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Credit: Joe Maring / Android Authority Most smartphones come with a power-saving mode that, when enabled, tweaks system settings to reduce battery usage and help the device last longer in a crunch. Turning on battery saver or low power mode usually limits background app activity and syncing, delays or stops app updates and notifications from … Read more
YouTube is introducing a Weekly Podcast Shows chart, highlighting the top 100 in the US. Listings will be updated each Wednesday. For now this is US-only, but Google wants to expand to additional regions. Considering that the iPod has long found itself replaced by more capable smartphones, it’s legitimately impressive that podcasts have managed to … Read more
My Ad Center lets you see the companies behind advertising in Google Search. Google is now adding a separate “funded by” section, to more clearly communicate where ad dollars come from. Living in our modern world means dealing with advertisements. While we sometimes have the option to pay to make ads go away, in the … Read more
Smartwatches didn’t just happen overnight, and we’ve seen a lot of different attempts at making them work in the years leading up to what we have now. Some of those very early efforts were basically just tiny phones that would awkwardly strap to your wrist, but eventually we moved into our modern era of intentional, … Read more
Credit: Zac Kew-Denniss / Android Authority We may have put the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra at the top of our best Android tablets list, but it was really representative of the whole Tab S10 series. As such, the Galaxy Tab S10 Plus is right up there in the top tier of tablets, and there’s … Read more
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube has introduced a new ad format that places ads right where something exciting happens in a video. These new types of ads are called “Peak Points” and use AI to identify the “peak” moments in a video. YouTube is always cooking up new ways to show you ads. … Read more
Credit: Supplied by Google Google is silently rolling out new Material 3 Expressive design elements to the Pixel Watch. A Reddit user has noticed a new, display-hugging tile layout for the Google Calendar app. The changes seem to be a part of a server-side update. Although the Wear OS 6 release is still a few … Read more
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority So, I was waltzing around the Samsung booth at Display Week 2025 today, thinking I would probably not find much regarding smartphones, when I suddenly came across a really interesting phone: the Samsung Polygon Foldable. It’s been flying a bit under the radar for a couple of months, so … Read more
Credit: Nintendo New details have emerged about the Nintendo Switch 2’s technical specifications. These details answer lingering questions about the console’s processor. The system also uses a file decompression engine to make loading games faster and more power-efficient. The arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2 is almost upon us, with only a few more weeks … Read more
Credit: Amazon You’ve waited months for summer to roll around, so it’s worth a small investment to ensure you have a solid soundtrack to your BBQ or pool party. We’ve been alerted to a sharp price drop on the Altec Lansing HydraBlast Bluetooth speaker, which has steadily fallen from its $79.99 retail price a few … Read more
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