Three Democratic senators called on Apple and Google to suspend Elon Musk's Grok and X apps from their stores. X and Grok, both owned by xAI, have recently enabled users to easily create and share ...

If you're an Android user, you likely have Gmail on your phone. It's one of those essential apps that many rely on every day for work and personal use. Other than Gmail, Android users have other ...

The Google app is replacing the Pixel Launcher search. Tapping the Pixel Launcher search bar opens the Google app. This appears to be an intentional change rather than a bug. This change means you now ...

In the past few days, tapping the Pixel Launcher search bar opens a different screen powered by the Google app. This is not a bug and an intentional change. Previously, the bar at bottom of your ...

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Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

Google has issued new app quality guidelines to prevent apps from excessively draining your phone’s battery life. Starting March 1, 2026, if an app is found to be holding wake locks excessively, it ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Video game maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement” with Google that could end its 5-year-old legal crusade targeting Google’s Play Store for Android apps.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) Nov 4 - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games, agreeing to Android and app ...

San Francisco — Video game maker Epic Games has reached a “comprehensive settlement" with Google that could end its 5-year-old legal crusade targeting Google's Play Store for Android apps. Epic and ...