More than a Billion of Android devices are at risk of a severe vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon chip that could be exploited by any malicious application to gain root access on the device.

SEOUL—Samsung 005930-1.77%decrease; red down pointing triangle Electronics said the artificial-intelligence features on its latest flagship Galaxy smartphones unveiled Wednesday were designed to work ...

Many people think Android's Developer Options are meant only for developers, but that's not true. They actually unlock powerful settings that can boost performance, add extra controls, limit ...

Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. The ad ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

This Android Malware Connects to Google Gemini for Tips on Hacking Targets 'PromptSpy' appears to be the first Android malware that uses generative AI in its execution flow, according to antivirus ...

Unless you're using an ad blocker on your Android device, you're bound to run into at least one ad while scrolling on your mobile browser or playing games. They're incredibly annoying, yes, but they ...

In brief: Remember when Cyberpunk 2077 first launched in 2020 and how much it struggled on the last-gen consoles? Today, the game that is still used to benchmark ...