The Best Alternative Operating Systems to Get Google Off Your Phone

Whether you have privacy concerns or you just want to freely tinker, these are our favorite alternatives to stock Android.
Android Authority

Check out Android's expected 2026 update and release cycle

It’s all very messy. Even someone like me, whose job is to follow Android, kept getting confused by all the overlapping update cycles and feature releases. So I dug in and tried to make sense of the ...
Android Authority

Android updates explained: Betas, Canary builds, and what you should use

If you have ever read about a new Android feature and wondered why your phone doesn’t have it, or why some people are talking about it months before Google officially announces anything, you are ...
The Business Journals

NorthPoint Development to hold grand opening for massive Statesville industrial park

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Park 4077 is expected to include ...
Android Authority

The Galaxy S26 launch date is all but official at this point

Trusted leaker Evan Blass has claimed that the Samsung Galaxy S26 phones will launch on February 25. This corroborates recent leaks and rumors about the launch date. Samsung is expected to reveal the ...
VentureBeat

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several ...
ZDNet

How AI and Rust are rewriting Linux and Windows programming

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.
ONE

ADF-17 Replenishment marks a turning point in African-led development finance

London, 16 December 2025: The conclusion of the African Development Fund’s 17th Replenishment underscores a meaningful shift in Africa’s development financing model, with African countries ...
ZDNet

I wore Google's upcoming Android XR smart glasses, and it's a future I'd actually want to live in

Google announced three advances in its Android XR platform. They're headlined by display AI glasses that will be available to developers first. Galaxy XR and Project Aura also get updates that improve ...
PC Magazine

I Tried the New Android XR Smart Glasses From Google and XReal. I Didn't Expect to Be This Impressed

Google's Android XR platform and XReal's Project Aura are bringing smart glasses closer to mainstream reality, offering developers powerful tools to create practical, everyday wearable experiences ...
Ars Technica

The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

Last year, Apple finally added support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) texting to its platforms, improving consistency, reliability, and security when exchanging green-bubble texts between the ...