Biometrics are moving way beyond fingerprints: To fight fraud, companies are building databases on people’s behaviors and movements.

The European Commission will launch a new investigation into the massive amount of charger waste seen in the region each year, by encouraging manufacturers to use a common phone charger. It has been pushing for change since 2009, but considers the efforts already made unsatisfactory.

Go to Google Maps and zoom out. Halfway out, the map’s perspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe. Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with landmasses of the appropriate size.

No more lying about missed calls, pal.

Tech companies keep talking about digital well-being lately. The idea is to ensure that smartphone and app users aren’t just whiling away their hours in a tapping, scrolling stupor, and that the time spent on their digital devices is purposeful—and lasts only as long as necessary. At its annual developer conference in June, Apple announced a feature addressing this called Screen Time. It allows iOS users to monitor how much time they spend in each app they open as well as set daily limits on app usage.

Over the past few weeks, some owners of the 2016 Pixel XL have reported problems using quick chargers on Android P. For most of that time, Android P was still in beta, so bugs were to be expected. Unfortunately, issues with quick charging are still present in the final 9.0 release.

Until just last month OnePlus was in a category of its own with no competition nearby. OnePlus’s approach till now has been to cater specs hungry audience by using the latest & greatest hardware coupled with good design and a functional software at upper mid-range prices. Now this approach is being implemented by other players as well and things have changed just in a span of a month.

People who know me also know that I'm a fan of Android the way Google builds it on its own phones. Anyone can build Android and is free to add or take away whatever parts they like, but the small additions that Google adds make Android something unique and awesome. But later this year, I may not want to use a phone from Google.

T-Mobile and Nokia have announced a $3.5 billion deal that will see Nokia provide T-Mobile with “complete end-to-end 5G technology, software, and services” as the carrier continues to build out its 5G infrastructure. “We are all in on 5G,” commented T-Mobile’s chief technology officer Neville Ray in the announcement. Nokia will help build T-Mobile’s 5G network on both the 600 MHz and 28 GHz millimeter wave portions of the spectrum, in accordance with the 3GPP’s 5G New Radio (NR) standards.

If you're going to catch them all, you need to have the right kit. Grandfather Chen San-yuan has rigged 11 smart phones on his bicycle to play the augmented reality game, Pokemon Go. He plans to add four more. The Taiwanese man, affectionately known as Uncle Pokemon, learnt about the game from his grandson, and can play up to 20 hours straight before he runs out of battery power for his devices.

Android 9, aka Android Pie, brings numerous tasty improvements.

We disassembled the phone and asked security researchers to probe it to find out what it is. Verdict: It's wild.

When Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps, it ignited a cultural, social and economic phenomenon.

Firefox for Android has entered a maintenance phase as the team prepares to release an entirely new browser called Fenix.

What type of phone, camera, or another device a guy has can really say a lot about him. If clothes make the man, then gadgets, uh, well, they’re pretty important too. Here’s what his gadget says about him. Gadget: iPhone X What it says about him: The iPhone guy is a guy who likes options. He likes …

I still can’t believe this is a $250 phone. The Moto G6 looks and feels like a phone twice its price. It has a great screen, a comfortable design, a clear speaker, and in the few weeks I’ve been using it, no obvious performance issues (despite its budget price and processor). I certainly do have complaints and nitpicks, but I still keep picking it up and thinking, “How on earth is this thing only $250?”

Throughout the history of the iPhone, there has been one thing that’s been by its sides this whole time: a SIM card. However, this may be disrupted soon as the grand debut of the eSim is coming. The eSim is a chip that is soldered to the phones circuit board, as opposed to a chip that’s inserted into the phone. Apple wants this for a couple reason. For one, they have been trying to get rid of all ports on the iPhone to make it completely waterproof (remember the headphone jack?).

Who's really the best mobile carrier? J.D. Power's survey shows Verizon on top.

Instagram’s future growth depends on the developing world, so it’s built a version of its app just for them. “Instagram Lite” for Android appeared today in the Google Play App Store without any announcement from the company.

Sending pictures to others is one of the most basic functions of a smartphone, but when your phone’s texting app starts randomly pushing out photos without your knowledge, you got a problem.

The camera could identify products, songs, and item barcodes

A story about Voodoo and donuts -- but not the kind you're thinking.

Apple today announced that stores will have iPhone X available for walk-in customers, who it encourages to arrive early, on launch day. Presumably, this will include both Apple's own retail locations and select authorized resellers. iPhone X will go on sale in more than 55 countries and territories on Friday, November 3. On the same day, the first deliveries will begin to customers. iPhone X pre-orders begin this Friday, October 27 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time.

There's a lot we can say about Samsung's Galaxy Note 8, but one of its hallmark features is its massive 6.3-inch curved AMOLED display. This display is a true beauty for watching movies, playing games, and browsing the web, but as some of our forum users are quickly discovering, it's not necessarily the most practical thing in the world.

The internet is awash in theories about Facebook using your smartphone's microphone to eavesdrop on your conversations. It's not. Here's why.

New type of polymer glass that can mend itself when pressed together is in development by University of Tokyo after a student discovered it.

In his keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo in January of 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the world to the first-generation iPhone. Before he held out the device as if it were some sort of beacon of light, he famously stated, “Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone.” How right he was.

Last March, the Nintendo Switch launched. Since then, it’s been lighting up sales charts everywhere. The launch of the Switch caused Nintendo’s business to change in two ways: it officially phased out the Wii U, but it also cast a bit of a shadow on the company’s previous breadwinner, the 3DS. After a rocky start, the 3DS has been able to perform very well over the past few years. Its success has been bolstered by several hardware revisions, creating a family of six different models. The latest one, the New 2DS XL, just launched last summer.

Smart glasses that won’t make you look like a Google Glasshole.

2015's Alto's Adventure was a surprise hit. It launched on iOS as a premium game with no microtransactions, and it landed at the top of App Store charts all over the world. It was developed by Team Alto, a collaboration between a Canadian company called Snowman and artist Harry Nesbitt, which had not previously published a game. Its sequel, Alto's Odyssey, launched this week to positive reception once again—the game has a 91 on Metacritic.

By using a standardized, secure version of Google's Android in its new smartphones, the Nokia brand seeks to rise from the ashes.

Vero was supposed to be the better Instagram. It was supposed to save social media. It was supposed to do loads of things that other blip-on-the-radar social networks like Ello and Peach promised. Turns out Vero doesn’t do very much of anything, and its CEO is genuinely awful.

Everyone knew the MoviePass deal is too good to be true — and as is so often the case these days, it turns out you're not the customer, you're the product...

Video games development simulator Game Dev Tycoon now has an ultra difficult "Pirate Mode" where your software gets pirated. Emulating the real world problem of piracy, this advanced option will see reduced sales on all of your games. "Bankruptcy is likely", you are told.

Lyft made a lot of progress in 2017, helped by strong market expansion within the U.S. and riding some very bad news from its primary rival, Uber.