Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google outlines some key ways to keep an AI from taking over the world July 02, 2025 Sci-fi aficionados will be quite familiar with Isaac Asimov’sThree Laws of Robotics.Asimov used this grokable list of simple restrictions governing the behavior of machine intelligences to demonstrate, through complications expounded upon in his fiction, thatthe problem of controlling an artificial mindis a complex one....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Recorder is now available on older Pixel phones July 19, 2025 TheGoogle Recorderapp debuted on thePixel 4, and has been officially exclusive to Google’s 2019 flagship for the last couple of months. That seems to have changed this week, as the feature now works on older Pixel phones too. According to9to5Google, previous versions of the Google Recorder app weren’t compatible with older Pixels, even if they were side-loaded....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Has your phone received its Oreo update yet? [Poll of the Week] June 11, 2025 Last week’s poll summary:Out ofover 14,100 total votes, 23.4% of voters said they own a Chromecast or other media streaming device, 22.2% own a smart speaker, and 13.1% own at least one smart lightbulb. Smart plugs and smart thermostats are popular too, garnering 11.3% and 9....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Here’s how the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL produce amazing shake-free videos July 01, 2025 Withall the negativitysurrounding thePixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, it’s sometimes been a little easy to forget that Google’s latest flagship smartphones have a lot going for them. In fact, in amongst the myriad reports ofdisplay issues,clicking noises, andnon-functional microphones, there’s one area where the Pixel 2 devices have received nothing but praise: the cameras....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC One M9+ to be launched on April 8 in Beijing June 25, 2025 HTC will introduce a larger version of its M9 flagship on April 8 in China. The company’s Chinese unit just published the image below onWeibo, along the #MoreThanOne hashtag, all but confirming the existence of the long rumored One M9+. The image matches thenumerous leaksfrom the past weeks showing a circular camera module and a secondary depth sensor mounted above it, just like on the One M8....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI Mate 10 Pro has “OK Google” voice issue for some users June 29, 2025 HUAWEI Mate 10 Proowners have been experiencing issues with the “OK Google” voice activation for Google Assistant. A user first reported the problem in theGoogle Product forumson April 30, though some people say they have been experiencing it for months. According to the original poster, the bug means that some of the Voice options are greyed in the settings menu, meaning the “OK Google” hotphrase used to launch Google Assistant doesn’t work....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HUAWEI P9 launched in India for Rs 39,999 (~$600) July 04, 2025 With a full metal unibody and chamfered edges, and a thickness of just 6.95 mm, the P9 is a great looking device, and while the device features impressive specifications as well, it is all about the camera here. We found the camera to be fantastic in our full review and camera feature focus, and further confirmation is in the fact that the P9 won the prestigious award of “European Consumer smartphone 2016-17” from the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA)....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. iHome’s bedside smart clock is a spiffy-looking Google Home lookalike June 19, 2025 Google Assistant-powered devices are expected to make plenty of splashes during this year’sCES, and iHome’s iGV1 is one such device that aims to take over your nightstand. Take one look at the iGV1 and we wouldn’t be surprised if you mistook it for a smaller, widerGoogle Home, thanks to its gray fabric speaker grill bottom and white plastic top....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Is LG launching a new V30 variant at MWC 2018? (Update: LG official confirms) August 20, 2025 Talking to reporters at an Innofest event in Cape Town (thanks,GearBurn),managing director for LG Electronics South Africa, CY Kim, said: “We will introduce at MWC for V30… upgraded version (sic).” Kim also apparently said that the G7 would be a “little bit late”, which is about as non-committal as it gets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo and Xiaomi drop out of the top 5 handset manufacturers August 23, 2025 Market research firm IDC has published its report for the first quarter of 2016. The results reveal that a total of 334.9 million smartphones have been shipped globally so far this year, up ever so slightly form the 334.3 million handsets shipped last year. The market is clearly showing signs of saturation, and bothAppleandSamsunghave seen year-over-year declines in sales....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo launches the S90 “Sisley”, a blatant copy of Apple’s iPhone 6 June 22, 2025 It isn’t often that we see a huge device manufacturer rip off a competitor. Sure, we’ve seen iPhone copies in the past, but this one comes from the third largest handset maker in the world,Lenovo. Today, the company released the Lenovo S90 “Sisley”, a 5-inch phone with a Super AMOLED 720p screen, a thickness of only 6....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo mobile breaks even after Motorola purchase June 22, 2025 Lenovo’sacquisition ofMotorolahas led to some major changes at the company, including a notable shift in how the two will be branded. The purchase also cost Lenovo a handsome sum at $2.91 billion, but the company’s mobile division is now on the cusp of making money again. In total, Lenovo has announced a $300 million net profit for Q3 2015 and the company’s mobile division is also almost back to making a profit after some major restructuring....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo reports strong quarter, becomes world’s third largest smartphone maker August 14, 2025 Lenovo managed to increase its smartphone shipments by 38 percent year-over-year. Without Motorola the company is the 4th larges smartphone maker in the world, but since it acquired Motorola Mobility, it is now the third largest with only Samsung and Apple ahead of it in terms of the number of devices sold....