The Latest Mobile News: Android, iOS, Apple, Samsung
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Precise Location Is Giving Your Coordinates Away to Apps
It’s no secret our apps use our locations: In fact, many need to in order to work properly. You wouldn’t get very far on your road trip if Google Maps couldn’t see your location. But smartphone makers don’t make it clear how location-sharing works — particularly that you can choose between sharing your general location,…
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Zoom in on Webb Telescope’s Biggest Image Yet
This new view of the cosmos is even larger than Webb’s previous deep field image.
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Google is Finally Fixing Google TV’s Lag
If your Chromecast with Google TV has been feeling sluggish on startup lately (mine has), there’s good news on the horizon. Google has made a flurry of “under the hood” changes to Google TV to help it feel faster and more responsive. The changes are relatively minor, like dialling down the memory requirement for certain…
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Don’t Use In-App Browsers for Anything Important
Both Apple and Google are doing great work to prevent multi-site tracking. Google Chrome is slowly phasing out cookies, and Apple goes the furthest by asking users to block multi-app/multi-site tracking using their app transparency popups.