Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Former WhatsApp employees target Facebook with private social network June 28, 2025 Facebook’s business model means it’s heavily reliant on collecting user information for ad-tracking purposes, resulting in huge profits for the firm. But two formerWhatsAppveterans have announced their own take on the social network that promises to be the antithesis ofFacebook. HalloApp is the brainchild of Neeraj Arora and Michael Donohue, who both worked at WhatsApp before and after Facebook acquired the messaging platform,The Vergereported....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Gboard can now understand your mumbling much better than before July 17, 2025 If you’ve foundGoogle’sGboard voice dictation frustrating to use, we have good news — Google has just updatedGboardwithAI-powered offline dictation that should be a big improvement from before. As Google details in itsblog post, the voice dictation improvements were made possible with accuracy improvements through deep learning. The “prime focus” of several architectures was to reduce the amount of time it takes for your speech to be transcribed....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Glu Mobile taps Gordon Ramsay for new game June 18, 2025 The prolific mobile game design company Glu Mobile has signed an agreement with everyone’s favorite vitriolic chef Gordon Ramsay. It looks like the production company plans on creating a game using Ramsay’s likeness and voice, and he may even have a hand in creative direction. There’s no details regarding what sort of game this might look like just yet, but even in the absence of an official description, it seems reasonable to conclude that we should be expecting a game centered around the culinary arts....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Dashboard gets a makeover to improve privacy controls June 05, 2025 Launched in 2009, Google Dashboard was a new effort by the company to give users of its various services an easy way to review their data and account use. You could see just how many emails you have inGmail, how many images you have uploaded toPhotos, and much more....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google earns Pixel 4a praise but there’s a 5G twist, and more tech news today August 08, 2025 1. Pixel 4a reviews and views As it turns out, loads of reviewers had hands-on with the Pixel 4a in advance of Google announcing the phone, which came out in one model for $349/£349/€349. And, the majority reckon it’s pretty good....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google expanding Knowledge Graph to song lyrics, aims to direct users to Google Play August 03, 2025 If you’ve ever looked up song lyrics onGoogle, you’re probably familiar with a few popular lyrics sites: AZlyrics, LyricsFreak, and a number of others. You may be seeing less of those sites, however, due to a change Google has put in place with their search results....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google finally brings ARCore to China via Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S August 08, 2025 Google has finally brought ARCore to users in China. In a tweet, the company announced that owners of theXiaomi Mi Mix 2Sare now able to download ARCore apps from the Xiaomi App Store. Previously, ARCore was only available on Google Play, which is blocked in the country....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Pixel 4 XL international giveaway! August 10, 2025 NOTE:This giveaway has now ended.Check out the latest giveaway here. It’s time for the Sunday giveaway! Like every week, we’re giving away another brand new Android phone to one luckyAndroid Authorityreader. A big congratulations to the winners of last week’sOPPO Find X2 Pro international giveaway, Amanda N. from Atlanta and Youglyn N....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Search now directly displays relevant moments from YouTube content August 20, 2025 Googlerecently announceda new initiative to make searching for information within video content more streamlined. Effective immediately, users can use Google to search for key moments inYouTubevideos to more easily find the information they are looking for. That means when you search for instructional orinformativevideos, Google will provide links to moments that relate to your questions the most....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google uses software magic to replicate Apple’s 3D touch on Pixel 4 August 08, 2025 Google’s recentPixel feature dropbegan rolling out yesterday, and it introduces a few new features — anda few regressions— including a newMotion Sensegesture, improveddark modefunctionality, and the ability to quickly launchGoogle Pay. But one new feature Google didn’t explicitly advertise includes advancements to long-press functionality, effectively adding Apple’s 3D Touch feature toPixel 4devices....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Hangouts Meet’s chat functionality lets you message work peers while video conferencing June 30, 2025 If nothing else, at least Google has plenty of ways to communicate with others – Allo, Duo, and Hangouts on the consumer side, whileHangouts Meet and Chatsit on the enterprise section of the spectrum. As far as the business side is concerned, Meet is focused on video conferencing, while Chat serves as more of a chatting tool....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 8 Pro and 6X to get Android Oreo before the end of 2017 June 28, 2025 HONOR held a fan meetup in India recently, where it chatted with its users regarding the improvements they would like to see on the company’s upcoming smartphones. More importantly, HONOR also used the opportunity to announce that boththe 6Xand8 Prosmartphones will be upgraded to the latest version of Android....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 9 Lite with 18:9 display squeaks past TENAA July 17, 2025 With HUAWEI sub-brand HONOR having a busy December so far, thanks to theV10and7Xentering more international markets, the month looks to only get busier as the HONOR 9 Lite made its way throughTENAAin China. What’s interesting is that theHONOR 8 Lite, the supposed predecessor, went official back in February of this year....