Google has a post up on its security blog that is half advertisement and half PSA-style announcement for Android users: go into your settings and turn off the "Allow 2G" toggle. This option, added in Android 12 back in 2021, does exactly what it sounds like: it turns off support for 2G cellular networking. Why would you want to do that? Because attackers are using the insecure 2G protocol to spoof phone numbers and send SMS spam.

Google Sounds Urgent Warning To Kill This Setting On Your Android Phone

The Pixel 9 Pro XL (128GB) costs $1,099, while the Galaxy S24 Ultra (256GB) is $1,299. The Pixel 9 Pro XL features a fresh design with multiple finish options. It has an 6.8-inch screen and is slightly lighter and taller than the S24 Ultra. The Galaxy S24 Ultra has an...

Pixel 9 Pro XL vs. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: Which Is the Best Android Flagship?

Google Pixel 9 users can transfer their data from an older Android smartphone anytime after the initial setup. The Android OS developer has eliminated the obligation to decide during the first boot of the brand-new smartphone. Google allows data transfer to Pixel 9 any time after first setup. Switching smartphones...

Google Pixel 9 users can transfer anytime after the initial setup

Google’s latest AI breakthrough is Gemini Live, and it is rolling out today on Pixel and other Android phones. Announced at Made by Google 2024 earlier this week, this feature lets you have free-flowing conversations with Gemini, making it even easier to explore complex topics, brainstorm ideas, or just shoot the breeze.

Gemini Live is already starting to arrive for Pixel and Samsung phones

The Oukitel C50 is available for purchase now, with specs that make it well worth its $200 price tag. With more than enough horsepower, this $200 Android phone performs like a device twice its price. The lack of an App Drawer (by default) was off-putting, but that can be overcome...

One of the best budget Android phones I've tested is not made by Samsung or OnePlus

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Another round of Galaxy S25 Ultra leaks suggested the device's aspect ratio and other elements could sport changes.

Next year's Samsung Galaxy phones are tipped to get big changes, starting with the S25 Ultra

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

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In April, the National Library of France removed four 19th century books, all published in Great Britain, from its shelves because the covers were likely laced with arsenic. The books have been placed in quarantine for further analysis to determine exactly how much arsenic is present. It's part of an ongoing global effort to test cloth-bound books from the 19th and early 20th centuries because of the common practice of using toxic dyes during that period.

That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes

Here’s a rumor that might cause some people’s heads to spin. A new report says Samsung might not be releasing a new Galaxy S Ultra smartphone next year. Instead, its new top-of-the-line Galaxy S25 phone could have a new, yet familiar name. According to leaker Yogesh Brar, Samsung...

Samsung may not release a Galaxy S25 Ultra in 2025

For the first time ever, Amazon is offering a brand new 9th gen (2021) Apple iPad 10.2" Wi-Fi 64GB tablet for only $199. That's 40% off the $329 list price and the lowest price we've seen. This is the most affordable iPad model you can get brand new with warranty. Right now you would have to pay an extra $120 to upgrade to the 10th gen Apple iPad; it's a better model but not necessarily worth the premium.

You Can Get a Brand New Apple iPad for Only $199

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The screen borders of the iPhone 16 Pro Max are shown to be impressively thin in a leaked engineering image.

iPhone 16 Pro Max leak just revealed advantage over Galaxy S24 Ultra and Pixel 9 Pro XL

Where is the flagship killer tablet? Samsung has one with its FE tablets. The other compelling options aren’t available in the U.S. Thankfully, the second half of 2024 has graced us with the long-awaited solution: the OnePlus Pad 2. Armed to the teeth with Qualcomm’s fastest silicon, a delightful...

The OnePlus Pad 2 is the best Android tablet I’ve used this year

Google made its AI assistant, Gemini, central to its pitch to reviewers and the public—it's what makes Pixel phones different from any other Android phone, the company says. In fact, you have to go 24 minutes into Google's keynote presentation, and cringe through a couple of live AI demo failures, before Pixel hardware details are even mentioned.

Pixel 9 phones: The Gemini AI stuff, reviewed

Disney said it is abandoning its motion to compel arbitration in a case filed by a man who alleges his wife died from anaphylaxis after a restaurant at a Disney complex failed to honor requests for allergen-free food. Disney's motion to compel arbitration controversially cited the Disney+ streaming service's subscriber...

Disney abandons Disney+ arbitration defense in restaurant allergy death case

Apple is currently testing 2024's major software updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision, which anyone can try out before the stable releases expected this September. But are your devices compatible? Will you need to upgrade a device or two to get all the latest features? Find out here.

Are Your Devices Compatible with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15? Here's the Complete List

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For almost a year now, Android's Ultra HDR implementation has made editing pictures in Google Photos needlessly annoying. Android 14 brought system-level support for Ultra HDR images, which show higher dynamic range under the right conditions — which is great. But when editing those Ultra HDR photos using Google Photos, you've had to save edited images as copies, which, for me, resulted in a lot of duplication.

The Pixel 9 finally fixes my biggest Google Photos complaint

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Google Pixel 9 Pro

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The Google Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL step things up in a serious way, offering a far improved build-quality and tons of new AI features.

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Qualcomm's AI ambitions are now trickling into more affordable territory. The newly revealed Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, a relatively modest variant of one of Qualcomm's top chipsets, will bring on-device AI to mid-range and budget smartphones later this year. As always, Qualcomm's "s" segment is dedicated to the affordable smartphone...

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Look out, Peacock. There's reportedly a new video streaming service that's avian-themed. The fast-food chain Chick-fil-A plans to launch a video streaming service, Deadline reported today, citing anonymous sources. The streaming service is expected to focus on “family-friendly” content and include original TV shows, the publication said. Chick-fil-A...

Chick-fil-A plans to launch streaming service with original shows

Google is taking steps to better integrate Gemini, its generative AI model, into Android. At today's Made by Google event, where Google unveiled the Pixel 9 series, the tech giant also took some time to announce how Android is reimagining what your phone can do with Gemini. That includes new ways to interact with Gemini on Android, like using the AI assistant to ask questions about anything that's on your phone screen.

Here's What Google Announced for Android at the Made by Google Pixel 9 Event Today

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Pixel 9 family: The “just hardware” review (no AI)

I asked Google's Gemini Live chatbot, running on a new Pixel 9 Pro, how easy it was to use the Pixel 9 without all the Gemini...

Pixel 9 family: The “just hardware” review (no AI)

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