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Google Blocked 266 Million Risky App Installs, Prevented 1.75 Million Policy-Violating Apps in 2025

Google on Thursday detailed its new enforcement measures to keep the Android ecosystem secure in 2025. In its annual security update, the Mountain View-based tech giant highlighted how it strengthened protections across Google Play, while blocking millions of harmful apps that could’ve spread malware, financial fraud, hidden subscriptions, and privacy invasions, bef...

Motorola Edge 70 Fusion India Launch Teased on Flipkart; Leaked Marketing Image Hints at Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 SoC

Motorola has teased the Edge 70 Fusion on Flipkart ahead of its India launch, with more details set for February 23. Leaked marketing images confirm the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset and up to 12GB RAM. The phone may feature a 6.78-inch 144Hz quad curved OLED display, IP68 and IP69 ratings, and a 7,000mAh battery with 68W fast charging. It is also expected to offer leat...

Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro With Ability to Execute Complex Tasks; Pomelli Gets New Photoshoot Feature

Google, on Thursday, released the Gemini 3.1 Pro AI model, the latest addition to the Gemini 3 series, which was launched in November last year. The new model is claimed to have been designed to perform more complex tasks than the Gemini 3 Pro. It is now available to all users in the Gemini app. However, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get higher rate limits for t...

Xiaomi 17T Pro, Xiaomi 17T Tipped to Launch Earlier Than Previously Expected, Chipset Details Leaked

Xiaomi introduced the Xiaomi 15T and Xiaomi 14T in September in previous years. However, a new leak suggests that the Chinese tech brand will change this launch pattern this year. The Xiaomi 17T series is tipped to launch in May. The standard Xiaomi 17T is said to run on a MediaTek Dimensity 8500 chipset, while the Xiaomi 17T Pro variant could run on the Dimensity 950...

Google Chrome Updated With Split View, Built-In PDF Markup Tools, and More Features

Google announced a new set of productivity-focused improvements for the Google Chrome browser on Thursday. The Mountain View-based tech giant says the new additions are aimed at helping everyday and enterprise users manage tabs more efficiently and complete tasks faster. Among the updates is a new tab organisation tool called Split View, which displays two tabs at the...

Another World by Melvyn Bragg review – portrait of the broadcaster as a young man

Leaving behind Cumbria for Oxford in the late 1950s, Bragg navigates class and culture in a world on the brink of change

It’s October 1958, and a nearly 19-year-old Melvyn Bragg is on the platform at Wigton railway station, saying goodbye to his childhood sweetheart, Sarah. He is off to read history at Wadham College, Oxford, one of the youngest in his cohort because national service is being phased out. Another World starts here, picking up the story left off in Back in the Day, Bragg’s previous memoir about his childhood and youth in this small Cumbrian town.

Oxford to Bragg seems “more a theatre than a city, a spectacle rather than a habitation”. After his prelims, the weeding-out exams in his second term, he is left alone until his finals. He discovers Ingmar Bergman and has many earnest pub conversations about whether Pasternak will get the Nobel prize, or jazz is superior to rock’n’roll. He goes on the Aldermaston march and joins the anti-apartheid movement – although in hindsight he sees this as inspired by a residual faith in empire, with South Africa as Britain’s moral responsibility. Even after Suez, he owns a pencil sharpener in the shape of a globe on which the empire is “a continuous governing blur of pink”.

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