Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

Following tragic instances of violence caught on camera, such as the recent case involving conservative political figure Charlie Kirk, many people online were disturbed by how quickly clips spread.

There are times when you may want to prevent videos and GIFs from automatically playing in your social media feeds. This could be because you’re trying to conserve cellular data, limit the ...

Every day, new videos beam onto your smartphone that you probably didn’t expect (or want) to watch. Certain services, like TikTok, Instagram, and X, are entirely based on autoplaying videos as soon as ...

Oasis Security has uncovered a flaw in the widely used AI-powered code editor Cursor that lets malicious repositories silently execute code the moment a developer opens them. According to a disclosure ...

Google Play Store is getting a new ‘auto-open’ feature to automatically open newly installed apps. There’s a new toggle that appears below the install progress bar in the Play Store as soon as the ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

Adam is a lifelong gamer who enjoys RPGs, action adventure games and a healthy helping of VR to boot. He has written for countless sites in the gaming medium, and you can find him playing the newest ...

Beginning this week, Max is adding an AI component to autoplay video previews on the homepage — the clips that start playing when a user hovers over a title. The feature, which is designed to improve ...

Users are reporting that videos start automatically playing as soon as they open the YouTube app. The videos autoplay even if you have autoplay disabled in the settings. A YouTube support ...

Roku has begun running video ads that automatically play before loading the home screen, as reported by Ars Technica. This is impacting owners of Roku-branded smart TVs and streaming sticks, so long ...

Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video advertisements on the home screen. Now, Roku is testing what it might look like if it took things a step further ...