Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and users are concerned about the privacy of uploading a government ID or face scan to ...

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 ...

Dhruv Bhutani has covered the Android ecosystem since 2010, with a focus on smartphones, connected devices, and home networking. His reporting is informed by hands-on experience reviewing hundreds of ...

Oracle Java reconsideration is widespread: 88% of Oracle Java users surveyed said they are considering alternatives, driven mainly by cost and licensing concerns. Cloud waste remains a major cost ...

More recently, it — again, alongside the Royal Oak — helped drive the modern luxury watch boom, resulting in a hyper-inflated market that is just now coming down to reality. So successful was the ...

Starlink may be the next frontier of internet technology. A part of Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink introduced a new kind of satellite internet in 2015 with a "constellation" of small, low-orbit ...

Indonesia has launched a massive new project on Java’s northern coast, framed as protection for millions of residents from worsening environmental threats. The plan has drawn sharp criticism from ...

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has long been the best-known Photoshop alternative. Its wide range of functions, robust layer management, and extensive set of filters come very close to the ...