Android Auto is best known for accessing your phone from the dashboard of a car – so you can easily access Google Maps, music apps, and data without using your phone. But for years, Google has also been offering an Android Auto experience right on a phone for people who don’t have a compatible dashboard … Read more
In an APK teardown of the latest version of the Peloton Android app, 9to5Google found evidence that the company is preparing the software to support a rowing machine in the near future. The point of sale found various code snippets that mentioned a device with the code names “Caesar” and “Mazu”. The latter is a … Read more
WhatsApp chats already have end-to-end encryption, but what about your online backups? They too will be covered soon. As The Verge notes, WABetaInfo found that the latest WhatsApp beta for Android (2.21.15.5) includes a test for end-to-end encrypted cloud backups. Sign up and you don’t have to worry about hackers or spies being able to … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 24th, 2021. There’s a wealth of tech news out there today, but at the very top, if you’re into the advertising market, go here … Read more
Google’s approach to protecting Android’s privacy comes under fire after Arizona’s antitrust investigations into phone tracing. As Insider reports, recently unedited documents indicate that Google has made it difficult to find the privacy settings for Android. When Google tested versions of the operating system that showed privacy features, the company reportedly saw increased use of … Read more
Clubhouse’s young Android app will soon be much easier to find. TechCrunch reports that Clubhouse will make the Android version of its drop-in voice chat app available worldwide within a week. It will reach Brazil, Japan and Russia on May 18, and India and Nigeria will have their first look at it three days later. … Read more
Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store – assuming you live in the US The voice-based social network released its beta Android app on the Play Store for users in the US on Sunday, stating that the new app will gradually be available in other English-speaking countries and … Read more
This week, Honda unveiled the 11th iteration of its longest running model. In addition to a new look, there are also some notable technical differences in the 2022 Civic sedan. Further highlights of the revised model are changes to the driver assistant technology, which became standard in all equipment variants from model year 2019. The … Read more