The best Star Wars apps for Android

Disney Plus Star Wars is one of the largest stories humans ever told. It spans multiple decades, multiple movies, multiple books, and multiple video games. You can literally engage in Star Wars content for years and not repeat anything. As such, you would expect a ton of great apps for it, right? Well, there definitely are some good ones to help your Star Wars experience even more. Here are the best Star Wars apps for Android.

Vivo Apex 2020 announced: Specs and features

Vivo’s Apex line is the company’s yearly concept phone that showcases its most forward-thinking features. It started with the pop-up selfie camera and in-display fingerprint sensor in the original Vivo Apex concept phone we saw at MWC 2018. Last year, we saw a portless and buttonless phone in the Apex line. Now, we have a new concept phone from the brand: the Vivo Apex 2020. Interestingly, this phone takes the two biggest innovations of each of the previous Apex phones and melds them together.

Vivo Nex review: Frustratingly imperfect, undeniably desirable (Update: Video added)

Vivo Nex SThe Vivo Nex brings some truly cutting-edge technology to the table but does so with an all-too-common mix of familiar failings. Even though we don't think it's the phone you (or we) really wanted it to be, it's still one of the most exciting phones we've seen in a long time. Table of contents The best part of the move to truly bezel-less phones is the weird and wacky solutions to the question of where to put everything that used to live above and below the display.

What I learned from downgrading

Upgrading was a huge deal in the early days of smartphones. Every year we’d see massive gains in performance, display, camera, and more. I remember this experience well, such as when I upgraded from Nexus 4 over to a Nexus 5. While today’s phones continue to obviously improve, it’s a much more incremental process. Recently I was forced to temporarily downgrade from my Google Pixel 4 XL to a Google Pixel 2 XL.

7 features we'd like to see from Google's next smart speaker

Adam Molina / Android Authority The Nest Audio is Google’s flagship smart speaker, and generally pretty popular, at least judging by reviews and the company’s overall speaker sales. But it also launched in October 2020, so it’s virtually guaranteed that we’ll see an update within the next year or so — Google can’t afford to stay complacent when Amazon is continually updating its Echo lineup and Apple is likely working on another HomePod.

AT&T's free TV service will have 31 channels for launch (Update: Live now)

Update: 6/29/2018 at 1:02 P.M. EST: The free live-streaming TV service announced by AT&T after its successful merger with Time Warner is now live. As described below, the service gives AT&T wireless customers access to 31 different channels, with more to come in the future. Click the button below to sign up for one of the new unlimited mobile data plans that comes with the live TV offerings. Original Article (06/21/18): As promised by its CEO last week, AT&T has revealed more details about its new “skinny” live-streaming TV service, WatchTV.

Dell Black Friday 2021: Best laptop and desktop deals

Dell has slashed prices on a lot of its best-selling laptops. It’s also cutting down the costs of some of its desktop systems, so both bases are covered. With the ongoing global chip shortage, there’s no saying how long these Dell Black Friday deals will last. If any of these seem like a good deal to you, we recommend grabbing it ASAP. You don’t want to miss out by waiting until the last minute!

Here's how to download the Google Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 wallpapers

The Google Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are now available to purchase. They are Google’s first stab at 5G phones and phones with an ultra-wide rear camera.  However, you don’t have to buy these phones if you simply want to get the Pixel 4a 5G or Pixel 5 wallpapers. We have already shared a selection of them earlier in 2020. More recently, XDA-Developers (via Twitter user @forherpieces) obtained and shared three sets of wallpapers that are available for the new Google phones.

How easy is it to capture data from open free Wi-Fi?

If you have read my article on what is a VPN? or read my review of Express VPN, you will have noticed that I recommend a level of caution when connecting to free public Wi-Fi hotspots. The reason is that all the traffic that goes from your device to the Wi-Fi router is unencrypted and because it is unencrypted then anyone who is within range of the same Wi-Fi signal can look at your Internet traffic!

How to write to a file in Python (TXT, CSV, DOCX)

Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build useful tools like word processors and spreadsheets. Let’s find out how to write to a file in Python! How to write to a file in Python – .txt files The simplest way to write to a file in Python is to create a new text file.