TechCrunch

Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling

An anti-doomscrolling feature is now built into Android. (Yes, things have gotten that bad.) On Tuesday, Google announced Pause Point, which is designed to keep users from engaging with addictive apps ...
T3

Android's new Pause Point could be the most helpful and healthy anti-doom-scroll update in years

Android has added a new feature called Pause Point which is aimed at helping people fight doom-scrolling. This works by requiring a 10-second pause after you open an app that you've labelled as ...
Android Authority

Android is getting a gentle new way to combat your doomscrolling habit

Google has announced Pause Point, a new Android Digital Wellbeing feature designed to interrupt distracting app sessions. It doesn’t stop you like a timer, but it will interrupt longer app sessions ...
MarketWatch

Traders point to suspicious activity in the oil market on Wednesday

Trading volume in U.S. crude-oil futures suddenly spiked early Wednesday in the hour before a media report sent prices tumbling — the latest in a pattern of suspicious activity in the market for oil ...
The Financial Express

Why Android 17 could be Google’s most exciting update in years

Google's Android 17 has lots of AI at its center. The Android 17 update is all about AI, security and privacy. In a year where Apple is expected to reveal a relatively mild update to iOS, Google’s ...
Indiatimes

Android 17's 12 biggest new features, from Gemini doing your shopping to a panic button for doomscrolling

Android 17 isn't trying to sell you one thing, which is unusual. Google's second Android Show on Tuesday, a week before I/O, ran through features that touch almost every part of the phone: the ...
9to5google

‘Pause Point’ is the Digital Wellbeing upgrade Google’s needed to deliver for years

It’s been nearly a decade since Google launched its suite of Digital Wellbeing tools on Android, but despite the occasional upgrade, I’m not sure how much its app timers and dashboard displays ever ...
GIGAZINE

Android 17 will introduce a 'Pause Point' feature that adds a 10-second cooldown before launching distracting apps.

To prevent behaviors like ' doom scrolling,' where people endlessly scroll through negative news on their smartphones, Android 17 will introduce a 'Pause Point' feature that sets a 10-second interval ...
Droid Life

Here’s Even More Android 17 Features You Need to Know

Google may have revealed a bunch of major feature changes for Android 17 earlier this week through the latest edition of “The Android Show,” but they weren’t done. Today, the Android team dropped a ...
Droid Life

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2 Releases for Pixel Phones

Following the first Android 17 QPR1 Beta release a couple of weeks ago, Google is already back to give us Android 17 QPR1 Beta 2. There must have been enough critical bugs that they couldn’t wait ...
The Independent

Google launches new Android feature that forces you to stop doomscrolling

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...