Ron Amadeo 
Enlarge / The Overture Maps logo. Overture Maps Foundation reader comments 102 with 0 posters participating Share this story Google Maps is getting some competition. The Linux Foundation has announced Overture Maps, a “new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open … Read more
reader comments 108 with 0 posters participating Share this story A developer’s cryptographic signing key is one of the major linchpins of Android security. Any time Android updates an app, the signing key of the old app on your phone … Read more
Enlarge / A smartphone gets repaired. Getty Images / krisanapong detraphiphat reader comments 53 with 39 posters participating Share this story Samsung is introducing an interesting new feature for people sending in their Galaxy phones for repair: “repair mode.” When … Read more
Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses… that will be $1,400. Ron Amadeo / Hasbro reader comments 71 with 61 posters participating Share this story Google is quietly enlisting the help of … Read more
Bloomberg / Getty Images reader comments 66 with 54 posters participating Share this story Google says it has fixed a major Chrome OS bug that locked users out of their devices. Google’s bulletin says that Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.165, which was … Read more
Enlarge / A Google Argos VCU. It transcodes video very quickly. reader comments 115 with 72 posters participating Share this story Google has decided that YouTube demands such a huge transcoding workload that it needs to build its own server … Read more
Enlarge / The Fairphone 2 and its many modules. reader comments 132 with 70 posters participating Share this story Fairphone—the sustainable, modular smartphone company—is still shipping updates to the 5-year-old Fairphone 2. The company won’t win any awards for speed, … Read more
reader comments 310 with 210 posters participating Share this story The new Google Pay app came out of beta this week, and it marks the first step in a major upheaval in the Google Pay service. Existing Google Pay users … Read more