There's a Wi-Fi trick floating around tech forums that promises to dramatically boost your wireless speeds. I tried it, and came away with more questions than answers—most of them wondering about why ...

When people think about home safety, they usually mean ways to make a home safer for seniors, such as removing tripping hazards, or ways to make it more kid-friendly. When they talk about threats, ...

Over the past 24 hours, more user reports claiming connectivity issues on Pixel phones have surfaced. This has become a regular occurrence, with new reports cropping up periodically, typically around ...

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Getting hacked once is scary enough. But getting hacked again after changing carriers, replacing cards and trying to recover your accounts can make it feel like the criminals are always one step ahead ...

A SIM swap or port-out scam can let criminals take over your phone number and intercept security codes for sensitive accounts. Getting hacked once is scary enough. But getting hacked again after ...

With the arrival of Android 17 on Pixel devices, many users now have access to even more features on their smartphones. Bubbles bring more multitasking to the device you carry in your pocket, and ...

The Russian government reportedly used the Cellebrite digital forensics platform to hack into the phone of a political activist, despite the Israeli company that makes the software previously ...

Brazil’s Integration and Regional Development Ministry and federal police are investigating an intrusion into the civil defense alert system that sent messages containing the word “misanthropy” to the ...

The stable Android 17 update landed on Google Pixel phones earlier this month, but it hasn’t gone off without a hitch, as some users report that the update is causing issues with Wi-Fi and game ...

A touchscreen bug causes random input freezes and "gesture inversion" — swiping up scrolls down — on Pixel 7 through Pixel 10 series devices after the Android 17 update. A 5G connectivity issue is ...