This new technology could make spotting fake products easier for everyone

Researchers have developed anti-counterfeit labels that can be verified using a smartphone, achieving nearly 97.5% accuracy while simplifying product authentication.

Sunbird relaunches its iMessage app for Android, three years after a privacy scandal shut it down

Sunbird Messaging returns to Android after its 2023 shutdown, with encryption fixes, a priority inbox, and an AI assistant coming later this year.

Are your Android apps secretly sharing your location with advertisers? Some developers are accidentally leaving on this critical data-invading setting when using third-party SDKs

Some apps are gathering highly-localized location data and feeding it back to advertisers, data brokers, and even the military.

Sunbird relaunched its iMessage app for Android users after three years away
Sunbird relaunched its iMessage app for Android users after three years away

Sunbird Messaging is back on the Google Play Store, offering Android users blue bubble privileges in iMessage complete with reactions and high quality videos for $2.99 a month. Apple and Google have made cross platform messaging better in recent years with support for RCS, but Android users can still cause issues in iMessage group chats, […]

The Pixel Tag may be Google’s answer to AirTag, right down to the price

Google’s rumored Pixel Tag may cost just 10 cents less than an AirTag, leaving Android integration and still-unconfirmed tracking hardware to justify the nearly identical price.

Is the Google Pixel 11 your next phone? Here are all the latest leaks rated, from higher prices to its new HiLight feature
Is the Google Pixel 11 your next phone? Here are all the latest leaks rated, from higher prices to its new HiLight feature

The Google Pixel 11 series could be an odd mix of upgrades and downgrades, going by the latest leaks. Here’s how accurate we think these rumors are.

Google Assistant will shut down for good on Android and Wear OS in September — here’s what you need to do next
Google Assistant will shut down for good on Android and Wear OS in September — here’s what you need to do next

Google has confirmed that Google Assistant will stop working on Android and Wear OS in the near future.

Google Assistant finally has a shutdown date, and it’s only weeks away

Google will begin phasing out Assistant on eligible mobile devices from September 4, replacing it with Gemini while leaving some unsupported devices, cars, and smart-home hardware temporarily unaffected.

Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month

Google Assistant’s days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4th. The announcement came in an email apparently sent to […]