Kat Pitman was settling into her aisle seat on a Southwest Airlines flight from Louisville to Chicago Friday morning, texting her husband, when her iPhone ...

Many people have come to Japan's "wind phone" after losing family in the 2011 tsunami.

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We're innodated with high-performance phone SoCs every year, but would your money be better spent on an aging flagship or a new mid-range phone?

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays a word game this week with KCRW listener Robert Wemischner of Los ...

It's time, folks. Time to admit Apple was right to introduce the notch for the iPhone X back in 2017. Oh, sure, it was fun to ridicule the little black strip at the time; ...

Smartphone addiction does not seem like a questionable thing to believe in. It exists. Surely it does, doesn't it?

The New Yorker unleashed a 10000-word story about the exclusivity of Augusta National on Friday. And the author did not hold back.

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As a child, Red was chatty and full of life - but only at home. When she left the house, everything changed.

I recently saw a funny post online. It was a chalkboard in a coffee shop with the following words “We don't have Wi-Fi. Talk to each other. Pretend it's 1995.

Google has announced that Google Drive and Google Photos will be separating in July. Google says, “the connection between these services is confusing,” so ...

To mark this Father's Day, we asked dads to describe a moment when they truly felt like a father, in 500 words or fewer. Here are some of our favorite essays.

We are entering an age in which you can no longer trust your ears or eyes. Bots, trolls and fake news merchants have demolished the idea that you can believe ...

Six people exercise extraordinary power in the current parliament. They are the Senate cross-benchers, senators whose votes are wanted, and courted, by both ...

Daniel A. Gross writes about what happened after he was offered ten thousand dollars as part of a new—and secretive—award for young writers.

On Tuesday morning, Barbara Petersen — president of the First Amendment Foundation, a Florida nonprofit that advocates for open government — got a text ...

What if scammers could learn your password not from a massive cyberattack or taking control of your device, but from listening in as you type?

She thought her purpose was to become one of the fastest runners in the country. But living with incurable cancer, Gabe realized her role in the sport was bigger ...

Do not be condescending or speak in a manner that suggests you are tired of her. Work on your healing too or your wounded heart will make you hurt her.

The doctor who helped save the life of a 4-year-old child critically wounded in the mosque shootings, says March 15 started as "just another day in the office".

The home affairs secretary is seen as a Dutton loyalist; he's also been a Labor staffer and is considered a fiercely independent mandarin. So who's the real ...

Euphemism: "an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant."

A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight was sent explicit images on her iPhone by another passenger.

Tracy Reeve, the Portland city attorney, has returned a professionalism award to the Multnomah Bar Association after one of her deputies made a racist remark ...

The Spanish word for “slaughter” is how Fulmencio Eladio describes what unfolded in his Guatemalan village just over one year ago. Sitting in his family's small ...

In life, there is no reset button. I had to keep reminding myself of that while riding an electric scooter through downtown Los Angeles on the way to E3 2019 all ...

The experience we know as password hell could be radically changed for the better within the next year and a half to three years. Struggling to come up with ...

Check out all the biggest storylines coming up this week in your favourite soaps here! CORONATION STREET. Sarah lies to Bethany and says she's going to the ...

Baby Constantin spent five months of his first year in a foster home. His family got a painful look at America's experiment with family separation as an immigration ...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Everyone has that magical place, the spot their eyes need to see or their foot needs to step just once before they take in their last ...

Just when you thought your phone wasn't secretly recording you, one of the football world's most prestigious sports organisations has been caught doing just ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — One company is asking one smartphone addict to take a break from their device and get back to the times of old by “downgrading” to a ...

The launch of the Google Pixel usually happens in October or November and year 2019 is not going to be an exception. The Pixel 4 will launch in India, and in ...

Five years ago this month, Danisch Farooqi dropped off his daughter, Aaliya, at her mother's house in the German port city of Hamburg. He remembers.

This could be the most valuable piece of information you learn all year, and I'm honoured to be the one to share it with you.

It's nearly impossible to discern when an infant's babbling turns into a fully formed word.

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Media Day at the College World Series in Omaha features all four coaches on a single side of a bracket speaking at the same news conference, and conversing ...

The founder of Telstra PhoneWords has led a consortium to acquire Telstra's 85 percent stake in the company, which sells personalised 1...

Hundreds of small businesses which fell prey to a phone directory listings scam will be relieved to know that the following relentless threats of legal action and ...

A couple of weeks ago I was part of an investigating team into Cussgate, a WhatsApp video chat involving my ten-year-old son and a group of his classmates.

Ultimately, three words led to the downfall of hands-free driving legislation that lawmakers hoped would finally allow police to crack down on widespread use of ...

Neil Swarbrick had officiated over 900 games in the Football League and the Premier League, before becoming a VAR referee and trainer.

A sheriff's deputy who was shot in the head in an apparently unprovoked attack at an Alhambra fast-food eatery was on life support Wednesday, while a Utah ...

“Take time for the beauty of the world so bright and sunny, and when it comes to work chase the dream, not the money.” That is one of the many little lessons that ...

He won Australia's richest prize for literature, but Behrouz Boochani wasn't there to accept it. He was on Manus Island, more than 2000 days after he arrived on ...

Before you even bring it up, no I'm not hating on LeSean McCoy because he spoiled Avengers: Endgame.Repeatedly over this offseason, the Buffalo Bills have ...

The world that my dad inhabited—the world of lawyers, government, and politics—was always a mystery to me growing up. As he nears retirement age, I've ...

Union drives at media organizations have been a source of rare good news for the labor movement.

As goofy as some of your smartphone keyboard's predictions are, at least it tries to not make you look bad.

What makes this new Apple spoof so dangerous is that it's taking advantage of the contact card likely already in your iPhone.

By not taking out insurance you leave yourself at mercy of airlines, tour operators.

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 NFL star and agency GS&P want to help turn meals into phone-free zones.

You can set up Google Assistant and "OK Google," the voice command behind it, on an iPhone or Android phone. Here's how to do it on both.

Popular apps such as TrueCaller or GetContact advertise the ability to see who is really calling you, even if you do not know the number, and alert the app user ...

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.

If you tried to text Ashton Kutcher today, you were prompted to sign up for a new messaging *service* called Community.

A vulnerability in Facebook's WhatsApp messaging app made it possible for attackers to spread surveillance software to mobile devices through a phone call.

Gmail's Smart Compose feature has been around on desktop and on Google Pixel 3 handsets since last October. it's now becoming available on more devices.

There's a serious bug in Apple's FaceTime video calling platform that has been bouncing around some corners of social media today, and that 9to5Mac just ...

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns a 5.4% stake in Apple, but he famously doesn't use an iPhone — or any smartphone for that matter.

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

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A mystery plagues two iOS users, but others must be affected?

Telstra is selling its stake in its Phonewords business to a consortium led by the company's founder Gavin Scholes and Aura Funds Management.

Three years ago, on the way to my apartment in Brooklyn to cook dinner for myself and a friend, we stopped into a grocery store that offered build-your-own ...

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.

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.

Millions of people routinely say “hey” to voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, even though the experience can be frustratingly glitchy. On Tuesday, Google ...

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

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Apple saw its biggest iPhone sales decline in almost three years over the holiday quarter, according to new Gartner data. That ties in with an overall pattern of ...

The serial killer was put to death ten years after the trial dramatized in Netflix's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile.

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The final words uttered by Jamal Khashoggi after he was set upon at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul are captured in a transcript circulated to Turkish allies, ...

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

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Our emotions today are radically different from what 19th-century Americans felt. That's partly due to technology.

Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, two-player mobile games are one of the best ways to spend your free time in a fun way.

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At I/O 2019, Google showed off Live Caption, an Android Q feature that captions media on your phone. The feature only works on "select phones."

A new feature may be heading to Facebook. SOPA Images. Facebook has been working to combat issues like hate speech and disinformation on its platform.

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US president complied with Turkish leader's demands and took own advisers by surprise, accounts say.

Ask a Tech Editor 'How do I stop my phone constantly autocorrecting words?'

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the meetings of Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous take place online, which is more sensible than it sounds. Colloquy via web-based ...

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Google Assistant will soon be able to act as your real-life translator in 27 different languages. Google announced today that the voice assistant is getting a new ...

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We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the ...