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In the era of privacy becoming almost nonexistent, we need to take every measure we can to reclaim some sense of security. Naturally, it’s not as convenient as it should be to protect yourself — we have traded convenience for privacy after all. But most operating systems have features, although buried beneath submenus, to make…

Buried in the settings of Googlebook is a “Glowbar Disco” app that activates the LEDs on your laptop constantly, instead of leaving it blank.

The humble clothespin (or clothes peg, if you live outside the US) has remained virtually unchanged for nearly two centuries. It is such a familiar fixture of daily life that most of us use it on complete autopilot. We squeeze the ends together, clamp the jaws directly over a shirt onto the line, and call…

Social engineering scams often succeed because they evade traditional security protections to trick you into doing something that puts you at risk. Now, Apple has created a new defense designed to protect iPhone and iPad users from these types of scams: Impersonation Risk Detection

People are inherently biased. Are machines running artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) biased too? A new Harvard University study reveals that LLMs are biased like people and make character assumptions on competence and trustworthiness based on facial features.

The storage space on your phone can quickly fill up, what with movies, music, photos, videos, games, and apps to consider, and you don’t want your handset to get close to running out of room — what if you need to download some movies for a flight or record a moment with the kids and…

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been putting all the iPhone 18 Pro (and 18 Pro Max) camera upgrades to work. While the variable aperture system has drawn plenty of attention — and rightfully so, given the natural depth of field it delivers — the bigger upgrade for me has been the introduction of…

Apple’s new iPhone Duo has a special option in its display settings that adds a narrow black border to the left side of the front screen.

Researchers at Group-IB found that the Android banking Trojan Gigabud can create a separate work profile on an infected phone and run a cloned banking app inside it. The attacker can then carry out fraudulent transactions in the new profile, potentially separating them from signs of malware detected elsewhere on the device.

Apple is giving the Apple TV Remote app experience a lot of love in iOS 27. That’s as good a sign as any that a new Apple TV 4K box is on the way.