Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

A 1-1 tie at No. 2-ranked Augsburg on Friday in Minneapolis marked another eyebrow-raising result for St. Scholastica women’s hockey in its first season under head coach Sydney Brodt. The Saints stole ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Texas law that requires age verification on certain websites to go into effect. But another, lesser-known Texas law is about to go into force, too.

The free AccuWeather app has more than a dozen map features that allow you to monitor your area from precipitation to air quality. You can also use an interactive radar map that can track lightning.

News coverage of major hurricanes, flash floods, extreme wildfires and other weather disasters often follows a familiar cadence. Headlines announce catastrophic devastation. Death tolls are tallied.

In previous versions of Microsoft Outlook (the classic app), you could view the HTML code of an email by opening the email, right-clicking on it, and selecting “View source” from the context menu.

If you hung out laundry, visited a beach or fired up the barbecue this week, you will almost certainly have consulted a weather app first. And you might not have been entirely happy with the results.