Every time you hit play on a video, chances are you have Al Bovik to thank for its visual quality. Bovik, professor and Provost’s Chair in Engineering in the Department of Electrical, Computer and ...

This underappreciated ability will make your favorite phone even easier to use — especially when you're out and about in the world. Psst: Come close. I’ve got something to share with you, and I don’t ...

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Meta quietly reorganized its recommendations team last fall to form an elite AI research lab. Yang Song, a former TikTok executive, heads the unit. The crucial Meta division has been adding top talent ...

The recently released 6.3 version of Apple’s Swift programming language features the official release of the Swift SDK for Android, which means that developers can now use Swift to write Android ...

The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it’s not a social network but an AI assistant that allows you to design your own algorithm, create custom feeds, and, one day, vibe-code ...

Android 17 features a number of location privacy updates, with the latest introduced in Beta 3 being the “location button.” The new location button provides “simplified access for one time use,” with ...

Google has announced a new mechanism in Android called Advanced Flow, which will allow sideloading APKs from unverified developers for power users in a more secure manner. The new system, scheduled to ...

Android’s most diehard fans were less than pleased when Google announced plans to limit the sideloading of apps, in an effort to create a more secure platform. The backlash from power users was ...

A hot potato: A year after announcing the most significant change to Android in a long time, Google is now introducing a new process aimed at making the mobile platform "open" again. Mountain View ...