A tech enthusiast discovered his smart vacuum was secretly mapping his home and sending data to the manufacturer. When he ...

I eventually came across SaverTuner, which felt noticeably different. It’s open-source, and instead of working against Android’s power system, it works with it. The app exposes deeper battery ...

In a post on his blog Small World, the computer programmer and electronics enthusiast Harishankar Narayanan detailed a startling find he made about his $300 smart vacuum: it was transmitting intimate ...

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Google is reportedly introducing a new “excessive partial wake locks” metric to flag Android apps that drain battery life ...

Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a powerful and versatile tool that allows you to do many things like find logs, install and ...

A software engineer discovered a backdoor in his robot vacuum cleaner, allowing remote control and data transmission to China ...

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On SwiftKey, the shortcut to the Clipboard manager is available in the toolbar, which appears at the top of the keyboard when ...

Google tried to kill the app that let Pixel users enable VoLTE and VoWiFi on any carrier, but the developer found a ...

Besides the November 2025 Feature Drop, Android 16 QPR2 Beta 3.3 is rolling out today to Pixel devices.