China to impose more restrictions on companies like Qualcomm

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. China to impose more restrictions on companies like Qualcomm August 16, 2025 AsEETAsia reports, China’s antitrust regulators are about to impose additional restrictions on foreign companies operating inside the country within the semiconductor industry. This means that companies such as Qualcomm and other American companies will be dealing with China’s antitrust regulators on an even greater scale. China’s semiconductor market is currently the world’s largest....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 332 words · Alexander Hoover

CuBoxTV review

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. CuBoxTV review July 20, 2025 SolidRun CuBoxTV What we like What we don’t like Our scores Back in February Ireviewed the CuBox-i, a tiny PC and media center from SolidRun. The little 2-inch box offered a lot of flexibility with support for Android and Linux. However where it really excelled was in running Kodi. Now, SolidRun has updated the CuBox with a new CPU and extra memory options, including a 4GB variant!...

May 31, 2025 · 7 min · 1422 words · Sabrina Beltran

Cyanogen Inc. co-founder Steve Kondik speaks out about company failings

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Cyanogen Inc. co-founder Steve Kondik speaks out about company failings July 03, 2025 Cyanogen Incco-founder Steve Kondik has posted a statement regarding news this week that the company isclosing its Seattle officeand laying off staff. In the statement, published on the private CyanogenMod developer Google+ community, Kondik offers his thoughts on what happened at Cyanogen and what the future holds....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Jaime Estes

Details here for new Snapdragon Wear 5100 chipsets for next Wear OS watches

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Details here for new Snapdragon Wear 5100 chipsets for next Wear OS watches July 23, 2025 Smartwatchesbased on Google’s Wear OS platform all suffer from one major drawback: poor battery life. Despite best efforts from various companies, Wear OS watches just can’t compete when it comes to battery life if you compare them to the Apple Watch and other wearables based on different systems....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 528 words · Daniel Kirby

Disney vs Apple streaming wars, plus more tech news you need to know today

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Disney vs Apple streaming wars, plus more tech news you need to know today Aug 24, 2025 1.Disney Plus v Apple TV Plus: No contest, but what’s Amazon playing at? Disney announced more yesterday about its global Disney Plus launch, along with compatible devices and platforms. (Actually, Disney is probably announcing a bunch of Disney Plus stuff this week asD23kicks off, an event I’ve never reported on before....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 412 words · Randy Anderson

Dive into the Pokémon Go Water Festival with triple Stardust, Kyogre's return and more

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Dive into the Pokémon Go Water Festival with triple Stardust, Kyogre’s return and more August 04, 2025 Get ready to celebrate the summer days with the return of the Water Festival inPokémon Go. Despite arriving a little latercompared to last year, the second Water Festival event features plenty of Water-type Pokémon to catch as well as a number of welcome trainer bonuses....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · Angela Johnson

Do we need 4K display smartphones? Qualcomm certainly thinks so

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Do we need 4K display smartphones? Qualcomm certainly thinks so July 01, 2025 I’m sure many of you would argue that 1080p smartphone displays offer all the resolution you need. Those who disagree probably don’t see much need in going past the latest wave of QHD handsets.Qualcommbegs to differ and has come up with a number of arguments as to why we should all find the prospect of4K mobile displaysexciting....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 570 words · Patrick Fox

Epic Games Store

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Epic Games Store - Everything you need to know July 07, 2025 In December 2018, developer Epic Games surprised many people in the gaming industry by announcing and quickly launchingthe Epic Games Store.This new digital marketplace not only offers games made by Epic itself but from third-party developers as well. It’s already being touted as a major competitor to Valve’s Steam game store on the PC and Mac side, and could even attract Android game developers away from theGoogle Play Storewhen it launches for that OS sometime in 2019....

May 31, 2025 · 7 min · 1442 words · Sylvia Jackson

Eric Schmidt to leave role as Alphabet's Executive Chairman, will become a "technical advisor"

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Eric Schmidt to leave role as Alphabet’s Executive Chairman, will become a “technical advisor” June 11, 2025 Google’s parent companyAlphabetannounced a major shake up in its executive ranks today. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, will step down from his role as Executive Chairman on Alphabet’s board of directors, which he has held since 2011. The change will officially take place during the company’s next board meeting in January 2018....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 272 words · Timothy Nash

Firefox Focus gets a little bit better with autocomplete and more search engines

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Firefox Focus gets a little bit better with autocomplete and more search engines June 17, 2025 It’s been over a year sinceFirefoxlaunched its privacy-focused Focus browser, andMozillahopes to double-down on the app’s popularity by giving you faster access to your most visited sites and the ability to add any search engine you want. With the latest update, which Mozilla announced through itsblog, you now have the option to turn on URL autocomplete....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Dawn Webb

Google delays launch of dedicated coronavirus website

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google delays launch of dedicated coronavirus website August 25, 2025 Update, August 14, 2025 (5:04AM ET):Google’s dedicated coronavirus website is now delayed. As mentioned in the original article below, the website was supposed to be up and running on March 16. However, Google has toldThe Vergethat the website will now go live later this week. The new website will also provide information about screening and testing for COVID-19....

May 31, 2025 · 3 min · 469 words · Jennifer Massey

Google Docs and Sheets on Android now support add-ons

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Docs and Sheets on Android now support add-ons July 23, 2025 Google is giving you one less reason to think of theDocsandSheetsmobile apps as simple document viewers. You can now install powerful add-ons for Google’s mobile office utilities. What are add-ons for Docs and Sheets and why do you need them? These Android add-ons allow third-party applications to better integrate with Google’s productivity apps....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 290 words · Robert Moss

Google makes one third of all global online ad revenue, but there's trouble ahead

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google makes one third of all global online ad revenue, but there’s trouble ahead June 29, 2025 New figures released by Statista have shown just how huge advertising is to Google. The search giant officially earned one third ofalldigital advertising revenue globally in 2015: that’s 33.3% on the nose. Want to know just how much that equals? A cool $67....

May 31, 2025 · 2 min · 349 words · Carlos Terry