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Your phone is usually nearby when ten free minutes appear, whether you are waiting for a train or taking a quick break between device troubleshooting sessions. Instead of letting short-form feeds take over those gaps, you can use that downtime for quick, tech-focused micro-tasks.

Remote work erased the boundary between the office phone and the personal one. For many freelancers and distributed employees, the same mobile number now goes on invoices, LinkedIn profiles, client contracts and the school group chat. That works until a client calls at 11 p.m., the number leaks into a marketing database, or a change…

In recent weeks, Google has been automatically connecting Android users’ phone numbers to every Google account they are signed into on their devices—without requesting consent to do so. This means that if you are logged into personal, work, and disposable accounts on your Android phone, Google may have silently verified and linked your number with…

Android phones have been attaching their SIM’s phone number to every signed-in Google account on that device for more than a year. Google’s support documentation says that it verifies the number automatically during setup and adds it to every account on the phone, including work and secondary accounts. According to Google, verification enables features like…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX doesn’t just want to beam the internet from space. It wants to sell you a phone plan, and the companies that own the cell towers are already cashing in.

StepFun, a Chinese AI startup backed by Tencent, launched the STEPX Neo, a phone whose AI agent is built into the operating system itself instead of sitting in an app.

Our in‑house PC building expert, James, recently bought a new Samsung Galaxy smartphone on Amazon only to discover that he had unknowingly purchased an imported grey‑market device sold as a standard UK model. The situation left the phone without any manufacturer warranty and raised concerns that more UK buyers could be caught out by misleading…

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A sales rep closes a 30-minute call. The prospect laid out exactly what it would take to close the deal. The conversation contained everything needed to move forward. Within days, those details exist only in the rep’s memory, and memory degrades.

ByDan Noyes Thursday, September 3, 2026 5:38AM A frantic phone call from someone posing as security for Charles Schwab has lead an Oakland woman to lose her life savings.