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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google fined record €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) over search results abuse July 04, 2025 Googlehas been hit with a €2.42 billion (~$2.7 billion) fine by the European Commission, the regulator’s largest ever penalty. The search giant has been charged with giving its own shopping comparison tool an illegal advantage over the competition and has been provided 90 days to change its practices, or it will face further fines....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google I/O 2019: Everything announced at the developer conference June 12, 2025 What is Google I/O?It’s an annual developer conference where Google announces new hardware, software, and various updates for its existing apps and services. When and where is Google I/O?The event is on now,kicking offTuesday, May 7, and ending Thursday, May 9. It will take place at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HOM-BOT Turbo+ is the phone controlled vacuum cleaner of your domestic dreams August 10, 2025 If there’s one downside to the holiday season it’s knowing that you have to clean up all that shredded wrapping paper and the fallen pines from the tree. Fortunately next year our gadgets will be able to handle that for us too, asLGwill be showing off its HOM-BOT Turbo+ robotic vacuum cleaner at CES 2016, which you can control using your smartphone....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to implement Autofill in your Android apps August 05, 2025 Typing on the smaller screen of a smartphone or tablet is always time-consuming and frustrating, but this is amplified when applications keep asking for the same information, over and over again. How many times have you typed your email into an app’s login screen? Or entered your credit card number in a payment Activity?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. How to write to a file in Python — Txt, Docx, CSV, and more! August 01, 2025 Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build useful tools like word processors and spreadsheets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC and Valve showcase new and improved Vive Pre VR headset at CES July 12, 2025 HTCwould rather not talk about its smartphone business, but Cher Wang’s company is much more confident when it comes to its budding VR initiatives. The Vive VR headset,developed together with gaming powerhouse Valve, is still not ready for prime time, but today HTCunveiled a refreshed version of the device called Vive Pre....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. It’s time Google took streaming seriously with its new Chromecast August 22, 2025 Mixed in with Google’s upcominghardware announcements on September 30, you’ll find mention of a new Chromecast nestled alongside the anticipatedPixel 5,Pixel 4a 5G, and a new smart speaker.Reports suggestwe’re looking at an Android TV-Chromecast-hybrid device with a much-requested TV remote bundled in. With Android TV and voice assistant capabilities surely in tow, Google has major players like Roku and Fire TV in its sights....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Lenovo reveals new slim laptops, a new Chromebook, and new tablets July 16, 2025 Lenovo is holding its annual Tech World event virtual for 2021 today due to the continued Covid-19 outbreak. It used the event to announce quite a few new products that are coming shortly, yhis includes two newWindows 11-based slip laptops, a new Chromebook with a detachable display, and two new Android tablets....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. LG G4 review: a phone that attempts to do everything June 13, 2025 With a unique and attractive design, great performance, and a fantastic camera, while also being the only current flagship to feature a replaceable battery, LG is attempting to provide users with a phone that offers literally everything you may want. In today’s landscape, we are seeing more and more OEMs push away from the less premium designs of old, electing for slim, great-looking devices that are unfortunately not without their compromises....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion July 24, 2025 Microsoft and LinkedIn have announced that the software giant is planning on purchasing the business-oriented social network to the tune of $26.2 billion. An officialpress releasedocuments the planned exchange which Microsoft hopes will go through by the end of the year. LinkedIn seems excited about this turn of events as well....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 2 reservation list to close as invites ramp up June 28, 2025 Reservations for theOnePlus 2have apparently hit a rather astonishing 5 million sign-ups since the handset was launched earlier in the year. Although as I’m sure those sitting in the waiting list will know, the small smartphone company isn’t hitting those sort of production numbers, but the company wants to start making a dent in these reservations....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. OnePlus 8T and 8T Pro: 7 things we want to see (Updated) June 19, 2025 Update, July 04, 2025 (03:30 PM ET):At this point, we are only a little over a week away from the official launch of the OnePlus 8T. We now are confident that some of the features below won’t make it for this release cycle, while some others will....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Ported Google Camera with HDR+ gets RAW support and squashes major bugs June 23, 2025 The modified version of theGoogle Cameraapp caused a few ripples in the Android community because it allowed those who don’t ownPixelorNexusdevices to try outGoogle‘s excellent HDR+ chops, among other features. Thankfully for fans, independent developer B-S-G did not stop his work on the modified app and released a new version that adds RAW support, squashes some major bugs, and throws in a few features along the way....