If you're headed from the Hudson Valley into New York City for either work or pleasure, a new app released this week will make your trip a whole lot easier. Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the ...

Android users who source their apps from locations other than Google’s Play Store are used to side-loading APK files. That process, according to Google, is about to get a shade more complicated. For ...

My daughter lives in California. I am in New Jersey. We follow each other on Find My — not because either of us has to, not because there is any kind of parental rule in play. She is a grown adult. We ...

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

Android users face a new, deliberate process for sideloading apps from August 2026. A mandatory 24-hour wait, developer mode activation, and security confirmations are required. This high-friction ...

New Sideloading Rules In a blog post, Google announced that it will only allow installation of apps from verified developers on Android devices. This means developers distributing apps outside the ...

Radical Shift in the Android World: APK Sideloading is Getting Harder! Google is introducing a mandatory device reboot and a 24-hour waiting period for installing APKs from unverified sources on ...

It has been known that Google was planning to make big changes to how sideloading on Android works, and it seems it has finally settled on a way to secure Android while still keeping the platform ...

Last summer Google announced plans to tighten security on Android phones and tablets by requiring app developers to register with Google and blocking installation of ...

Google has detailed how users will be able to sideload apps from unverified developers once it implements its more restrictive policy towards downloading software on Android. The company originally ...