Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Google will start taking action on Android apps in the official Google Play store that have high background activity and cause excessive battery draining. Apps that exceed a "bad behavior threshold" ...

NORMAN — Track and field runs in Isaiah Sategna’s DNA, and that has allowed him to be a football standout at Oklahoma. Sategna, a transfer wide receiver from Arkansas, has been a threat in his first ...

Android’s open nature set it apart from the iPhone as the era of touchscreen smartphones began nearly two decades ago. Little by little, Google has traded some of that openness for security, and its ...

When R Mason Thomas was a child, his goal was to become an NFL running back. Thomas, a defensive lineman entering his senior year at Oklahoma, primarily saw running back reps throughout his youth ...

Lock screen widgets on Android may soon get the slick background blur effect. The visual change was spotted in the new Android Canary build and should align it with Google’s new Material Expressive 3 ...

Finally, the Delaware marijuana industry got some good news. The FBI issued the state marijuana office a service code, which will allow background checks to actually begin in Delaware. Those with ...

Background removal is an elusive business. It’s hard to find tools that offer background removal, let alone good ones, and it’s much harder to find any that offer it as a free feature. There are a ...

An Oklahoma Senator with an extensive background in law enforcement and government agencies is reacting to the New Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans. What does ...

Google only officially announced Chrome’s “Listen to this page” capability last month as part of the latest Android features for the fall season, and an update this week adds support for background ...

Google Meet launched AI-generated background images on the web last year, and it's now in development for the Android app. This feature was spotted as part of an APK teardown of the latest Gmail app ...