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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Drone Rush 2018 state of the industry report June 08, 2025 We are getting ever closer to halfway through 2018, and it has been a great year so far fordrones. New gear from establisheddrone manufacturerslike DJI have led the way, while newer players like Uvify have broken onto the scene with a straight up need for speed. We’ve seen and done a lot with drones so far this year, so please join us for a little rundown of some of our favorites....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Facebook passes new milestone with its AI research August 15, 2025 Facebookmay be best known for its huge social network, but the company is also conducting research in exciting computing fields, including artificial intelligence. The company has been speaking a little more about how far it has come with its machine learning research this week and is preparing to put some of its technology to work in consumer products....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fear Street: Everything we know about Netflix’s new horror trilogy June 20, 2025 Nostalgic millennials and horror-heads assemble! Streaming giantNetflixis launching a trilogy of feature-length films based on R.L. Stine’s celebrated young-adult book series Fear Street this summer. Just thinking about Fear Street has me yearning for the simpler days of rushing into a Scholastic Book Fair, ready to spend what little cash my parents had deemed appropriate for the event....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. For 2019, expect more Nokia smartphones in the U.S. August 18, 2025 Even though HMD Global is one of the fastest-growing smartphone makers in the world, its presence in the U.S. leaves much to be desired. That might change in 2019, when HMD Global looks to expand its presence in the U.S. In an interview withDigital Trends, HMD chief marketing officer Pekka Rantala acknowledged that the U....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Fresh OnePlus 6T leak may have revealed price, RAM/storage, launch colors August 22, 2025 In just under two weeks theOnePlus 6Twill be official and all our burning questions surrounding the latest T-series phone will have been answered. Chief among those unanswered questions is how much the phone will cost. Thanks to a new leak allegedly revealing the phone’s launch details in India we not only have a better idea of what models are on the way, we might also be able to at least hazard a guess at the global price....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge Plus battery confirmed? July 09, 2025 Another day, another leak and the latest could answer one question that a lot of people seem to have about Samsung’s upcomingGalaxy Note 5andGalaxy S6 Edge Plussmartphones: just how big is that battery going to be? A leak from perennial tipsterEvan Blass (aka @evleaks)has revealed both of Samsung’s upcoming smartphones will be powered by a 3000mAh battery, which is 450mAh larger than theGalaxy S6and 400mAh larger than theGalaxy S6 Edge....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Galaxy S21 FE production reportedly halted, but what does Samsung say? July 01, 2025 Update: July 25, 2025 (10:36 AM ET):Samsung has toldAndroid Authoritythat it doesn’t comment on rumor and speculation after a now-deletedETNewsreport alleged that the company has suspended production of the Galaxy S21 FE. The Korean news outlet claimed that production of the phone had been halted due to the global chip shortage....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Home adds support for Indian music streaming services Saavn and Gaana August 13, 2025 Google is rolling out support for Saavn and Gaana, two popular Indian music streaming services, for the Google Home. A Google Home user in Indiaposted a screenshoton Reddit of the Google Home app that showed both music streaming services listed alongside Google Play Music....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google launched a ‘Fortnite Task Force’ after Epic skipped the Play Store June 02, 2025 Epic Games made a decision thatFortnitewould skip the Play Store back in 2018, arriving on the Galaxy App Store at first. It now turns out that this move may have spurred the creation of a ‘Fortnite Task Force’ within Google. Details of the task force emerged in a legal filing made by Epic this week (h/t:Bloomberg), citing internal Google documents....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Lens is coming to the Chrome browser, getting more powerful on phones July 31, 2025 On yourAndroid smartphone, Google Lens can be a powerful tool. You can use it with your camera’s viewfinder and identify real-world objects. You can use it to search for text within an image, and then even copy-and-paste that text into other apps. It’s too bad that power doesn’t exist within your desktop browser, right?...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Play Books now has a beta program with some nifty new test features June 23, 2025 If you’re a frequent reader, you might useGoogle Play Booksas one of your sources for new reading material. Lucky for you, Play Books now has some beta features designed with heavy readers in mind. You can give them a shot right now if you’re interested!...

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google Play Store is in the cross-hairs again for its Epic 30% cut July 14, 2025 Epic announced that it wassuing the Google Play Storelast week after Fortnite was removed from the storefront for implementing a direct payment system. The studio introduced its own payment option which offered a 20% discount over the Google payment option. Now, a new antitrust lawsuit has been filed by law firmHagens Bermanin California (h/t:Apple Insider) over Google’s practices related to Google Play distribution and in-app payment processing fees....

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more. Google’s dishing out festive new features to Android, other products this month July 23, 2025 Googlehas announced a slew of new feature additions and updates coming to its various platforms over the next few weeks. In an announcement on its blog, the company revealed that the likes ofAndroid, Gboard, and Android Auto will all see some festive feature love this year....