Used an Android Phone After 2017? You Might Get Part of Google's $135 Million Settlement Millions of Android owners could receive a payment of up to $100. Anna Gragert Senior Editor, Health and Home Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, the deputy editor at So Yummy and the senior lifestyle editor at Hunker. Over the past 12 years, Anna...

Attorney General Ken Paxton wins Texas Senate primary, defeating CornynAttorney General Ken Paxton routs veteran incumbent Cornyn in Texas Senate primary48 minutes agoAnthony ZurcherNorth America correspondentStewart F. House/Getty ImagesTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton easily defeated Senator John Cornyn in a Republican run-off primary on Tuesday night.While the outcome had been expected for...

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Meta’s metaverse leaves virtual reality Meta has announced a major update for its immersive virtual world, Horizon Worlds, on Thursday that will see it leave the metaverse behind. The tech giant said it’s shifting focus for Horizon Worlds to be “almost exclusively mobile” and that it’s “explicitly separating” its Quest VR platform from the virtual world. Meta’s Reality Labs division for...

How to Adjust Your iPhone's Liquid Glass Appearance in a Few Easy StepsApple released iOS 26.5 on May 11, and that update brought end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging to your iPhone and more. But when Apple released iOS 26.1 in November, that update introduced a way to adjust some Liquid Glass elements across your device. This new setting could help resolve readability issues some...