Bookseller Barnes & Noble stopped developing Android tablets in-house many years ago, but the company has continued to sell rebranded versions of existing tablet for folks looking to read NOOK eBooks, ...

As a long-time staple on Pixel phones that recently took over for Samsung Messages in the U.S., Google Messages is the closest thing we have to a default texting app on Android. It has built-in RCS ...

Google is pretty good about adding protections against phishing texts and other scams. Look what it did with the Circle to Search feature on Android devices.

Chrome on Android has offered a Reading mode for several years now, and Google is now significantly redesigning it. Update 2/28/26: As of this month, Chrome for Android’s Reading mode redesign is ...

Google is widely rolling out a “Mark as read” button for Google Messages notifications on Wear OS. The new button only appears when a Messages notification first arrives. moji reactions, which we ...

If you're interested in going paperless, you probably think you need a scanner. It's true that hardware scanners make turning multipage documents into PDFs very simple. But most of us don't have easy ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...

I’ve bounced between ebooks and audiobooks for years, usually picking whichever format fits the moment. Audible’s new immersive reading tool makes a pitch for doing both at once. In my experience, the ...

Google Pixel users who enjoy being on the bleeding edge and participating in Google’s Android Beta program will be happy to hear that an Android 17 beta will be rolling out sooner than they ...

Researchers have spotted new malware embedded in the firmware of Android devices from multiple vendors that injects itself into every app on infected systems, giving attackers virtually unrestricted ...

Android users are poised to anywhere between $100 to $135 million as part of two new Google settlements. Android users accused Google of programming its Android operating system to collect their ...