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Truecaller will now show the caller’s job title and employer, pulled from LinkedIn
Link a LinkedIn profile and an unknown number can arrive with a name, photo, employer, designation and a verification tick. It is opt-in…
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Googlebook is real: five Android laptops from $899, Gemini built in, ten years of updates. What it is, and whether Bangladesh will see one
Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo ship the first Googlebooks on 4 October: OLED screens, Intel or Qualcomm chips with 45-TOPS NPUs, your…
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Feel sick reading your phone in a car? Android's Motion Assist is now on non-Pixel phones. Here is how to turn it on
Google's feature puts small moving dots at the edge of the screen that follow the car's movement, so your eyes and inner ear stop arguing…
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Google fined €403m over location tracking: the three Android settings the case was about, and how to check yours
Ireland's data watchdog says Google collected and kept users' location data unlawfully for almost two years through Web & App Activity…
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WhatsApp is finally adopting chat bubbles — and the reason it is a system feature rather than an app trick is a security story
Floating chat heads used to need a permission that let any app draw over any other. That was abused badly enough to be redesigned, which is…
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Gmail’s end-to-end encryption is real, and almost nobody reading this can use it
Client-side encryption on mobile needs Workspace Enterprise Plus with the Assured Controls add-on. It encrypts the body, not the subject…
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WhatsApp calls are getting noise cancellation — how it decides what to delete, and the calls where you should switch it off
The model keeps speech and discards everything else. That is the feature and the failure: it also discards other people talking, and…
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Your Android phone can warn you before an earthquake arrives — how to switch it on, and the arithmetic that decides whether it reaches you in time
Every Android phone is an accelerometer. Google turned millions of them into a seismic network. The warning is real, and there is a zone…
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YouTube’s Android app has a new look — and the comments change is the one that matters, twelve years after the last attempt
Translucent player controls are what you notice. Threaded replies are what changes how the app is used — and the transparent controls carry…
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Google has put a year on Android for PC: laptops in 2026, Qualcomm silicon instead of Intel, and ChromeOS folded in
Sameer Samat says laptops arrive next year. Rick Osterloh says Gemini and the whole Android app catalogue come with them. Three hard…
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Google Maps got a better way to search your location history, at the same time as it stopped holding that history
A “Your recent places” page makes Maps history usable. The larger change underneath it is that Timeline moved from Google’s servers to your…
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Circle to Search gets a song history and one-tap translate — plus the thing nobody tells you about what the gesture actually sends
Two overdue fixes to the Android feature most people forget they have. Worth knowing first: triggering it captures what is on your screen…