Australian politician Pauline Hanson has been suspended from Twitter after posting a video earlier this week saying that cattle prods should be used on climate protesters. The suspension, first reported by SBS, will be lifted if she deletes the offending tweet, but Senator Hanson says it’s an example of how…
Apple's Beats Powerbeats Pro wireless earbuds are now available to pre-order in Ivory, Navy, and Moss.
LG just announced two new-midrange phones a couple of weeks ahead of IFA 2019. As usual with the company, it has shared limited details and will release more information in Berlin starting September 6. We already know both handsets are improved versions of the K40 and K50, which were unveiled a few months ago.
The new K40S and K50S build up on their predecessors and feature enhanced displays and cameras, as well as larger batteries. They retain some of their siblings' key selling points such as the Google Assistant button, fingerprint sensor on the back, AI camera features, DTS:X 3D Surround Sound, and MIL-STD-810G standard for durability.
Read MoreLG announces new mid-range K50S and K40S with large bezels, notch, and an Assistant button slug was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Last week, Google Maps added a new gesture for quickly switching between accounts. Given how simple it is to use instead of tapping a few times, we got excited about the prospect of the gesture coming to other Google apps, especially ones where account switching is more frequently needed, like Gmail and Drive. While the former hasn't gotten it yet, the latter just did.
Google Drive v2.19.332 adds the ability to swipe up or down on your avatar picture (top right) to quickly switch accounts.
Read MoreGoogle Drive gets new handy gesture for account switching [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Following tradition set by the first 4G and LTE phones, the initial wave of 5G smartphones has been very expensive. The Galaxy S10 5G and Note10+ 5G will set you back $1,300, but HMD Global (maker of all Nokia-branded Android devices) wants to make something substantially cheaper.
HMD Global's Juho Sarvikas confirmed to Digital Trends that the company is working on a Nokia 5G phone, which is expected to be roughly half the price of current 5G smartphones.
Read MoreNokia working on 'value' 5G phone set for 2020 release was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Rapper Eminem’s publisher is suing Spotify, claiming that the music streaming giant is infringing on hundreds of his copyrights as well as “challenging the constitutionality of a recently passed music licensing law,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Wednesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—the far-right climate denier who assumed office this year and immediately began gutting Brazil’s environmental agencies and regulations—recently suggested humans can slow their destruction of Earth’s biosphere by only taking a “poop every other day.” Perhaps he’s trying to score some…
He’s first and foremost the Star Trek guy, but the creative mind of Gene Roddenberry—born this week in 1921—also ventured far beyond the voyages of the Enterprise. A quartet of awesomely bizarre TV projects he made in the years between Star Trek and The Next Generation offers fascinating proof of this.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee, whose campaign was focused on encouraging badly needed actions to confront the climate crisis, ended his presidential bid Wednesday.
D23 Expo 2019 starts on Friday and, with it, fans should expect major news from all sides of the Disney kingdom. We’re talking movies, streaming, theme parks, merchandise, pretty much everything...except what’s going to happen with Spider-Man.
Is WeWork, the sprawling chain of coworking spaces expanding across the country and abroad, a tech company? WeWork is sure scrambling to find reasons to claim so, because “tech” is apparently some kind of magic word that it thinks will justify its $47 billion valuation. Its critics have instead characterized WeWork as…
Moment continues to build out the selection of accessories designed for smartphone photographers and videographers. Last year brought the launch of a special filter mount designed to adapt 62mm filters, but it only fit on top of Moment's lenses. But for those times when you want the original perspective provided by your smartphone camera, or maybe you don't want to travel with a huge filter on the front of your phone, Moment is now launching a new mount and a line of smaller 37mm filters that attach directly to their Photo Cases.
Read MoreMoment launches a new circular polarizer and neutral density filters, 20% off 3-day sale was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Apple is warning customers that some fabrics, like leather and denim, might cause permanent discoloration of their Apple Card.
British Airways has announced that it is giving iPhone XRs to all 15,000 of its cabin crew. The move is part of a "£6.5bn investment for customers" that will help the airline offer more personalized service. It follows a successful trial of iPads for senior cabin crew.
Voice assistants make our lives easier for the most part. Instead of having to get up to turn on the lights, we can simply ask them to do it for us. Similarly, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa allow you to call businesses via voice, with no need to input a phone number anywhere. There are risks associated with blindly calling unknown numbers, though. According to the Better Business Bureau, some scammers have apparently gamed Google and Amazon's phone number ranking systems.
Read MoreBeware: Using Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri to call businesses could connect you to scammers instead was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Today Intel announced its new line up of 10th generation U- and Y-series CPUs. This is exciting stuff! Wait. Didn’t Intel already announce its new line up of 10th generation U- and Y-series CPUs in May? Yes, it did. But it also announced a second 10th generation of U and Y series CPUs today, and you are totally…
For most people, MSI is synonymous with big, powerful gaming laptops. But thanks to the number of aspiring video editors, 3D pros, and other digital artists, there’s a growing demand for systems with gaming-level performance, but tweaked for other applications. To meet this demand, MSI is announcing its new Content…
As the Xiaomi launches its latest phone in Europe, the Mi 9T Pro, strong sales in overseas markets are said to be a major factor in the Chinese company's stellar second-quarter financial results. A year-on-year increase in net profit of 71.7% to has been reported, up to RMB 1.96 billion in Q2 2019.
According to a new blog post, "consensus-beating" performance in the smartphone and AIoT sectors led an efficient and resilient operation that achieved a 20.2% increase in revenue to RMB 95.71 billion for the first half of 2019 compared against the same period last year.
Read MoreXiaomi’s Q2 profits rose more than 70%, driven by stellar overseas sales was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
What began as a “day of fire” a week and a half ago has now turned daytime skies in São Paulo an inky black. The Amazon has been in deep, deep trouble ever since far-right president Jair Bolsnaro took over running Brazil. Advocates feared his regime would commit ecological “genocide” in the Amazon and with each…
😆The iPhone 11 will come with a USB-C charger. pic.twitter.com/FqYgAHJnqx
— ChargerLAB (@chargerlab) August 20, 2019
After Google published a beta of Android Studio 3.5 during I/O this year, the product is now coming to developers as a stable release. However, this version doesn't bring any new features with it. Google halted regular development for eight months and focused on making the program faster and less resource-demanding, leading to a more usable IDE.
Android Studio 3.5 is the third release to come with Project Marble, which focuses on system health, feature polish, and fixes bugs in the program.
Read MoreAndroid Studio 3.5 hits stable, bringing along better performance was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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