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Google Meet’s ‘Take notes for me’ tool is about to correct its biggest oversight

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Right now, Meet’s note-taking solution is text-based. And while that may be perfectly fine, if not even preferable for many meetings, there are also those where text-only notes are inevitably going to miss out on something — like if a colleague is screen-sharing […]

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It’s not just you: There’s a major outage impacting T-Mobile (Update: Carrier statement)

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Update, July 27, 2026 (07:22 PM ET): T-Mobile just reached out to Android Authority to share an update on the situation: Original article, July 27, 2026 (05:34 PM ET): If your T-Mobile, Verizon, or AT&T smartphone finds itself stuck on Wi-Fi this afternoon,

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YouTube Premium’s Peacock perk has me worried about what’s next

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. What concerns me, however, is what this partnership could mean for YouTube Premium over the next few years. YouTubeLet’s step back and see the bigger picture here — The Peacock announcement isn’t happening in isolation. Bundling Peacock (with ads, I might add) with

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Nothing reportedly has its first smartwatch in the works

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Nothing may finally be getting ready to enter the smartwatch market. According to tipster Yogesh Brar, the company is developing its first smartwatch, with a launch reportedly planned for September. Brar says the wearable will carry Nothing’s distinctive design language, be priced below

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As Grand Theft Auto 6 hopefuls grow anxious for a gameplay trailer, AI GTA 6 slop is getting millions of views on social media

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These AI-generated videos are, in some cases, garnering millions of views on apps like Instagram and Tiktok. Though many eyes may be drawn to these hastily cobbled-together representations of Rockstar Games’ blockbuster, the reaction they’re receiving is anything but glowing. Starting with Instagram, this AI-generated video from Nexifygaming shows a woman in a white dress

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Apple sued over fake App Store crypto wallet app stealing $1.8M in Bitcoin

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Apple is being sued by three people who claim approximately $1.8 million in Bitcoin was stolen after downloading and using a fraudulent Sparrow Wallet application from the App Store. The complaint, filed on July 24 in California, alleges that Apple failed to adequately review and monitor applications distributed through the App Store while promoting the

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Shigeru Miyamoto thinks people don’t care about console specs that much anymore, believes Nintendo instead provides “gameplay that only we can create”

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As picked up by Nintendo Everything, Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu talked to Miyamoto last week, with a focus on how Nintendo has developed new ways to play over time – especially since the Wii and DS era. Even if the Nintendo Switch family of consoles feels more traditional in their approach to controls, it marked

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Is Your Phone Actually Worth It? Share Your Thoughts

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Your phone is essentially a miniature computer. They help us stay connected with friends online, organize our schedules and even stream our favorite shows. And you probably have a strong opinion on how your phone performs, its battery life and which features are actually useful — and which aren’t. This month, we’re asking which phone

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Your Galaxy phone will soon force a factory reset if you forget its PIN

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. We’ve all been in situations where we’ve entered the PIN for our Android phone‘s lock screen incorrectly. The Android platform used to be fairly lenient about the number of incorrect PIN attempts allowed on the lock screen. As we recently learned, Google has

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Xbox service is down, with outages meaning players can’t play any digital or physical games, after similar PlayStation Network issues last week

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Xbox’s live status page currently shows the ‘account & profile’, ‘store & subscriptions’, ‘games & gaming’, and ‘apps & mobile’ services are all down with a ‘major outage’. Other parts of the online infrastructure, such as multiplayer and cloud-based games, as well as some functionality like sharing screenshots and captures, are seemingly untouched by the

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