech Companies

Why Google Ads Show Less Often: Limited Ad Serving Explained

Google’s Limited Ad Serving policy restricts account-level visibility in auctions without formal suspensions, causing sharp declines in impressions and increased…

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AI & Tech

Google to Pay £260m to Settle UK Play Store Fee Lawsuit

Google agreed to pay £260 million to settle a UK class action lawsuit regarding alleged unfair Play Store fees, avoiding…

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AI & Tech

Google Urges Android Devs to Cut Memory Use

Google is enforcing strict memory usage limits on Android apps via the Play Store to address industry-wide hardware constraints and…

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AI & Tech

Pixel Weather update adds new icon, renames to Weather Brief

Google's Pixel Weather app has received a visual overhaul, removing the blue sky backdrop as part of a broader effort…

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AI & Tech

Pixel 11 adds unified Pixel search, tucked into app drawer

Pixel search is a new Google feature on Pixel devices that consolidates personal data (apps, Drive, Gmail, Photos, Messages, etc.)…

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AI & Tech

Pixel 11’s HiLight feature gets a useful companion app

Google's Pixel 11 Pro ships with a severely limited HiLight notification LED, activating only for face-down Gemini interactions and calls…

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BigTech Companies

Google gets 7 days to fix Play Store antitrust issue

A federal judge has ruled that Google is not complying with the spirit of its antitrust remedy order, citing unnecessary…

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Gadgets

Google Pixel 11 deal: save up to $175 with this offer

Google has launched a new Play Points perk offering up to $175 off Pixel 11 series devices and the Pixel…

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BigTech Companies

Google hosts rival app stores in Play Store after Epic loss

Google now hosts the third-party game store Aptoide on the Play Store for US users, ending its exclusive status as…

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AI & Tech

Google Play’s first rival app store launches in US

Android users in the US can now directly download the third-party gaming marketplace Aptoide from the Google Play Store, marking…

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AI & Tech

Wear OS Gemini overlay now rolling out to Pixel Watch

Gemini on Wear OS is getting a refreshed interface inspired by the Neural Expressive design language, shifting from a full-screen…

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BigTech Companies

Google expands Limited Ad Serving to all Ads products

Google is rolling out Limited Ad Serving across its entire Ads ecosystem, capping impressions for higher-risk accounts while giving vetted…

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AI & Tech

Turn Your Old Tablet Into an Android Auto Head Unit

An old Android tablet can be repurposed as a DIY Android Auto head unit using the free/open-source app Headunit Revived,…

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AI & Tech

Android’s Flighty rival Aviate is now available

Aviate, an Android flight tracking app designed to compete with Apple’s Flighty, has officially launched on the Google Play Store…

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AI & Tech

How I permanently stopped invasive ads on my parents’ Android phones

The author discovered that deceptive pop-ups mimicking system alerts are rampant on Android, with even Google's own apps serving scam…

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Digital Publishing

Google Pixel Launcher improves, but still lacks 5 key features

The Pixel Launcher lacks proper third-party icon pack support, while competitors like Samsung and OnePlus already allow them. Missing features…

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BigTech Companies

EU Fines Google $1 Billion for Prioritizing Its Own Search Services

The European Commission fined Google $1 billion for violating the Digital Markets Act by abusing its dominance in EU search…

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AI & Tech

Google fined $1 billion for EU antitrust violations

The EU fined Google's parent company Alphabet €890 million ($1 billion) for violating the Digital Markets Act in two ways:…

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