Google is introducing a new “app quality bar” for the Play Store to give more prominence to higher-quality titles. The Google Play Store will steer users away from low-quality apps and games by ...

Over the last few days, the Google Gemini AI application has shot up the ranks to become the most popular free app on iOS and Android, thanks to a new trending feature introduced with Gemini 2.5, ...

The app economy is booming. In the first nine months of 2017, £25 billion was spent in the Apple App Store and Google Play around the world, with 95 per cent of revenue coming through in-app purchases ...

A new image editing feature has helped Google’s Gemini to dethrone ChatGPT as the most popular iPhone app in the UK and US. The Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model, known as “Nano Banana”, has achieved viral ...

The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. It’s amazing what a powerful driver human curiosity can be. Just look at Google’s noble-minded ...