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It took years for Android phones to catch up to the iPhone’s Live Photos. Even now, the experience often feels less refined than Apple’s implementation. A key limitation has been the all-or-nothing approach: motion photos on Android typically…

Schools, publishers, employers, and other institutions may want to know whether material was produced by artificial intelligence rather than a human. An AI detector can help, but the technology is imperfect, so institutions have to…

Why? I asked Samsung’s Won-Joon Choi, the executive in charge of both R&D and operations for Samsung’s mobile business. He says the added thickness of magnets is a bad tradeoff to make, because you’re just going to buy a case anyhow.

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Less than two weeks after the inaugural release, Android 17 Beta 2 is already rolling out to Pixel devices.

Google is operating on an accelerated timeline to already be on Beta 2.

Here’s everything new in Android 17 Beta…

Google on Thursday introduced an upgraded version of its viral Nano Banana image-generation model, highlighting improved speed as the tech giant works to draw more users to its AI offerings.

The ⁠model, called Nano Banana…

SAVE $1,099.99: Verizon customers can get the new Samsung Galaxy S26+ for free when they change their mobile plan to either the Unlimited Ultimate or Unlimited Plus plan.

Google today announced the latest version of its popular image generation model, Nano Banana 2. The new model, which is technically Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, can create more realistic images than its predecessor. The model will also now become the…