Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the ...

Style has always been more than clothing for me. It’s presence. A kind of quiet confidence, even a strategic career edge, that walks into the room before I do. And with 2026 already shaping up to be a ...

Apple warns iPhone users to stop using Google Chrome. “Unlike Chrome,” it says, “Safari truly helps protect your privacy.” Apple’s warning now includes secretive fingerprinting. And Chrome’s not the ...

In this fast, practical walkthrough, I demo what vibe coding is, how to use Replit AI, and how to build an app with AI from scratch - no experience needed.

It started with the New Balance 1906L, a $160 sneaker-loafer hybrid that launched last fall to great fanfare. Gray, white and ugly, it had the kind of jolie-laide silhouette I love in a shoe. Problem ...

Cloudflare has open-sourced tokio-quiche, an asynchronous QUIC and HTTP/3 Rust library that wraps its battle-tested quiche ...

If you want a more uniform home screen, you’ll want to enable Android’s Themed Icons feature. Introduced in Android 13, this feature tints app icons to match the system theme, creating a more visually ...

Spotify is not the only company quantifying our social lives. Partiful will tell you how many events you attended. Strava will tell you how active you were. Is it too much information? By Madison ...

Many popular apps collect more of your personal data than necessary to function properly. These 20 apps quietly scoop up your photos, location, contacts, and more. Here's how to protect yourself. I ...