After several months of developer previews, Privacy Sandbox is entering beta for Android 13 early next year so that developers can more widely test “private advertising solutions.” This beta is aimed at ad tech and app developers with privacy-preserving APIs that limit user data sharing with third parties, and don’t use cross-party identifiers. The Privacy Sandbox Beta requires developers…

As cloud gaming has improved, Microsoft has been not-so-secretly working on an Xbox streaming device known as “Keystone,” but as it turns out a big part of the reason the company canned the project was its price. Last month, Xbox chief Phil Spencer revealed that the Xbox “Keystone” device had been canceled for the time being, with a dedicated piece of hardware for streaming from Xbox…

In addition to custom durations, Google Chat will soon let you schedule a recurring DND (Do Not Disturb), which are useful for lunch breaks and the weekends. Open the Active indicator in Google Chat and select Do Not Disturb. Once rolled out on Android, iOS, and the web, “Set a do not disturb schedule” appears below the various time increments. You can create several and quickly toggle them…

Apple’s new Emergency SOS iPhone via satellite feature is now live in the US and Canada with support for more countries coming soon. Read on for how to test iPhone Emergency SOS messages via satellite so you know how to use it in case you ever need to rely on it. Apple launched the new safety feature for iPhone 14 users today. Here’s how the company describes it: “Available on all iPhone…