I turned my Android phone into a 35-tool science kit with one free app - and started testing everything

Phyphox can do so much that explaining it all would take hours. The real fun starts once you begin testing the world around ...

Android Is Fighting Phone Scams With a New Feature to Prove Who’s Calling

Available for Android 12 and later, the anti-scam feature is baked into Google Dialer, which sends a silent “confirmation ...
Engadget

New Google accounts may only get 5GB free storage — unless you link a phone number

Google appears to be altering the deal on free storage for new Google accounts. Previously, everyone who signed up for a new account got 15GB of storage. Now, you may get stuck with a measly 5GB ...
Android Police

I want to trust Google's Find Hub to track my gear, but these glaring issues must be fixed first

Jade Bryan is a Feature Author at Android Police with over a decade of tech reviews and news reporting experience, stretching back to the Symbian era and the early days of Android. He covers the ...
9to5google

Google accounts no longer get 15GB of free storage, only 5GB until you link a phone number

Google has made a notable change to its account storage policy, limiting the usual 15GB of free storage only to accounts that are verified with a phone number. For years now, signing up for a Google ...
TechCrunch

Google Search as you know it is over

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — ...
NCAA

2026 NCAA outdoor track and field championships: Schedule, location, how to watch, results

Combined event athletes (heptathlon and decathlon) accepted into the championship meet were announced on Thursday, May 21. Click or tap here to view the combined event selections. The top 12 ...
New York Magazine

59 Actually Useful Tips for Using Your Phone (a Little) Less

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Amid keeping up with family group texts, friend-group texts, friend-group-going-on-vacation group texts, ...
CNET

Google's Been Quietly Using Your Hard Drive for AI. Here's What to Do About It

A 4GB file called weights.bin may have appeared on your hard drive, thanks to Chrome. Here's what it is and how to get rid of it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into ...
Wired

Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026

Google just wrapped its keynote address at its annual I/O developer event. The company showed off a swath of new agentic AI features and some demos of its upcoming Android-powered smart glasses. As it ...
TechCrunch

Google’s new Universal Cart wants to follow your entire shopping journey across the internet

At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced Universal Cart, its agentic hub for managing shopping in one place. The tech giant also announced updates to its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and teased ...