JACKSON, Tenn. — Is that holiday app safe? Better check it twice. Apple and Google Play offer holiday-themed apps with games for kids to play. Before permitting your child to download any app, it is essential to understand the data it may collect and establish appropriate permission settings. Check the Better Business Bureau for tips on

The team at Retro, a photo-sharing app for close friends and family, is experimenting with how generative AI can be put to more creative uses. To try out the latest, cutting-edge AI technologies, the team built a new app called Splat, which lets you turn any photo into a coloring book page for kids. As

Apple is still very much behind the curve when it comes to delivering fully formed AI tools à la Google’s Magic Eraser and Samsung’s Live Translate, but the iPhone is not totally bereft of machine learning (ML) magic. The best AI features are the invisible time-savers; tools that work in the background to help us

At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Liquid cooling system Top-tier performance Great battery life Cons Aesthetics won’t be for everyone Cameras are better but still not the best Our Verdict Redmagic does it again. If you’re a mobile gamer who cares about performance and value for money, there’s nothing better than the Redmagic 11 Pro.

Samsung’s ‘Fan Edition’ of its Galaxy S25 range is more premium than you would expect. One of its four camera lenses is 50MP, the display is big and beautiful, and it has the kind of long battery life my old Nokia 3210 would be proud of. However, there are some specifications that you will only

Newsletter Sed ut perspiciatis unde. Subscribe We recently connected with Lily Zhou and have shared our conversation below. Hi Lily, thanks for joining us today. Coming up with the idea is so exciting, but then comes the hard part – executing. Too often the media ignores the execution part and goes from idea to success,

Tesla is facing its first annual sales decline in China, the world’s largest electric vehicle market. November retail sales dropped compared to the same month last year. The company needs a nearly impossible December performance to avoid finishing 2025 in the red, per Electrek.  What’s happening? Tesla delivered 73,145 vehicles to Chinese customers in November.

(KMDL-FM) In the world of applications for your smartphone, there has to be a law of diminishing returns. What I mean is this: if you have too many apps on your phone, you’ll spend too much time searching your phone for that app for it to be an efficient tool for you. Which apps should

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 110, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy holidays, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about mall Santas and malleable software and phone bans, wondering how I

The Galaxy S26 series could be announced in February We might then be able to buy the handsets in March There have been repeated rumors of a delayed launch There’s another twist in the long-running saga of ‘when will Samsung actually launch the Galaxy S26 series?’ – and it now appears that the phones won’t

Apple’s crease-free iPhone Fold is still being worked on A well-known tipster says ‘technical challenges’ remain We should see the device launching sometime during 2026 All the signs are pointing towards the first foldable iPhone showing up sometime next year, but a fresh rumor suggests Apple still has some technical difficulties to overcome in its

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’m very much a creature of habit, which means that I’ve used the same apps for years, even as more alternatives entered the market. However, this year, I decided to switch things up a bit. While not every shift I’ve made has stuck, here are some of the changes that

Elena Rui/Getty Images Decades ago, people went from tiny flip phones with numeric keypads to large-screened devices that function like miniature computers in their pockets. These devices are aptly named smartphones, and they have become an obsession, especially among new generations. With a device in hand from

Linux gives you plenty of ways to install software: native distro packages, Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, source builds, even curl-piped installers. The catch is that each one solves a different problem, yet none of them fully eliminates the “works here, breaks there” reality across all distros. Package Forge (PkgForge) is a new project with a narrower