About a month ago, Google announced that the rules around sideloading apps -- the ability to install apps from unverified developers, bypassing Google's Play Store -- onto Android devices were set to ...

CNET spoke with Google's Sameer Samat and Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian about why they're combining a phone and laptop OS and how they'll do it.

Amazon's Fire TV is getting a rebirth with Vega OS, but it sounds like the experience at launch might not be what some fans expected.

F-Droid is raising alarms over Google's recent decision to strictly limit app sideloading on Android. After 15 years on the market, the alternative app store now ...

You may have noticed a setting on Android called Private DNS. It's on by default, and you're best off leaving it that way.

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