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Ghostery Dawn is the latest browser that tries to protect your online privacy. Here's how to download and set it up. Image: Ghostery You’d like to be able to browse the web with some measure of privacy. That’s not an easy task with the major browsers. Instead, you can turn to a lesser known but more privacy-minded browser, and one candidate is the Ghostery Dawn browser. Must-read security coverage Made by the people behind the Ghostery browser privacy extension, Dawn tries to limit the…

Image: OnePlus Mobility must-reads My go-to phones over the past five or so years have been the Pixel line. Simply put, I really enjoy the pure Android experience and the top-of-the-line camera. Outside of those two features, the Pixel line has been quite the hit-and-miss experience. Take, for instance, the pathetic battery life found in the Pixel 4 or the underperforming Pixel 5. The Pixel 6 Pro fixed most of the issues that haunted the 4 and 5, which has led it to not only be my favorite phone…

After installing the first beta of Android 13, Jack Wallen is seriously impressed with what Google has done with the operating system. Image: quietbits/Shutterstock The first beta of Android 13 is now available to the general public. I installed it on a Pixel 5 to get an idea of what was coming for the next release of the platform. I knew, going into this, that Android 13 would feel like a massive let-down after how dramatically different the previous iteration proved to be. It wasn’t as if Google was…

You can more easily switch from an Android phone to an iPhone via a tool called Move to iOS. We'll show you how. Illustration: Lisa Hornung/TechRepublic/Adobe Stock Mobility must-reads You’re jumping ship from an Android phone to an iPhone and want to transfer certain content, such as contacts, photos, videos, files, display settings, mail accounts and calendar appointments. If you’re setting up a new iPhone with nothing yet on it, you can take advantage of an Android app from Apple…

Google Pixel 6Image: Google I’m not going to lie, I’m actually shocked I not only was able to successfully order a Pixel 6 Pro but that it came within a week of me ordering it. Aside from the disaster that was the release of this newest Google Pixel, the Pixel 6 is everything I was hoping it would be … and much more. SEE: Google Pixel 6 cheat sheet: Everything you need to know (TechRepublic) Mobility must-reads Understand, I’ve been a Google Pixel phone owner since the very first iteration. I’ve…

YouTube app on Android and iOS is getting a new animation on the like button. Tapping the like button will now produce a small confetti-like animation, making the process of liking videos on the content-streaming platform a more colourful experience. The feature is rolling out slowly. The animation on the YouTube like button was spotted earlier this year via Reddit. The like button on YouTube Web has no changes as of now. Earlier this month, reports had come out suggesting that YouTube might be planning to improve the…

Google on Tuesday announced the release of its Data safety section in Google Play that will allow users to look at the information about how apps collect, share, and secure their data. The move, which was first announced in May last year, is similar to how Apple introduced privacy nutrition labels in 2020. All developers publishing their apps on Google Play are required to complete the new section with information about how their apps collect and share user data by as early as July 20.Users will start seeing the Data…

Android Auto has been updated with Smart Reply, the feature that allows users to respond to messages by tapping suggested replies generated by the system. While Android Auto does not allow users to type messages on the screen, Google's app to access Android features and services on a car's head unit now supports the same feature available to users on their smartphones while using messaging apps. The updated functionality has begun rolling out to users, months after it was initially announced.The new Smart Reply feature…

Tablet shipments in India grew 28 percent year-on-year (YoY) in 2021 according to data shared by a research firm, indicating a rise in the popularity of the portable computing devices amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Lenovo dominated the tablet market with the highest percentage of tablet shipments in India, while Samsung and Apple were in second and third position. Meanwhile, companies like Realme, which have recently entered the tablet segment, also managed to capture a small percentage of the market…

Samsung Galaxy M31s is purportedly receiving the Android 12-based One UI 4.1 update in Russia. This smartphone was originally launched in 2020 with the One UI 2.5 skin which was running over the Android 10 operating system. Since then, it has also got the Android 11-based One UI 3.0 update. The latest update includes the March 2022 security along with numerous bug fixes and performance improvement tweaks as well. The Samsung Galaxy M31s is a slightly beefier version of the Galaxy M31, which has also received One UI…