Venezuela has no national earthquake warning system. Yet moments before two huge quakes hit on Wednesday, millions of phones lit up. Google earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million people, the company says, buying some of them up to two minutes to act. The warnings came from Google’s Earthquake Alerts system, which turns ordinary Android phones into […]
Google is rolling out Android 17 to Pixel devices starting today, delivering multitasking tools, a dedicated foldable gaming mode, and a set of privacy changes that limit how much data apps can collect by default. The update reaches Pixel phones first and will expand to devices from Samsung, OnePlus, and other manufacturers throughout 2026. A […]
Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and carries 137 remote commands, giving an operator near-total control of an infected phone. The malware, which Zimperium calls Rokarolla after its command-and-control infrastructure, can steal lock-screen PINs, read and send SMS messages, rewrite the clipboard […]
Google has released Android CLI at a stable version 1.0, giving AI coding agents a direct line into Android Studio’s capabilities without ever opening the IDE. The announcement, made at Google I/O 2026 on 19 May, is a frank acknowledgement that many developers now build for Android using third-party AI agents rather than Google’s own tools. The […]
Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formalise a set of announcements that Google began rolling out a week early […]
The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the earliest and most persistent experiments in decentralised virtual worlds, appears to have reached a different […]
