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Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Using Google's products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world's largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won't use the sensitive data from products like Gmail, Drive, and Photos for ad personalization, but a change to the company's privacy policy appears to dismantle that firewall. On October 16, Google issued an update to its privacy policy, spotted by Android Authority. The ad personalization…
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Smartphones
Apple Store Pickup for iPhone Duo Starting to Resume But Very Limited
The option to reserve an iPhone Duo for Apple Store pickup is starting to return on Apple's online store, with the system live again in countries such as Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea. Unfortunately, our spot check revealed extremely limited availability right now, with few to no time slots available for all configurations. We only managed to find a single iPhone Duo unit available for Apple Store pickup in Australia on Saturday at…
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Apps & Logiciels
9to5Mac Daily: October 23, 2026 – MacBook Pro rumors, iPhone Duo apps
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Backup you can rely on. Save 20% with code 9to5daily. New episodes of 9to5Mac Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to…
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Wearable
Your Pixel Watch is getting smarter about tracking activity with Google Health 5.11
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Just in time for next week’s Fitbit Edge release, Google’s rolling out a new version of Google Health. Version 5.11 of the app is rolling out on now, and it makes a major improvement for automatic activity detection. As reported by 9to5Google, Google Health version 5.11 expands automatic activity tracking from a handful of exercises up to more than 100, including strength…
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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are solving right now
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for a full day of candid conversations, practical sessions, live pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables built for deeper discussion. The roundtables are where attendees can get especially specific. Bring your questions, share what you are seeing in your own company, and join experts and fellow founders tackling many of the same challenges, from…
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Apps & Logiciels
Friday’s Android app deals and freebies: DREDGE, Slaps And Beans, Thronefall, more
Friday’s best Google Play app and game deals are ready, including DREDGE, Slaps And Beans, Argo’s Choice: Offline Game, The Ancestral Legacy, Ticket to Ride, Thronefall, Demon Castle Story, Lumino City, and more. Just be sure to dive into Pixel Watch 5 at up to $150 off, the most affordable Galaxy Z Fold 8 at over $400 off, and a new all-time low on Lenovo’s latest Tab Plus Gen 2. The apps await below.…
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Smartphones
Report: Apple gains ground in China as smartphone shipments hit 14-year low in Q3
Rising memory prices continue to weigh on the global smartphone market, with shipments in China alone falling 10% year over year in Q3. Here are the details. A few days ago, IDC reported that smartphone shipments in China fell 15.4% year over year in Q3 2026, with Apple increasing its share of that total to 17.8% despite a 4.3% decline in iPhone shipments. The report echoed the broader global trend, with IDC estimating that…
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Apps & Logiciels
Google will target ads based on Gmail, Photos data if Personal Intelligence is enabled
If you’re an Android user, you’ve probably trusted Google with mountains of your own personal data over the last couple of decades. Now, a new privacy policy update suggests that the company is finally dipping into that data to target personalized ads, and you can’t opt out with disabling Personal Intelligence. As spotted by Android Authority (via The Verge), Google’s new privacy policy update — which went into effect one week ago on October…
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Smartphones
iPhone Duo has hidden trick that solves a common complaint
iPhone Duo is officially out in the wild, and users keep discovering new details about the device. The latest: there’s a hidden trick that makes opening Control Center significantly easier. When iPhone Duo reviews dropped earlier this week, one common complaint I saw is that in left-handed use, opening Control Center can be a pain. Like on other iPhones, you open Control Center by swiping down from the top-right corner. If you’re using iPhone…
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Tech News
Not a fan of full-screen Calling Cards? Keep an eye out for this update
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. One of the Google Phone app‘s coolest additions may have started out as a bit of a copy of Apple’s Contact Posters, but an upcoming option could help Google differentiate its implementation. The feature I’m talking about is Calling Cards, and it looks like Google wants to give users more flexibility over how they appear on your phone’s screen. Up until now,…
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Smartphones
iPhone Duo Jailbroken on Launch Day
Just hours after being released, an iPhone Duo running iOS 27.1 has been jailbroken by hacker team Calif. Calif demonstrated the iPhone Duo's icons and widgets bouncing around, and added an anime character to the device's screen. Last week, the group shared videos featuring an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1. The device was shown rebooting, with root access available after the reboot. CC @pwnlambda https://t.co/xpwddwn7tw — Calif (@calif_io) October…
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Amazon slashes the $400 Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 to just $270
Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The Lenovo Tab Plus Gen 2 just dropped to $269.99 on Amazon, down from its $399.99 RRP. That’s a $130 saving and a 33% discount relative to the recommended retail price, and it’s especially worth a look right now because this deal matches the lowest price ever. That kind of price cut stands out even more on a tablet built for watching,…
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Apps & Logiciels
Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army
What old and vulnerable software might be running on your PC right now? What old and vulnerable software might be running on your PC right now? Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA’s least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the “Netflix of Piracy” software is still installed on millions of devices that…
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Inside the Pentagon, the pressure is on to find a home for a new spaceport
Leaders in the US Space Force would like to have a new spaceport up and running in four years, adding a third heavy-lift launch site to relieve pressure from bases in Florida and California that have shot rockets into orbit for nearly 70 years. The obvious problem with that ambition is 2030 is four years away, and Pentagon officials have not determined where the new spaceport should go or how to acquire land for…
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IA
Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
You have got to listen to these conversations with Block’s new Dessa AI model. You have got to listen to these conversations with Block’s new Dessa AI model. Jack Dorsey’s Block announced an AI model called Dessa that’s trained “from scratch on nothing but human conversation,” and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example,…
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Tech News
Apple Seeds Updated watchOS 27.2 Release Candidate
Apple today seeded an updated version of the watchOS 27.2 release candidate, four days after the first RC became available. Registered developers and public beta testers can download software through the Apple Watch Settings app or using the Apple Watch app on iPhone. watchOS 27.2 adds new Siri AI features and extends Siri AI to more languages. This update provides enhancements to Siri AI, including the ability to retain useful context from previous Siri…
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Carta and NewView partner, hoping to entice more startups to let employees sell shares early
Startups are staying private longer, leaving employees, who typically take a portion of their compensation as stock they can’t sell, with little hope of early liquidity. An increasing number of late-stage startups are recognizing this and offering tender offers to employees. These are transactions that allow employees (and, often, early investors) to sell a portion of their shares for a predetermined price to an approved investor. To simplify the tender process, NewView Capital recently…
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Apps & Logiciels
Spotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plans
As reported by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify appears to be stepping up enforcement of existing policies regarding Family and Duo subscription plans by requiring users to scan a QR code in person on the plan manager's device in order to maintain access to it. Those who fail to scan the address verification QR code within seven days will see their account demoted to the free tier and be barred from joining any other Duo…
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Apps & Logiciels
watchOS 27.2 gets new RC ahead of next week’s launch
Apple has just released a second RC (release candidate) build of watchOS 27.2 for testing. Here are the details. Next week, Apple is launching its wave of 27.2 software updates—likely early in the week. iOS 27.2 is the biggest highlight, but there are new features also coming to tvOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, and more. While watchOS 27.2 doesn’t offer as many changes, it seems Apple decided the software wasn’t quite ready to ship yet.…
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Accessoires
Galaxy Buds On leak gives us a 360-degree look at Samsung’s upcoming earbuds
Credit: Samsung TL;DR The Galaxy Buds On were recently spotted listed on several European retail pages. The leak reveals that Samsung’s new earbuds could launch in Europe during the first half of December. Newly surfaced animations also provide a 360-degree look at the hardware. Samsung is getting ready to expand its audio device lineup with the addition of clip-on earbuds. Known as the Galaxy Buds On, the company finally confirmed the existence of the…
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IT & Science & Technology
Next week’s MacBook Pro could be huge upgrade, but with one problem
Apple has a fully redesigned MacBook Pro launching next week that promises to be a major upgrade, except in one key area. Next week on October 28 at its ‘Pro and tell’ event, Apple is expected to unveil a redesigned MacBook Pro with major improvements. If most or all of these rumors prove true, it’s going to be a big upgrade for the MacBook Pro. But there’s one crucial area that’s not expected to…
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Smartphones
Download the iPhone Duo’s official light and dark wallpapers here
Even if you’re not planning on getting an iPhone Duo, you can now download its light and dark wallpapers for any of your devices. Get them below. Apple launched the iPhone Duo today, its first foldable iPhone, with dedicated wallpapers for its displays in both light and dark modes. The wallpapers depict a landscape of sand dunes against a mountain range, with subtle differences in lighting and color between the two modes. The light…
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Tech News
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Building a startup means making decisions before you have all the answers. When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor, how do you make sure your pitch earns another conversation? On November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will…
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Accessoires
Soundcore’s latest noise-crushing headphones are on sale for a new low price
My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — and their successor has only improved upon their winning formula, albeit with a $30 price increase. Thankfully, the Soundcore Space 2 are currently on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart in all three colors for an all-time low of $106.49 ($23 off), making them even easier to recommend. Soundcore…
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