Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

What’s happened? Google has introduced a new dedicated Images tab in the Google App, located at the bottom navigation bar. Why is this important? Google envisions people using its Images tool for ...

Pinterest has curated hundreds of holiday gift guides spanning 17 categories for its “Holiday Edit,” using input from celebrities, experts and its internal data. Categories include fashion, home, ...

Android backups currently support saving app data, but without per-app options. Google now appears to be working on individual toggles, letting you back up or exclude specific apps. The list sorts ...

Too Good To Go partners with restaurants and grocery stores for surplus goods. As the government shutdown drags on, SNAP benefits could lapse for 42 million Americans who rely on the federally funded ...

A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.

Newly discovered npm package 'fezbox' employs QR codes to retrieve cookie-stealing malware from the threat actor's server. The package, masquerading as a utility library, leverages this innovative ...

In 2026, Disney expects to shutter Hulu as a standalone app and service — and fully merge Hulu into Disney+. Why did the Mouse House decide to essentially sunset the Hulu platform, which some users ...

The Upside App, founded nine years ago, offers cashback rewards for gas, groceries and dining. Pittsburgh's Action News 4 anchor Shannon Perrine put the app to the test. At BP in Swissvale the app ...

The tech company lost a massive privacy case involving the Flo app that has raised huge questions about how health apps are secretly being used. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in ...

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