From app bubbles to 3D emojis and Gemini Intelligence, Android 17 is packed. Here's everything confirmed so far.

Xreal has always occupied a somewhat different niche in the smartglasses market. Rather than normal-looking glasses with some smart features, the company offers a more immersive AR experience that's ...

In brief: Despite dating back to 1993 and the GSM era, SMS codes remain fully active across authentication and identity verification workflows. Microsoft is among the bigger tech players pushing to ...

Microsoft is sunsetting its long-abandoned SMS Organizer app. Users have started receiving notifications about the shutdown. It also recommended that users migrate their data to another app. Microsoft ...

Following The Android Show, Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studio’s new capability to build native Android apps. The web-based AI Studio now lets you build native ...

Microsoft is officially discontinuing SMS verification for personal account logins, pushing users toward more secure passkey authentication methods. PCWorld reports that SMS-based authentication ...

New emoji, AI widgets, and AirDrop for (almost) everyone. New emoji, AI widgets, and AirDrop for (almost) everyone. is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked ...

Android 17, expected to roll out next month, will introduce several security and privacy features focused on device theft, threat detection, and banking scam calls. Google will be expanding ...

The Google I/O annual developer conference is around the corner—May 19—but in what is quickly becoming a tradition, Google announced new features for Android and Gemini a week early. The news came on ...

Every year, Google front-loads its Android announcements in a separate pre-show the week before its annual I/O conference. This year, the company did exactly that, and The Android Show: I/O Edition ...

Police have arrested and brought 44 charges against three men for allegedly operating an SMS blaster in downtown Toronto. The scheme, which began in November 2025, is the “first known instance” of an ...

Chrome on Android now lets users share their approximate location with websites rather than their precise location, Google announced this week. The tech giant says that while some cases require ...