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Aida' is among university students from Iran battling financial stress and emotional trauma, following the recent violent ...

Google’s February 2026 Android system update (Play services 26.04) streamlines new device setup, improves storage purchasing, and adds privacy tools.

When you get a new phone, it is a good idea to debloat it. This means removing pre-installed stock or sponsored apps you don't want or don't plan to use. Preloaded social media apps are a great ...

Google launched Android Emergency Live Video on Wednesday, which allows people to stream video when contacting emergency responders. This feature could help give first responders extra context in ...

Sharing your phone's camera footage can give first responders a better sense of what's happening and how to help. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, ...

Inarguably, one of the worst things that can happen mid-conversation while texting is that your signal drops or you run into a problem sending outgoing messages. There are a wide variety of reasons ...

Various Google services on top of the mobile operating system make up the modern Android experience. Google is now adding a new ‘System services’ settings page to manage all the background services ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. A day after Apple announced iOS 26 at WWDC ...

Android 16 Beta 4 represents a pivotal stage in the development of the Android platform, delivering a range of updates, fixes, and refinements. As the second platform stability update, it finalizes ...

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...

Android updates seem to come fast and furious these days. Or so one might be led to think. Although the February 2025 update might seem small, there are some important things going on under the hood.