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.

Windows has access to a vast selection of free, paid, open-source, and proprietary applications. While you can find many of these in the bundled Microsoft Store, others are scattered across the ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

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App stores are supposed to be reliable and free of malware or fake apps, but that's far from the truth. For every legitimate application that solves a real problem, there are dozens of knockoffs ...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched a face-scanning app for local law enforcement agencies that assist the federal government with immigration-enforcement operations. The Mobile Identify ...

The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has put more federal immigration officers in public view and equipped them with new facial recognition technology. One of these tools is Mobile Fortify ...

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.

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go. By J. D. Biersdorfer I write the monthly Tech Tip column, which is devoted to ...

AI-powered app development is really taking off, and smartphone maker Nothing seems intent on capitalizing on the trend: The company on Tuesday revealed Playground, an AI tool that lets users create ...

iOS 26 includes multiple new Apple Intelligence features, but one of the biggest changes is that Apple has opened up its AI models to third-party developers. This allows third-party apps to plug ...

Starting with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, Apple provides app developers with access to a new Foundation Models framework that allows their apps to tap into the on-device large language model at ...