Owners of Samsung Galaxy S6, Sony Xperia Z3 and a bunch of other Android smartphones running Android 2.x through Android 5.x can go ahead and root their device using KingRoot (one-click rooting tool) ...

The Google Nexus 7 is a pretty great tablet right out of the box. It has a speedy NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. But ...

"The right to have root on your machine," that is, full administrator access to your computing devices including smartphones, is a "key issue," Sir Tim Berners-Lee told a geek-heavy audience at the ...

If voiding your warranty or bricking your device isn't risky enough, have you considered these other consequences?

Google released the developer preview of Android L on June 27th, and on the same day folks figured out how to root it. Rooting an Android device gives you superuser access to the operating system ...

To root or not to root? That is the question. Rooting your Android device definitely pushes you up a level or two in your geekdom. It requires a certain level of commitment, at least a little savvy, ...

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