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sebra/Shutterstock The internet is full of articles that detail apps you should never install on your smartphone, and we’ve contributed our fair share. We have expressed how apps such as Facebook and Waze slow down your phone, while apps like YouTube and TikTok can eat up data plans.

Everyone is buzzing about Apple’s rumored iPhone Fold: it might arrive in September with the iPhone 18! It might not arrive then because of production delays! It might not have a crease! So what. Who cares? Did you see the iPhone on the Orion spaceship? The one that Artemis II mission crew members used to

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Samsung Messages is being shut down in July Users are unhappy about the closure, and especially with the suggestion that they move to Google Messages Over on Reddit, Samsung owners have posted their favorite alternative messaging apps Samsung recently announced that it would be shutting down Samsung Messages in July 2026, and encouraged users to

Nio registered two vehicles in Germany in March, bringing the EV maker’s total for the first quarter to eight units in Europe’s largest automotive market. First quarter registrations represented a 87.5% year-over-year decline while every major Chinese competitor posted triple-digit growth in the same period. The March figure represented a 90.5% decline from the same

MobilityOne advances Super Apps deal after TETE vote Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock MobilityOne Limited said a key step in its proposed joint venture with Super Apps has been approved, after shareholders in its US partner backed the deal. The company said Technology & Telecommunication Acquisition Corporation has passed all resolutions at an extraordinary

Electric vehicle uptake in Australia is accelerating as anxiety about fuel shortages and rising petrol prices grows. A month into the ongoing war with Iran, new car sales data released today show the share of EVs has doubled compared to March last year. The sales spike is just one signal that the country’s car market

There are a lot of people out there searching for that one phone that really manages to check all the right boxes. And while you can go with something high-end like the Galaxy S26 Ultra, we don’t think that’s going to be the ideal fit for most people. So, if you’ve been looking for something

Global Electric Vehicle Relay Market to Grow at 5.3% CAGR Through 2035 Amid Surge in EV Electrification and Smart Power Systems Wilmington, DE, USA, 7th April 2026 – According to MarketGenics Global Research, the global electric vehicle relay market is valued at USD 4.7 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach approximately USD 7.8

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Health last month settled a class-action lawsuit by a handful of Android users who claimed that the state had worked with Google to automatically install a COVID-19 contact-tracing app on their phones, and the phones of more than one million others, tracking their locations and transmitting their personal information. As

When I first started tracking my daily screen time, I realized something needed to change. I was spending more than 10 hours a day on my phone, yet I could barely remember half of what I had done or seen. What I did know was that most of that time went to scrolling through TikTok

Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions, even as Apple continues to take issue with some of the ways these apps are built and behave. Here are the details. Amid app submission surge, Apple turns to AI to scale App Store

Apple has updated its developer website this week to spotlight third-party apps using Liquid Glass to “create natural, responsive experiences across Apple platforms.” This is the second version of Apple’s design gallery for Liquid Glass, following the initial gallery debut in November. Since then, more apps have adopted the new Liquid Glass design language, while

Does your Mac automatically open a bunch of apps each time you reboot? A lot of apps want to auto-launch when you start up your computer. The problem is it can make your Mac feel slower, especially if you’re not using these apps. Fortunately, Apple makes it easy to disable auto-launch apps in macOS 26

I spend a lot of time bouncing between macOS for music production, Linux for reviving older PCs, and Windows, where I get most of my work done. It’s my default environment, and over the years I’ve gotten pretty obsessive about smoothing out the rough edges. Not because Windows is unusable, but because it’s full of

Samsung Messages is shutting down in July 2026 The move has been branded “dumb” and “sad” Users are being encouraged to use Google Messages It’s time to bid farewell to Samsung Messages: Samsung has announced that it’s shutting down the app in the next few months, with users encouraged to make the switch over to