Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

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A fresh Android 17 beta launch means folks are tearing into the code, looking for potentially new and exciting features that Google is working on. After lifting the hood on Android 17 Beta 4, which ...

If you are old enough to remember the Google Pixel C, a controversial tablet in its own right, you know it featured a light bar at the back that showed Google’s brand colors and battery capacity. It ...

Android 17 Beta 4 makes internal reference to an in-development notification tool called Pixel Glow. Pixel Glow uses “subtle light and color” when your phone is face-down to let you know when things ...

Google is bringing Rust code to Pixel phones starting with the Pixel 10 as a security measure to prevent malicious attacks on the modem used inside Pixel 10 devices. This injection of Rust code is ...

Modern smartphone operating systems have myriad systems in place to improve security, but none of that helps when attackers target the modem. Google’s Project Zero team has shown it’s possible to get ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...

Creators can make all sorts of games using Fortnite's creative tools. The Discovery tab has thousands of islands for players to explore, and they will certainly find something that fits their ...