In the chaotic modern life reality, we increasingly want an accurate way to determine where a loved one is in real time. Situations vary greatly. A child may be late for school. An elderly parent may ...

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The process is fundamentally unchanged, with users now able to add these additional data types so that Google can "keep an eye out" for their appearance in search results. If you've already signed up ...

Tens of thousands of human-made objects orbiting the Earth could pose a risk to life, infrastructure and the environment when they fall through the atmosphere. Typically the space debris is tracked ...

Federal immigration officers fanning out across Minnesota and other parts of the country are newly equipped with an array of state-of-the-art surveillance technologies, thanks to a bill passed last ...

To address how Phone by Google recently gained a landscape calling screen, the dialer app is now offering a setting to “Keep portrait mode on calls.” Update 1/20/26: This setting is back as of beta ...

Turning your phone into a mobile hotspot by sharing its data connection is an undeniably useful feature, but it does come with certain drawbacks when compared to using a dedicated mobile router. I ...

Many popular apps collect far more personal data than they need to work. These 20 apps quietly gather your photos, location, ...

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Durability has always been an Achilles heel for folding smartphones. When the original Samsung Galaxy Fold launched in 2019, its futuristic form factor was hampered by an incredibly fragile display.

From Chicago to Minneapolis, federal immigration agents deployed on Trump administration crackdowns have relied on an unlikely tool in the heat of tense operations — cellphone cameras. That practice ...