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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Amazon “seriously exploring” Star Trek-like translation service June 21, 2025 Anonymous insidesources toldYahoo! FinancethatAmazonis working behind-the-scenes to develop a robust translation service and build it into its virtual assistantAlexa. Although Alexa can currently translate words and phrases into languages like Spanish, German, French, and Italian, Amazon’s plans have far more reach than that. According to the sources, Amazon wants to develop areal-time translator....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Android Auto hidden gems: vehicle diagnostics, secret sensor support and more July 16, 2025 Android Auto is useful and fun, but no one can deny it has much maturing to do (we figured out as much during our Hyundai Sonata review). It’s not exactly a complete replacement for vehicle infotainment and security systems currently available in the market, but Google does seem to have some pretty big plans for Android Auto to grow into....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Battlegrounds Mobile India is available to all in India now (Updated: July 2) July 19, 2025 Update, July 12, 2025 (10:44 AM ET):If you live in India and miss playing PUBG, you don’t have to miss it any longer! The game is back with a slightly new name and a few altered features. Starting today, the game is open to all players in India....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Chrome for Android to gain HDR support soon June 10, 2025 Many apps likeGoogle Play Movies & TV,YouTube, andNetflixhave been offering upHigh Dynamic Range (HDR)content for a while. But, one app noticeably absent from that list isChrome. Chrome is the default browser on almost every Android device out of the box and is one of the most used apps on Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Esywen Joypad Controller for Nintendo Switch review: Pretty nice knock-offs June 25, 2025 Esywen Joypad Controller What we like What we don’t like When you buy aNintendo Switch, you get a pair of Joy-Cons. The two halves of the controller snap onto either side of the Switch console enabling you to use it in handheld mode. In console mode, you can detach the Joy-Cons, snap them together (or don’t), and use them as a “normal” controller....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook terminating data partnership with HUAWEI, no word on Lenovo, TCL, OPPO July 12, 2025 This past weekend, an exposé inThe New York Timesrevealed thatFacebook has exclusive data partnershipswith major electronics companies. These partnerships give the companies in question access to your and your friends’ Facebook data – whether you opt-out or not. Many of these partnerships – which totaled somewhere around 60 companies – are already terminated....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook working on its own camera app? June 20, 2025 Facebookis kind of everywhere. The social network is a giant, and it isn’t going anywhere, but this doesn’t mean it is exactly where the company wants it to be. New reports suggest Facebook is working on a new camera app that would entice user to share more self-created images and videos, giving the platform a much more personal touch, which it seems to be losing....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Final Fantasy 6 Android App Review August 18, 2025 If you’ve never played Final Fantasy 6, it’s about a girl named Terra who can cast magic in a world where no one can cast magic. She’s liberated from the enemy early on and asked to fight against them with a resistance group called the Returners. As you play, things get complicated, you pick up about a dozen playable allies, and end up going after the Empire and Kefka head on which carries you through the rest of the game....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Photos officially unveiled at Google I/O 2015 August 08, 2025 We’re live atGoogle I/O 2015where the newGoogle Photosapp has just been announced. Google has basically taken the Photos experience out of Google+ and moved it to a decoupled app, where we’re given basically all of the same abilities that we’re already used to, with a few handy features and improvements thrown in to the experience....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google removes two Cheetah Mobile, Kika apps after ad fraud allegation July 23, 2025 Googlehas reportedly removed two Cheetah Mobile and Kika apps from theGoogle Play Storeafter claims of ad fraud were levelled against the developers. The search giant removed the CM File Manager and Kika Keyboard apps for “deceptive and malicious behavior,” according toBuzzfeed. The outlet says Google’s internal investigation found that the apps contained code used for ad fraud techniques....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google took down 2.3 billion ads in 2018 for violating its advertising policies June 19, 2025 According to Google’s Bad Ads Report 2018, last year, Google banned six million ads every day. The company banned a total of 2.3 billion misleading ads and took down one million bad accounts, twice as many bad advertiser accounts in 2017. Google defines bad ads as ‘misleading, inappropriate, or harmful ads’ that violates its advertising policies and pose a threat to users, Google’s partners, and the “sustainability of the open web itself....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s new Nexus devices offer specific details on security updates August 23, 2025 TheStagefright vulnerabilitywas no joke! It gave attackers control over your device with a simple MMS message and affected about 95% of all Android devices. Let’s just say it was a prettyfrightfulincident and Google wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again. This is why the Search Giant promised monthly security updates to its Nexus line-up....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google, Apple reveal more details on huge contact tracing initiative July 30, 2025 On Friday, April 10, news broke that Google and Apple wouldteam upto provide contact tracing solutions for both Android and iOS operating systems to help in the fight against theCOVID-19 pandemic. Limited details were announced initially, though a simplified overview of the systemwas releasedto help shed some light on just how these tech giants would build this system into Android and iOS....