Only a handful of Android applications have reached five billion downloads, with most of them being Google's pre-installed apps. Facebook reached the landmark last year, likely thanks to its partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs, and now Facebook-owned WhatsApp has joined the elite club.

New data published by CIRP reveals that Apple’s iPhone 11 series comprising of the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are a major hit in the U.S. For some, the term ‘major hit’ might be a bit of an understatement because all models launched last year have accounted for 69 percent of total iPhone sales. If that didn’t impress you, the $699 model, which is the iPhone 11, accounted for 39 percent of all iPhone sales.

You're at a friend's house, and upon realizing your iPhone is about to die you ask if they have a charger lying around. They only have an Android charger. You're stuck. The E.U. would like to stop this type of situation from happening by having a standard and singular charging port for all types of smartphones.

Just weeks after PayPal acquired popular coupon-finding browser extension Honey in November 2019 for $4 billion, Amazon shoppers were served a notification that the extension was a security risk. The security warning was first spotted by Politico editor Ryan Hutchins, and the timing of the message, as a Wired report points out, is suspect. Honey has been compatible with Amazon for years, so why was the retailer suddenly labeling it as malware at the height of holiday shopping season?

At OnePlus, we believe that every part of our device should provide the best experience possible to our users. With the OnePlus 7 Pro, we started pushing the envelope in display experience by introducing our 90 Hz Fluid Display, finely tuned to achieve a record-breaking A+ Top Tier Display Rating from DisplayMate. Today, we have finished the development of our next-generation display, and I’m excited to tell you more about it.

An alarming test carried out by Princeton shows that the five largest US carriers fail to properly protect their customers against so-called SIM-swap attacks. They were able to persuade the carriers to assign phone numbers to new SIMs without successfully answering any of the standard security questions. Once a phone number has been reassigned to a SIM in the possession of an attacker, they can reset passwords even on accounts protected by two-factor authentication (2FA)…

Ivanka Trump’s appearance at a major technology conference in Las Vegas has been met with a backlash from industry figures, who denounced her “privilege” and lack of tech qualifications. Trump spoke in a keynote session on Tuesday afternoon at CES, a consumer electronics trade show, on “the path to the future of work”.

The car navigates complex driving situations.

TikTok released a new set of updated community guidelines on Wednesday, and among them is a rule explicitly banning content that “denies well-documented and violent events have taken place.” The rule falls under the “hateful ideology” section in the new guidelines, and would apply to Holocaust denial, a TikTok spokesman confirmed to Business Insider.

Rainway has launched its peer-to-peer game streaming iOS app, which uses cloud gaming to enable PC games to run on iPods, iPhones, or iPads for free. The cloud gaming market is getting crowded. Google has launched Stadia, and Sony has its PlayStation Now service. Blade’s Shadow is on the market for a monthly subscription fee. Microsoft is preparing Project xCloud, which is in preview right now. And other services are in the works.

Why I removed windows from my tablet I have a HP Pavilion X2 10-n105nl: an hybrid laptop/tablet with detachable keyboard and touch screen display. I bought it in 2016 in order to take notes at university with its keyboard and a Dell active stylus.

Spectrum customers who are also users of the company’s home security service are about a month away from being left with a pile of useless equipment that in many cases cost them hundreds of dollars.

When I heard there’s a new banking app starting to trend, I had to take a look.I’ll be the first to admit, I haven’t looked at banking options for awhile I figured “they‘re all bad if you really look into it, so why bother?”. Actually… they’ll pay you AND a charity $25 each if you try it, so now you kinda have to for the sake of the children (or whatever).

An iPhone owner this week credited Apple's Emergency SOS feature with thwarting a sexual assault attempt in Virginia Beach, Va., an attack that could have turned deadly had police not received the automated alert.

A rather strange patent by Apple has been spotted. The report from LetsGoDigital shows the new patent sketches along with some mock-up screenshots for context. The patent is for a new Apple device that looks like it could be an iPhone, but it is missing a few necessary things that a current iPhone 11 Pro has.

Sonos has given new meaning to "programmed obsolescence" with its "Recycle Mode" trade-up program.

Today Brydge announced the Pro+ keyboard for the iPad Pro, which incorporates a trackpad. The keyboard was first revealed in connection with a lawsuit filed by Brydge against another keyboard maker that Brydge says violated a patent on the company’s keyboard hinge. Although Brydge’s official announcement doesn’t disclose when it will begin taking pre-orders, the company says it will be soon. Brydge also says that the first 500 pre-orders will be shipped in late February, with the remaining pre-orders shipping in late March.

Samsung has once again managed to beat Google's Pixel lineup and started rolling out the January security update for the Galaxy Note10 in Germany. Some Pixels are still stuck on the November patch.

Google says it only records interactions with connected devices like the Google Home speaker when we use the "wake word," of "Hey, Google," or "OK, Google." But when using many of the Google smartphone apps with a microphone for voice search, or even Google on the desktop with voice commands, it can actually record every word you say to it – whether you use the wake word or not.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in the city, many in a cluster of offices on the West Side.