The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices

Google also says Android 17 Beta 1 debuts new performance optimizations with better management of system resources. The OS ...
Telefónica

GitHub Copilot in Android Studio: tailoring it to your workflow

Learn how to customize GitHub Copilot in Android Studio with instructions, prompts, chat agents, and automated commits.

The Best Alternative Operating Systems to Get Google Off Your Phone

Whether you have privacy concerns or you just want to freely tinker, these are our favorite alternatives to stock Android.

Google releases the first beta of Android 17, adopts a continuous developer release plan

Google on Wednesday released the first beta of Android 17, which brings performance improvements and a way to add new features to media and camera apps. Most importantly, it’s changing how developers ...
InfoWorld

First look: Run LLMs locally with LM Studio

This desktop app for hosting and running LLMs locally is rough in a few spots, but still useful right out of the box.
Gizmochina

Four more Motorola phones get access to Android 16 beta program

Motorola has really improved its software rollout pace, delivering faster updates this time, and hopefully, it will only keep getting better. The latest Android 16 update is already available to over ...
Computerworld

The best Android feature you (probably) aren’t using

Here in the land of Android, we’ve got an almost comical kind of first-world problem: So many new features fly our way so frickin’ often that it’s all too easy to overlook something interesting — or ...
Time

Why Aren’t We Using AI to Advance Justice?

Women gather at a neighborhood square in Lilongwe, Malawi, on June 8 Women gather at a neighborhood square in Lilongwe, Malawi, on June 8Zafer Goder—Anadolu/Getty Images In Malawi, one in three women ...
The Conversation

Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...
Houston Public Media

Families can soon apply for Texas’ $1 billion school voucher program. Here’s how it works

The application window for Texas' new statewide school voucher program will open Feb. 4. New details for the $1 billion initiative, known as Texas Education Freedom Accounts, or TEFA, were released by ...
inforum

Plain Talk: 'We've just got too many programs'

MINOT — North Dakota has made large strides toward using investments of public funds not just as a way to generate revenue for the for the state, but also making those investments in North Dakota ...
TechCrunch

You can now share live video with emergency services on Android

Google launched Android Emergency Live Video on Wednesday, which allows people to stream video when contacting emergency responders. This feature could help give first responders extra context in ...