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Fortnite welcomes Android users
Google fans no longer get an automatic L, Epic Games has opened pre-registration for Fortnite Android. Fortnite Battle Royale is Epic Games 100 player, last player standing megahit. Cartoon-y as heck,...
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Tweaks made to Android OS are causing massive security holes
Last month, I used up a good chunk of text talking about how much I’ve come to enjoy using Android-powered smartphones. Unfortunately, a story I ran across over at Wired has convinced me that, at least...
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Smartphones enlisted in the war against tuberculosis
Tuberculosis was a disease that Doc Holliday died from; in old-timey novels, it’s often called consumption: a disease that sees those afflicted with it coughing delicately into hankies and later dying...
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Google to add Xbox One controller compatibility to Android
Given a choice of which controller I’d rather use to play games, my response is always Xbox One. I like how beefy it feels run my hands. I bought one for playing Steam games with a while back and have...
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Google changed the settings on Android phones without their owners' permission
A decade ago, Steve Jobs admitted in an interview that Apple had the means to remotely kill core functionalities and apps on iOS devices. Apple purportedly made this possible to ensure that their...
View ArticleGoogle releases Android encrypted DNS app that will help beat censorship
Google sister-company Jigsaw (previously) has released an Android app called Intra that encrypts DNS queries, which allows Android users to bypass one of the most common forms of internet censorship....
View ArticleGoogle to charge hardware makers up to $40 per device for Android mobile apps
Google [Alphabet Inc.] will soon charge hardware companies up to $40 per device to use Google apps, under a new licensing plan that will replace one struck down by the EU earlier this year as...
View ArticleThe new Pixel phone has a bizarre, obscure "opt out" arbitration waiver
Binding arbitration is corporate America's favorite dirty trick: to use a product, you are forced to give up your right to sue if the company hurts you, cheats you, or even kills you. But if you buy a...
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Review: The Oneplus 6T is almost as nice as a flagship handset for a fraction...
When I need to futz with an Android device, OnePlus is the company that I typically turn to. For the money, you won't find a more capable handset in North America. The OnePlus 6, thanks largely to its...
View Article200+ Googlers plan company-wide walkout Thu. Nov 1 over alleged sexual...
More than 200 engineers at Google are said to be preparing a 'women's walk', in which people walk out of work, after claims that the company protected sexual harasser executives, and offered them...
View ArticleMoment is offering a new telephoto smartphone lens and I'm so there for it
I'm a big fan of Moment's lens system for Android and iOS smartphones. The company is staffed by folks who are just as passionate about mobile photography as I am. More importantly, they seem to...
View Article'Verizon Gaming' cloud-based games service coming soon to Android
'Verizon Gaming' is coming soon to Android, and a beta is already running on the Nvidia Shield, per a report from Chris Welch at Verge. “The Verge can report that Verizon Gaming is already up and...
View ArticleAndroid malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running...
Malware authors have a problem: they want their software to run aggressively when no one is looking at it, but to shut down entirely if the device it's running on is actually in some malware...
View ArticleIos and Android app stores both host Saudi government app that lets men track...
Senator Ron Wyden has publicly denounced both Apple and Google for hosting mobile apps that connect to Absher, a Saudi government service designed to allow Saudi men to track their spouses and...
View ArticleMobile apps built with Facebook's SDK secretly shovel mountains of personal...
If you need to build an app quickly and easily, you might decide to use Facebook's SDK, which has lots of bells and whistles, including easy integration of Facebook ads in your app's UI. The quid pro...
View ArticleGoogle says it won't remove Saudi government app that lets men track and...
Absher is a kind of Saudi equivalent to China's Weibo, an all-in-one service that manages payments, interaction with government services, and, key to the Saudi system of sadistic, totalitarian...
View ArticleLarry Page approved $150M stock grant to Andy Rubin despite sex abuse...
Alphabet and Google co-founder Larry Page did not ask his company's board of directors for approval before personally approving a $150 million dollar stock grant to disgraced Android executive Andy...
View ArticleVulnerabilities in GPS fleet-tracking tools let attackers track and...
Itrack and Protrack are commercial devices for tracking fleets of commercial vehicles; they can be configured to allow for remote killswitching of the cars' engines, presumably as a theft-prevention...
View ArticleAfter retaliation against Googler Uprising organizers, a company-wide memo...
Last year, Google was rocked by a succession of mass uprisings by its staff, who erupted in fury after discovering that the company was secretly pursuing a censored Chinese search tool and an AI...
View ArticleIn less than one second, a malicious web-page can uniquely fingerprint an...
In a new paper for IEEE Security, a trio of researchers (two from Cambridge, one from private industry) identify a de-anonymizing attack on Iphones that exploits minute differences in sensor...
View ArticleRun Android on your Nintendo Switch
Putting Android on things has become the new putting Linux on things. XDA Developers: The Nintendo Switch was never meant to run Android. It’s a portable game console with a 6.2-inch 720p display...
View ArticleAndroid apps are tracking your every move and there's currently no way to...
I occasionally need to use an Android device to get things done for my day job. I like the flexibility of the operating system: I can tweak to my hearts content. An Android phone often runs cheaper...
View ArticleTurning to Android to fill in missing Mac OS apps in Windows 10
Around this time last year, I picked up a Surface Go. It's been a great piece of hardware. While it might not be the most powerful Windows PC going, it's got more than enough guts to power me through a...
View ArticleSon of Ghostnet: the mobile malware that targets Tibetans abroad
Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's top research institutions documenting cyber-attacks against citizen groups, human rights activists, journalists and others; ten years ago, they made...
View ArticleGoogle will now allow you to set your data history to self-destruct
Google has long allowed you to delete all the data it's stored on you, or to turn off collection, but turning off collection altogether made its services a lot less useful (for example, it made the...
View ArticleBill Gates just accidentally proved that even "unsuccessful" antitrust...
In 1992, the Federal Trade Commission opened an antitrust investigation against Microsoft; in 2001, the company settled the claims, making a slate of pro-competitive promises that were widely derided...
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How to add the Google Play Store to your 2019 Amazon Fire 10 HD tablet
The very first thing I did with my new Amazon Fire HD 10 was to install the Google Play Store. I love Amazon's bargain tablets, they are a cheap Android device with heavy integration into Amazon. I...
View ArticleHow to get a refund on an app you don't like
If you purchased a smart phone app that doesn't meet your expectations, Popular Science has a guide for how to get your money back. The first thing to try is contacting Google or Apple and explaining...
View ArticleAdobe makes sending images Lightroom to Photoshop on iPad a thing
Photoshop kinda sucked when Adobe introduced it to the iPad last year. Months in, Photoshop for iOS is still such a flummoxing disappointment when I need to tinker with an image on my tablet. I pay for...
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Here's how Android and Windows users can now FaceTime
Apple's new iOS 15 now makes it easy to FaceTime via the Web with people who use Android or Windows devices. The Apple person can just create and share a Web link with the Android user. From Apple:...
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