Restarting an Android device is easy: you press the power button in combination with either the volume up or down button, and tap Restart in the power menu. But what if one of those buttons isn't ...

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Can a non-developer use vibe coding to build and deploy a full-stack app? And can that app actually do anything useful? I used to be a developer, many decades ago, but I’m not one any longer. The ...

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Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In ...

If you're a long-time Android Auto user, you certainly remember the good old days when the app displayed a weather widget. The next refresh killed off the widget, but Google still found a way to ...

Google’s Android Auto platform is constantly evolving, adding new features and changing others. For some users, a handy new option seems to have been made available with the option to press a readily ...

Summary: Apple hasn’t given up on its buttonless iPhone dreams yet. A recent post on Weibo claims that Apple is still working on an iPhone with haptic buttons, but we still don’t know when it will ...

Incident reporting has always been Waze's main selling point. Using crowdsourcing and the power of a large community, Waze can understand what happens on roads worldwide by giving its userbase the ...

Gboard, the default keyboard on many Android phones, is finally getting a proper undo button. Up until now, you had to use a Japanese keyboard to access the undo button, but Google has finally ...

Google is preparing a few new features for Android’s desktop windowing mode, including buttons to minimize apps or open them in a new window. Desktop windowing was first introduced in Android 15 QPR1 ...

Google is testing a new AI button on the lock screen that sits below the fingerprint reader. It’s not clear what the AI button is for since it’s currently not functional, though. It’s possible it’ll ...