Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. DeepMind’s new app will help alert UK doctors if a patient has a kidney injury July 14, 2025 DeepMind, the AI firm owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced a new five-year partnership with the UK’s Royal Free London NHS (National Health Service) Foundation Trust. Part of the agreement will include the launch of a smartphone app that’s designed to alert doctors if a patient has a kidney injury....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. DIYer mods his original Nexus 5 to bring it to 64GB of internal storage June 02, 2025 While the Nexus phone series has a lot of enthusiast, there are few models that have achieved the same level of attention as the original Nexus 5. Thanks it large part to its highly affordable nature, it opened up the flagship Android experience to a lot of new users....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Does a Galaxy S8 stylus accessory make any sense? June 18, 2025 The rumors about theSamsung Galaxy S8continue to pile up on the Internet like a bad car wreck. The latest such unconfirmed report claims that the company plans to offer its S Pen stylus as an optional accessory for the phone. Previously, the S Pen has been reserved exclusively for the Note family, including the recent, and later recalled,Galaxy Note 7....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook wants to read your mind, sort of June 29, 2025 This is another one of those “is this awesome or is this terrifying” stories. DuringFacebook’s F8 developer conference keynote yesterday, the company revealed plans for a “brain-computer interface” which will be able to, at some level, read your thoughts. The technology is being developed at Facebook’s Building 8 division, dedicated to highly advanced tech projects, beyond the likes of the augmented reality products the company is also working on....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S8 vs S8 Plus: which one is right for you? August 13, 2025 Whenever two near-identical versions of the same phone are announced, you have to ask yourself: which one should I buy? Sometimes the differences are so noticeable the choice is pretty easy, as it was last year with the flat vs curved screenGalaxy S7andS7 Edge. But this year things have changed, and the differences between theGalaxy S8 and S8 Plusare much smaller than you might think....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google hardware is opening up shop in NYC July 10, 2025 Curiouser and curiouser. As many have previously observed (including myself), Google’s major foray into the hardware business could be a big game changer for the mobile market at large. It’s clear that Google wants to maintain the control they have over the all-powerful search bar, but with that digital rectangle slowly transitioning to the physical rectangles we all carry around in our pockets, Google is keen to ensure that they’re staying at the knife’s edge....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Home and Google Home Mini launched in India August 19, 2025 In a press event in New Delhi, Google announced the launch ofGoogle Homeand Google Home Mini in India. The niche smart home market in India generated quite an interest last year with the launch ofAmazon Echodevices powered by Alexa. Originally announced at Google I/O 2016, Google Home was launched in the US in October 2016 (yeah, it’s been a while!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google might soon let you receive and pay bills from inside Gmail July 17, 2025 Google is reportedly working on a new feature that will let you pay bills from inside bothGmailandInbox. Codenamed “Pony Express”, the service will let users receive and pay bills without the need to send in a paper bill or navigate to another website. According to leaked documents discovered byRe/code, the service is scheduled to roll out Q4 2015....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Photos gets cool new features just in time for it to not be free July 07, 2025 Google Photosis set tocease unlimited uploadsin just a few weeks, but the company has now announced a load of new features at itsI/O eventif you’re planning to stay anyway. For starters, the company has announced a so-called Little Patterns feature for Memories....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google will now let you stream apps directly from Google Search June 27, 2025 Google has been trying to keep Google Search, one of its biggest money-makers, relevant ever since the adoption of applications became widespread. Now that everyone is spending most of their time inside apps on their mobile devices, there are a diminishing amount of reasons for users to use Google Search as opposed to simply opening up an app....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s Change the Game Design Challenge hopes to diversify the gaming industry June 08, 2025 Launched in December, Google’sChange the Gameinitiative seeks to make gaming more inclusive. Part of that onus is on developers to better represent women in their games, which is where the Change the Game Design Challenge comes in. In conjunction with Girls Make Games and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Foundation, the Design Challenge asks entrants to come up with game design ideas and what they want to see in the future....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HONOR 9X Pro global version launched: That trade ban is starting to sting July 04, 2025 HUAWEI launched theMate 30 Proin several countries recently, using its own mobile services in lieu ofGoogle Play Servicesdue to a trade ban. Now, it’s HONOR’s turn to launch a phone without Google services as it launches theHONOR 9X Proglobally, following a Chinese launch way back in July....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. HTC Desire 626 quick look and hands on June 05, 2025 HTC just introduced a slew of affordable smartphonesto the market under the Desire series of smartphones. What these devices bring is some of what we love about HTCdevices at an incredibly affordable price point, in the company’s attempt to gain some traction in a segment of the market that is becoming increasingly competitive....