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Twitter recently announced that users can disable SMS-based two-factor authentication, a requirement the company has held onto despite the increased security risk of receiving 2FA codes via SMS. Two-factor authentication, widely considered a best practice when it comes to keeping your online accounts secure, adds an extra layer of security to your online accounts by requiring a six-digit number …

Samsung usually doesn’t announce its next Galaxy S phones until closer to the spring, but that hasn’t stopped rumors and leaks about what will be in the next-gen Galaxy S11 or what it will look like. Thanks to a new set of renders, we may now have our first look at what the latest Galaxy will offer. Created by noted …

Russia has reportedly passed a law banning the sale of phones, computers and smart TVs without Russian software preinstalled. It’ll come into force in July 2020, according to the BBC. Legislation was apparently passed by the country’s lower house of parliament on Thursday, but the list of impacted devices and software has yet to be determined.  It won’t mean devices …

If you use Gmail on your phone, you’ll soon be able to complete tasks like RSVPing for events or responding to a Google Docs comment without leaving your inbox, Google said Thursday.  The search giant calls this “dynamic email.” It came to Gmail on the web in July. Now, it’s arriving in the iOS and Android versions of Gmail too.  “You can …

Google is launching Duplex on the Web, a booking service that’s basically autofill on steroids. The tool is designed to let people more easily buy movie tickets online, the company said Thursday. The service is available on Android phones. To use it, you’d ask the Assistant — Google’s digital helper software akin to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri — to look …

Google has announced an Android bug bounty reward of $1.5 million if you manage to hack its Titan M chip on Pixel devices and also find exploits in the developer preview versions of Android. Until now, the highest payout on Google’s Bug Bounty Program was just over $200,000, Google said when announcing the new reward on Thursday. Google’s total payouts …

Each year phones get a little faster, longer lasting and, with luck, more stylishly designed. One feature increasingly coming to phones that makes a bigger, more noticeable difference is higher refresh rates. The standard rate is 60Hz, which means your phone screen refreshes 60 times a second. In 2017 the Razer Phone wowed CNET with its 120Hz display, which led …

This week is the official launch of Google Stadia, and if you’ve been salivating for the streaming games platform since May, you will be able to start playing on Nov. 19… maybe. Google‘s subscription gaming service will work a bit like Netflix or Disney Plus, where you stream games to your mobile device, computer or TV, with all the heavy …

The iPhone 11 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and Google Pixel 4 pack some of the best phone cameras you can buy, capturing shots that give many dSLRs a run for their money. Even better, since your phone is always with you, you’re ready to shoot whenever an opportunity appears. Even more affordable phones like the Huawei P30 Pro, OnePlus …

If you’re an Android user and have grown tired of boring text messaging, help is on the way. Google recently announced a slow rollout of RCS Messaging for users in the US, joining users in the UK, France and Mexico who gained access earlier this year. Google expects to make the feature available to all users in the US by the end of …