Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. The new Orb app from the founders of Speedtest and Down Detector offers comprehensive analysis of internet connection health beyond ...

When figuring out what’s happening with an errant internet connection, most folks turn to online or app-based speed tests, most notably the venerable gold standard, Speedtest.net by Ookla, for initial ...

We are now so accustomed to everything we use requiring some kind of internet access that it's easy to forget about good, old offline functionality. Yet even in our hyper-connected age of social media ...

Tired of constant pings? There's a super cool WhatsApp trick that lets you show only a single tick for incoming messages, ...