I’m PCMag’s senior writer covering smart home and wearable devices. I’ve been reporting on tech professionally for nearly a decade and have been obsessing about it for much longer than that. Prior to ...

The FBI is warning that the BADBOX 2.0 malware campaign has infected over 1 million home Internet-connected devices, converting consumer electronics into residential proxies that are used for ...

Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, ...

How did we ever live without navigation and rear-view cameras in our cars? For Android users, the same can be said about Android Auto. It’s become an essential feature that allows drivers to stay ...

Turning an Amazon Fire tablet into a device that feels like a stock Android tablet involves several steps, including installing the Google Play Store, changing the launcher, and disabling ...

The iPhone-to-Android switching process is usually plain sailing, but it’s always smart to back up before you begin anything like this. Back up first, and you won’t lose anything you care about. For ...

Windows 11's File Explorer isn't everyone's cup of tea, but that doesn't mean it's devoid of useful features. As it happens, File Explorer isn't only for exploring files on your PC, but your Android ...

HTMX is a newer technology that takes plain old HTML and gives it extra powers like Ajax and DOM swaps. It’s included in my personal list of good ideas because it eliminates a whole realm of ...

Lindroid is a new open source app that lets you install a GNU/Linux distro on an Android device and run Linux applications with full support for your phone’s hardware. It does this by putting Linux ...

Android 15 is coming later this year with a host of new features and enhancements. Google has already released a few Android 15 beta builds, revealing exciting things about the new OS. Unfortunately, ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...