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Google’s Identity Check for Android keeps phone thieves out of your digital accounts

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Google’s Identity Check for Android keeps phone thieves out of your digital accounts Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeGoogle is officially launching a new Android security feature for Pixel devices with Android 15 to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts. The feature, called Identity Check, requires biometric authentication to access some account and device settings when you’re not at a trusted locatio…

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Perplexity now has a mobile assistant on Android

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Perplexity now has a mobile assistant on Android Image: The VergePerplexity has turned its AI “answer engine” into a mobile assistant on Android. The new assistant can answer general questions and perform tasks on your behalf, such as writing an email, setting a reminder, booking dinners, and more. It’s also multimodal, meaning you can ask it questions about what’s on your screen as well as ha…

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Popular opinion: android should support dark mode icon

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Popular opinion: android should support dark mode icon Like in ios18, every dev should provide 2 icon variation: one for dark and one for light, or at least make background change from white to black. As you can see here, Google choose not to implement it, I say, let’s change that decision. submitted by /u/DragonfruitMore8530

Reddit Android 426 2025-01-22

Cars with Android Automotive are about to get a lot more apps

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Cars with Android Automotive are about to get a lot more apps Image: Umar Shakir / The VergeGoogle is set to launch its Android Automotive app conversion program this February that helps developers convert their Android apps to in-vehicle screens. As reported by Android Authority, the “Car ready mobile apps program” guides Android developers to make slight changes to apps so they can be available in vehicl…

The Verge 516 2025-01-16