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“Fortnite Battle Royale by Epic Games, Inc is not available on Google Play.”  That’s the message you’ll get if you type “Fortnite” into the Google Play Store on your Android device today. That’s not news, of course — the fact that the insanely popular game won’t be available on Google’s own Android storefront has been a …

Going off the grid with Google is harder than you might expect. Google services on Android devices and iPhones track and store your location data even if you turn location history off in your privacy settings, according to an Associated Press investigation. You can turn off location history any time, but some Google apps still store your time-stamped location data, …

Apple promised us that we’d be able to use FaceTime to video chat with up to 32 people at the same time in iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave. While we’re eager to try it, it seems we’ll have to wait. Group FaceTime won’t release with the launch of iOS 12 and MacOS Mojave, according to Apple build release notes spotted …

For my high school graduation, my mom put together an album with photographs of me growing up in New Orleans and South Carolina. It had a leather-bound cover and black-matte pages. She attached the printed pictures to the paper with photo corners and hand-wrote captions about what was going on. With each turn of a page, I rediscovered photos and …

Heidi Klum was only half correct on Project Runway. It’s true that one day you’re in and the next day, you’re out. But a few years after that? You could be in again. That pendulum swing applies not just in fashion — though I refuse to believe that pleated pants deserve a comeback — but also in technology. Consider the …

Andrew Hoyle is joined this week by the magnificent Drew Stearne to chat about Samsung’s brand-new Galaxy Note 9. The phone hasn’t had a massive overhaul from its predecessor, but is it enough to excite the duo?  Also up for discussion on the UK’s best tech podcast is Apple’s incredible milestone of being valued at a trillion dollars. That’s 12 …

Keeping your phone safe from malicious apps is hard enough, with Google stamping out hundreds of thousands of bad apps every year. Your phone makes for an attractive target. Apps open up a lot of access to your devices, reaching into your contacts, your location, your data usage, among the many private details you share with your phone. So you …

Fortnite is a global phenomenon. It’s the biggest thing in video games, in no small part because kids are obsessed with the part-Minecraft, part-PUBG shooter they can play on an iPhone for absolutely zero money (as long as you disable in-app purchases). Now, the game is available on Android too, meaning the other 85 percent of the world’s smartphone audience …

Siri may soon get better at recognizing the name of your favorite local watering hole or burger joint. Apple’s Siri Speech Recognition Team said Thursday that it’s improved the voice assistant’s ability to identify names of local destinations and points of interest. Virtual assistants have been great with big brand names like Starbucks, but they’ve had a harder time recognizing …

Samsung is making its digital helper more helpful. The tech giant’s Bixby voice assistant is becoming more conversational and personal, part of an effort to make the service more useful, the company said at its Unpacked press event in New York on Thursday. Samsung used the event to introduce its latest phone, the Galaxy Note 9. For example, if you ask …