Spend a large portion of your day using Gmail? If you send and receive the majority of your Gmails on a computer, keyboard shortcuts can save you hours of time. There are dozens of Gmail keyboard shortcuts; presented here are the most useful to this Gmailer. Gmail splits its keyboard shortcuts into two groups: those …
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Apple is suspending its Siri grading process globally while it conducts a review. The move comes after a report last week in The Guardian said a team of contractors around the world listens to a random, small subset of the recordings Siri hears after people push its activation button or say “Hey Siri,” to check the voice assistant’s accuracy and response. Apple …
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Google Fit has added some new features to its app after last year’s revamp introduced Heart Points and Move Minutes. Now users can take advantage of logging sleep patterns, mapping their routes — be they for running, hiking, biking or other activities– and saving their eyesight with dark mode. Google said it’s rolling out the updates to both iOS and Android …
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You’ll soon be able to step up your offline mobile viewing on YouTube Premium from 720p HD to real HD. Google confirmed to us on Friday that it’s started to roll it out the ability to download 1080p video for offline viewing to Android and iOS users “in most Premium markets with more to come soon.” Android Police noted back in …
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A video claiming to be a hands-on of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ has been posted on YouTube by British online mobile accessories retailer Mobile Fun. The 4-minute video goes into extreme detail, showing off what it says is the upcoming handset from every angle possible. Mobile Fun said it got the dummy phones from a phone case company, …
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Google will soon let you send information to 911 operators without speaking. The feature, available in the Phone app on Pixel phones and select Android devices later this year, lets you transfer crucial information to emergency responders via an automated voice service, Google said in a blog post Thursday. By tapping a Medical, Fire or Police button during an emergency …
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Google is testing a monthly subscription service that lets you access a library of Android games and apps on its Play Store, Android Police reported Wednesday. We got the first hints about the search giant’s Play Pass service last year, but it seems even more relevant with Apple Arcade looming. The report showed screenshots of Play Pass signup page with …
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The headphone jack on phones had a good run, but like all good things, it eventually must end. That end seems to have finally arrived with Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10 line. After being one of the last holdouts against the trend of ditching the headphone jack, it appears that Samsung is going to do just that for the Note 10 …
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There aren’t many good Android tablets, and Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab S6 is aiming to be one of the best. After trying it out briefly in a demo in New York, I did admire a few things Samsung’s doing with their newest tablet — because they’re things Apple’s iPad still doesn’t do yet. All three would be helpful. But it’s …
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Google Chrome 76 is out, and it has more features to help secure users’ privacy and to help people stay safe while browsing the internet. The new version also can help get around paywalls and includes the crowd favorite, dark mode. Google released Chrome version 76 on Tuesday. Included in the update is a fix to a loophole that allowed …
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