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While it didn’t scale in the way it really needed to, contact tracing was a big deal as tech was utilized in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19. An issue on the Android side of the Google/Apple COVID-19 contact-tracing API, though, may have allowed other apps access to the logs stored on your device. Privacy was, understandably, a big priority for the contact tracing APIs that Google and…

Recently, Samsung made Google Messages the default messaging app on the Galaxy S21 series outside of the US, instead of their own app. It seems the next step of this change is that Google has more widely launched a redesign for the Messages app that looks more like Samsung’s One UI on Galaxy S21 series phones. The obvious advantage of bringing Google Messages to the Samsung Galaxy phones is…

One of Samsung’s ISOCELLL sensors was the first (on mobile) to breach the 100 MP barrier and Xiaomi was the first company to use it. Now as Samsung prepares to launch the first 200 MP sensor, Xiaomi prepares to once again be the first to use it. So says leakster , though without any time frame for when that might happen. Another well-known leakster, , says that the 200MP sensor will have 0.64…

Samsung is working on the Galaxy S21 FE, that should be the successor to the successful Galaxy S20 FE from last year, and launch at some point in the next few months. The S20 FE was a sort of ‘flagship killer’ device from Samsung itself, and it looks like the company will want to reprise its success. It turns out, however, that it plans on doing that with the exact same battery capacity. Rumor…