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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 …

Almost a fifth of the world’s population lives in China. But because of the country’s so-called Great Firewall of censorship, its 772 million internet users can’t use the world’s most popular apps — they’re restricted to locally developed versions instead. Apps by FAANG companies — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — either are blocked or feature minimal services in the …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Looks like Samsung’s idea of “reasonable” Galaxy Note 9 pricing actually means higher pricing. The company’s new phablet — unveiled Thursday during an Unpacked event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York — sports various tweaks from last year’s Note 8, like a bigger battery, more internal storage and expanded S Pen stylus capabilities. But one of the most …