Sydney schoolboy Max Meyer told rescuers we need some help in a phone call just minutes before he was swept away in an avalanche.

A federal judge in California has ruled that law enforcement can't compel a suspect to unlock their phone with a fingerprint or face recognition. Combined with a ...

Samsung's first foldable smartphone is confirmed to launch in the first half of the year, and the handset won't have that many rivals, as other vendors are yet to ...

Samsung has a huge year ahead when it comes to new smartphone launches, as the company is expected to unveil the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy F on February ...

Slider phones might be the next big thing and might seem like an appealing solution to the notch. However, I don't think the fad will last.

OPPO is to announce a 10x lossless smartphone zoom camera but at what level of market readiness? That is the question that had a number of tech sites talking ...

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham brought the house down Tuesday when he delivered a deadpan crack about President Donald Trump having his phone ...

Two leaders discuss situation in Syria over the phone amid growing tensions over the fate of US-allied Kurdish fighters.

MeToo has entered Australia's Macquarie Dictionary. It's a rare kind of word, and also a vital one.

With just over a month before Samsung unveils its new smartphones, more rumors are swirling over its anticipated new top-of-the-line phone, expected to be ...

TARGET 7993. How many words of four letters or more can you make from those shown here? Each letter may be used once per word.
. Each word must ...

Karl Stefanovic is gone, axed from the Today show after what he himself conceded in a statement had been a “tough time.”

The Pixel 3 phones that Google launched back in October have the same components as most other 2018 Android flagships. But the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL were ...

The resurgence of cassettes brought out Mark Beaumont's red mist, but not entirely for the reasons he told Radio 4. It starts as a dull heat in the back of my brain, ...

The employee continued to use the slur despite the customer's threat that he'd put the video on WorldstarHipHop.

The Hisense U30 has reportedly been revealed at CES, and it ticks plenty of boxes for a 2019 smartphone. Expect a 48MP+5MP rear camera setup, ...

It looks like Sony is killing off the Xperia Compact range, too.

Saying there is no legal reason why Ajit Pai should rebuff an invitation to brief lawmakers during the government shutdown, the chairman of the House Energy ...

Longtime Ald. Edward Burke has spent decades at the pinnacle of the city's power structure, but in the end, he may have buried himself with his own words.

GLEN ALLEN, Mo. -- The Village of Glen Allen in Bollinger County was named after Thomas Allen, who donated some land for the community's development; ...

ANKARA, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that his country would establish a safe zone in northern Syria, following a ...

Jacques Kallis and Charlene Engels said their "I do's" at an estate near Hermanus.

If you call the telephone number listed on the website for the “Union SSR” trade union, a friendly woman answers the phone. For some reason, the first question ...

The company that makes your Android phone is doing Android memory management wrong. Because the best practices and in some cases actual requirements ...

Dressed in dhoti and a shirt, with a cotton bag dangling from his shoulders and holy ash smeared across his forehead, 40-year-old Dhanapalan (*name ...

There's no question about it, 2018 has been the year of the notch when it comes to smartphone design. All smartphone makers out there except for Samsung ...

I have a friend who took kindergarten prep very seriously. When her son began getting homework in preschool (“homework” and “preschool” being two words ...

In today's Fiver: Petr Cech, lost phone contacts, Brexit and more.

Very wealthy people are often targets for criminal hackers, tabloids and rivals, but there are steps anyone can take to avoid exposing sensitive personal and ...

NEW DELHI: Terms such as toxic, misinformation, nomophobia, single-use and justice remained in focus in 2018 and have been adjudged top words of the year ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play a word game with Tova Tenenbaum of Philadelphia.

For a country so famous for its big stuff, Brazil can, in a funny way, be thought of as the land of the tiny. Practically no word is immune from diminution.

As far as computers go, Chromebooks are almost shockingly low-maintenance. Google's Chrome OS operating system updates itself silently and automatically ...

The way we speak to a partner can betray our true feelings behind the words we use, and artificial intelligence has learned to pick up on these to predict whether ...

A meteorologist for a television station in Rochester was fired Sunday after he uttered a racial slur on air while describing a city park named after the Rev.

I want to explain to you why it's so difficult for me to speak — the diagnosis, all of it — and what my life is like now, because one day you'll be in my shoes, living ...

Google announced today that its Google Fi wireless *service* is adding support for Rich Communications Services (RCS) and faster international 4G/LTE speeds.

MANCHESTER -- A technical glitch temporarily shut down Panic at the Disco's sold-out concert Sunday night at the SNHU Arena, but for many fans it seemed ...

Two phone scams targeting local residents are taking aim at family ties. On Jan. 14, 2019, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office received a report of a phone ...

Rising suicide rates and depression in U.S. teens and young adults have prompted researchers to ask a provocative question: Could the same devices that ...

Here's every word Mauricio Pochettino said in his big interview ahead of Tottenham's match against Manchester United.

CHICAGO — When Jayme Closs, 13, appeared along a rural Wisconsin road on Thursday, she ended an 88-day search by hundreds of investigators.

Historians looking for an enduring symbol of American acrimony in the year 2019 might be tempted to focus on the latest government shutdown, an ongoing ...

A residents group has sued the Hackensack Board of Education demanding that it correct an error in the wording of a ballot question slated to appear before ...

LAS VEGAS -- At CES 2019, Google announced a number of new features that will make Google Assistant even smarter this year. Credit: Monica Chin/Tom's ...

PETALING JAYA: Former Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng was questioned by police officers from Putrajaya in Penang today over his Facebook post questioning ...

People still write her letters and prominent feminists have come to her aid. What is the enduring appeal of this murderess?

A big screen for the Super Bowl and a second screen to go with it, both at the lowest prices since late November.

If you have trouble remembering names, faces or phone numbers, these tips from memory champions and neuroscientists can help.

While on a youth retreat with my church a few months ago, I asked about 10 kids, ages 13 to 18, to take a few minutes and write down three words to describe ...

​​Kyrie Irving had some criticism for his younger teammates following the Celtics' loss to the Orlando Magic Saturday, and it appears to have resonated with ...

After being pulled from her car minutes before it was struck by a train Monday night, a 96-year-old woman underwent tests at Good Samaritan Hospital — an apt ...

Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter! Every Monday, S.L. editor Tim Herrera emails readers with tips and advice for living a better, more fulfilling life.

A 51-year-old Easton man is standing trial in Lehigh County Court this week on charges that he tried to arrange a sexual encounter with a 13-year-old girl he met ...

Dancing On Ice star Vanessa Bauer has hit back at Love Island's Megan Barton-Hanson after she wrote some harsh words about her split on Instagram.

Jan. 13. To the editor: The “Drive with Lights On” letter to the editor by Ed Dailey on Saturday, Jan. 12 was spot on. I also wrote a few years ago to then Rep.

For years, British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted that “no deal is better than a bad deal.” Her adversaries used those words against her in Parliament.

Here's how I got to bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery.

Javi Marroquin slammed his ex, Kailyn Lowry, for not wanting a relationship with his girlfriend, Lauren Comeau, in an interview with 'Radar Online.'

You know that gut-wrenching feeling when you drop your phone and have to check if the screen cracked? Yeah, that one. I know it all too well, because I drop ...

Will we ever collectively return to a time when dinners around the table included little more than food, your friends or loved ones, and polite conversation?

MOMENTS before United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a passenger left a voicemail for the wife he'd left ...

Answering if the Indian partners hosting the award approached him, Philip Kotler told India Today TV, "No Indian or outsider ever came to us. No one knew that ...

Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio is the proud son of a tailor, a prouder son of Dunmore, Pa., a burg of 14000 and change tucked next to Scranton along the ...

A senior track star at the University of Utah was killed by a registered sex offender with whom she had a previous relationship, police and university officials said.

Maulian Dana said this week that Rep. Benjamin T. Collings of Portland is sponsoring a yet to be developed bill that targets the use of Indians as a mascot for ...

Graham Corporation (NYSE: GHM) provides Q3 revenue estimate, updates Fiscal 2019 revenue expectations and announces quarterly teleconference call.

SARGEANT Ron Helus was on the phone to his wife when reports of a shooting first came through.

'His death is making people pay attention to the depression and mental illness that is hurting young people'

Mobile and landline telephone numbers are being hijacked by phone scammers, and it is taking a toll particularly on some victims in regional and rural Australia.

The scammers often pose as lonely and sad widowed men based on oil rigs or working for the United Nations in places such as Afghanistan or Syria.

CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY recently selected “nomophobia” as its word of the year, via a poll of readers. Those lucky enough not to have heard of this condition ...

HQ Words is here, and it looks like a really, really fun cross between Wheel of Fortune and Hangman.

Steelers president Art Rooney II said in a Thursday interview that it is "hard to envision" wide receiver Antonio Brown staying with the team right now, which ...

With support for Wi-Fi and 4G but some serious core issues, the new 8110 is both an improvement and a step back compared to last year's revived 3310.

Facebook has admitted that it uses the phone number provided by users for two-factor authentication (2FA) to target them with ads. Naturally, its repurposing of...

Facebook did not apply for a patent on turning your phone microphone on when a hidden signal plays on a TV. I know this because I simply read the patent ...

There's a right way and a wrong way to use your phone's autocorrect, says the person who invented it. Ken Kocienda, former Principal Engineer of iPhone ...

Former President George H.W. Bush spoke his final words in a phone call with his son, former President George W. Bush, a source familiar with Bush's final ...

Cory Monteith final words: Five years on from the Glee star's death, his mother has revealed the phone call she received from his girlfriend Lea Michele.

I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: "Mr. Watson, come here - I want to see you." To my delight he came and declared that he had ...

Apple and Samsung have been been fined millions for software upgrades that slowed phones.

The key to any successful relationship is effective communication. In the business world, this means trying to understand what consumers and clients are saying, ...

CNBC walks you through how to stop your iPhone from automatically correcting your text to say something you didn't mean to.

Those oddly pertinent ads on your timeline aren't just a coincidence, your phone is listening to everything you say.

New laws will be unveiled today aimed at helping the nation's spy agencies and police monitor and prevent criminal activity through phones and the internet.

Join me in a buzz-free, ping-free, vibration-free, light-up-free world.

A mixture of AI and augmented reality will bring books to life for children who cannot hear them being read.

By Mark Ellwood At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to globe-trotters in all of our ...

People are increasingly receiving nuisance calls and texts to their mobiles. But how do telemarketers and charities get your phone number? We look at the Do ...

Five years ago, in September 2013, Microsoft made one of the most ill-conceived acquisitions in tech history, purchasing Nokia for $7.9 billion. Having failed in ...

If you don't have a child who's deaf or has a hearing impairment you've probably not thought about how different story time each night must be in those situations ...

British author and frequent flier Tilly Bagshawe, who lives with her family in California, offers her top tips to make your foreign travels more comfortable.

John Schnatter—the founder, chairman and public face of pizza chain Papa John's—used racially offensive language on a conference call in May, a source with ...

If you don't spend most of your time on the internet, it can be hard to keep up with the evolving lingo of the digital age. Luckily, the editors at Merriam-Webster ...

Why does iPhone autocorrect still make so many mistakes? We spoke with Ken Kocienda, who helped create autocorrect for Apple, to find out why.

A new study suggests teens who get more exposure to cell-phone radiation — and hold their phones up to their right ear — do worse on one type of memory ...

At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to globe-trotters in all of our luxury fields—food, ...

AutoCorrect automatically fixes typos, which is convenient—but it thinks swears are typos. Your iPhone or iPad likes changing swear words into similar, incorrect ...

The tempo for major smartphone launches at the tail of the year is always a little hectic. You've got Samsung, Apple, LG, Google, Razer, Samsung (again) and ...