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Stealing a smartphone isn’t particularly hard, and crafty criminals are taking advantage of an obvious exploit to get into stolen Android phones and iPhones to take over your digital life. Here’s how to lock down your Android phone, and other top stories from the past week on 9to5Google. 9to5Google has a rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary…

We’ve teamed up with SUPCASE to give away Samsung’s new Galaxy S23 to one lucky reader. For a limited time, you can also get 15% off SUPCASE’s new lineup of cases for the Galaxy S23, S23+, and S23 Ultra. Head below for a closer look and to enter the giveaway now. SUPCASE for Galaxy S23 SUPCASE is big on drop protection, which might not come as a shocker. Following that, the company’s…

It’s the sweetest part of each year’s Android release — the dessert for 2024’s Android 15 is set to be “Vanilla Ice Cream.” Android has had a long tradition of naming each of its major releases after desserts, continuing down the alphabet. From the days of Android Cupcake in 2009 through Android Pie in 2018, Google often had fun publicizing these dessert names and including them as…

Google has begun the process of bringing Chrome’s full Blink browser engine to iOS against current App Store rules, and now we have our first look at the test browser in action. Last month, Google quietly unveiled a new effort to port the Blink browser engine — used by Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers like Edge and Opera — to iOS. Under Apple’s current App Store policies, all web…