Samsung’s Games Optimization Service (GOS) was recently found to be limiting the performance of several popular apps on Galaxy smartphones. This performance throttling was supposedly for preventing devices from overheating and also improving battery life. But it was not just game apps that GOS was slowing down. The service was also stopping several other widely used apps such as Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, which aren’t as power-hungry as game apps, from running at their full potential....

As usual, this offer is only good for those that are new subscribers. You might have some luck if you were subscribed at one point and haven’t been subscribed for a while, but that mileage may vary. You’ll get unlimited access to every song on the service. It’s also ad-free, always. And you can skip songs whenever you want. Which is pretty much standard for streaming music services, but there are some out there that do still have ads and only a certain number of skips per day....

This is a major jump from a minimum of 512MB RAM that Google mandated a couple of years back to support GMS on Android devices. It came following the launch of Android 11 in the second half of 2020. At that time, the company also announced that devices shipping with less than 2GB of RAM and running Android 10 or Android 11 out of the box must use the Android Go edition....

Announced back in August 2019, Google originally planned to roll out Privacy Sandbox this year. A year ago, the company pushed back the deadline to the end of 2023 because it needed more time to get things right across the ecosystem. It turns out an extension of one year won’t be enough. The tech biggie is needing even more time to get the tech ready for prime time. According to Google, it released multiple trial versions of Privacy Sandbox over the past several months for developers to test and provide feedback....

Google Drive has long allowed users to set an expiry date for shared files and folders. After that date, the other person cannot access the file. But all this while, you could only add the expiry dates after sharing the file or folder. You needed to amend permissions from the menu after you have shared the file. Google is now simplifying this by letting you specify an expiry date for access to a file before sharing it....