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For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Google is announcing new Android features to help combat messaging and phone scams, including enhanced protection mode in Google Messages.

Google is launching new Android security features, including built-in protections for Google Messages and call forwarding, to block scams before they happen. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said it’s using its AI technology to offer some of these protections and is already flagging 5 million suspected scam calls and texts every month…

Apple isn’t exactly famous for making its gadgets play nicely with Android. The Apple Watch is a particularly stubborn example, which can only be paired with an iPhone — at least as far as Apple is concerned. But an enterprising developer has found a way around that restriction, managing to pair an Apple Watch Ultra…

It’s been less than a month since YouTube said it planned to let users post GIFs in the comments section. The time has come, and this is just the beginning of a gradual rollout.

To round off the month of September, Google rolled out a feature-packed update for Google Home and its Gemini integration, improving the AI assistant’s ability to hear you in noisy rooms, making it respond faster, improving multilingual conversation reliability, and more. The tech giant is following that up with the first Google Home update for…

In response to more AI-generated content appearing on streaming services, YouTube Music is adding a new AI label directly to the player.

YouTube Music is currently testing a new look for album art, giving the player a sprawling background that stretches across the top third of the page. While that experiment is limited to a small number of users at the moment, YouTube is rolling out a separate change that’s available widely. This update brings some much-needed…

WhatsApp is making it easier to makes calls with everyone by introducing the ability for non-WhatsApp users to join a call without needing an account.

Google has announced a fresh set of Android updates that enlist artificial intelligence to defend against human fraud, expanding AI’s role in detecting and blocking scam attemptsaddition of an optional “Enhanced protection mode” to Google’s Messages app, which Google will roll out to devices in “the coming weeks.”

One of the nice things about Galaxy phones is how customizable they can be. With the Good Lock app, you can modify almost your entire experience, from adding custom styles and animations to notifications to adjusting the layout and spacing of tiles in Quick Settings. However, as with any software, a bug can ruin the…