Android Apps
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Google Maps Gets Smarter with AI Suggestions & More Detailed Guidance
Google Maps introduces AI-powered search tools to discover things to do and more detailed navigation features for safer driving.
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New Android Features Guard Your Phone Whenever It’s Out of Your Hands
From lending your phone to kids to protecting against theft, Android's new features include app locking and AI-powered theft detection to keep your data safe.
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Use Live Video to Google Questions About the World Around You
Have you ever tried to describe a dance move or a skateboarding trick to find it on Google? Now, you can search using live video instead of words or an image.
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Texting Just Got Much Better Between iPhones and Android
With iOS 18, iPhones can now send RCS messages to Android phones so you can share high-quality videos and images and send messages over WiFi.
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Google's Circle to Search Expands to Music
Google wants to change how we identify music with an expansion of its Circle to Search feature instant music discovery tool.
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How to Hide Photos on Your Android Phone
If you have photos and videos on your phone that you don't want friends and family to stumble upon, you can secure them in a locked folder. Here's how.
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Timing Is Everything: How to Schedule Texts on Android
Learn how to use Android's scheduled texting feature. Send perfectly timed messages, manage your communication, and never forget important texts again.
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How to Liven Up Your Calls with Google's Audio Emojis
Google's new Audio Emoji feature adds a playful dimension to phone calls with six fun sound effects. Here's how to give them a try on your next call.
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How to Use Your Phone's Camera to Search
When you're on the go, you can get the info you need on that product, place, or landmark by snapping a picture with these apps.
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How to Download Android Phone Photos to Your Computer
You can easily download all of your photos or choose a select few to transfer from your Android phone to your computer. Here's how.
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Get These Apps Before Your Next Road Trip
Whether you're out of gas, looking for something to see along the way or want to steer clear of speed traps or traffic, there's an app to help.
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Does a Pop-up Mean Your Phone Has Been Hacked?
A pop-up claims you have a virus and need to call tech support. Or maybe you're just getting annoying pop-up ads. Has your phone been hacked? Here's how to tell.
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How to Remove Any Virus from an Android Phone in 4 Steps
How to remove malware on your Android phone and, if you are not sure if you have a virus, how to identify whether your phone has been infected.
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Tired of Junk Facebook Posts? This Setting Might Make a Difference
Say goodbye to annoying Facebook posts! This under-the-radar setting lets you filter out clickbait, fake news, disturbing images, and more.
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Facebook Rolling Out Better Controls for Its Video Player
Facebook's revamped video player gives you more full-screen options, consistent navigation controls, and a broader range of content recommendations.
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Android Finally Gets Its Own "Find My" Network
Track your lost devices like an iPhone user. Google's Find My Device network launches, allowing you to locate devices and compatible trackers.
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Facebook Messenger is Now Encrypted: Key Things You Need to Know
Default encryption is here – find out the benefits and limitations. Plus, learn how Secure Storage works to keep your conversations secure and accessible.
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Google Maps Introduces 3 Updates to Simplify Summer Travel Planning
Google Maps' updates simplify summer travel planning with curated lists, customizable itineraries, and insightful AI-powered recommendations.
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Is X Listening? Protect Your Calls From Privacy Leaks
X's new calling feature could expose your location and conversations. Learn the risks and how to safeguard your privacy with these simple steps.
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What's Draining Your Android Battery?
Don't let a dead battery ruin your day. Learn how to diagnose and fix battery drain on your Android phone with our simple solutions.
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A New Way to Google is Coming to Pixel 7 – Just Circle What You Want
Stop typing searches. Discover Circle to Search, a super-fast way to find info about whatever catches your eye. Available now on Pixel 7 and 8 and Galaxy S24.
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Quick Share is like AirDrop for Android and Windows
Learn how to use Quick Share (aka Nearby Share) to seamlessly transfer photos, videos, documents, and more between your Android phones and Windows PCs.
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Use Your Phone to Scan Documents Directly into Dropbox
Dropbox may be best known as a cloud-based file storage service, but the mobile app has a built-in feature that transforms your phone into a document scanner.
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What to Do When Your VPN Interferes with WiFi Calls
If you're experiencing dropped calls or are unable to make a call, your VPN may be interfering with WiFi calling. Discover how to restore your connection.
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Use Your Phone to Scan Documents Directly into Google Drive
Say goodbye to your standalone scanner. Discover the simple way to capture and save documents as PDFs in Google Drive with your iPhone or Android phone.
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Stop WhatsApp from Auto Saving Photos to Your Phone's Gallery
Prevent WhatsApp from automatically saving all photos and videos to your phone's photo gallery, wasting your storage and creating extra phone clutter.
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AT&T Rolls Out an Easy New Way to Tell if a Call is Spam
AT&T is rolling out a new type of Caller ID that clearly identifies verified callers on your phone display, helping you screen out spammers and scammers.
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Effortless Group Emailing: Mastering Gmail's Group Contact Feature
Avoid the hassle of typing individual addresses. Discover how to streamline group communications with our guide to creating and using email groups in Gmail.
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How to Find and Recover Recently Deleted Text Messages on Android
If you've deleted a text message within the last 30 days, there's a good chance that you can recover it. Here's how to do it for most text messaging apps.
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How to Track Santa's Journey Around the World
Santa's coming! Discover fun ways for kids to get updates on his preparations and track his journey on Christmas Eve with your phone, Alexa, and Google devices.
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How to Know if Your Android Phone Is Linked to Another Device
Here's how to check what devices are linked to your phone through your Google account and get rid of any extras to protect your privacy and security.
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The 5 Apps You Should Download from Google’s Best Android Apps of 2023
The top Android apps include everything from innovative educational tools to high-octane games. While all compelling options, these five are our favorites.
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Can't Shake That Song? How Google's Hum to Search Banishes Earworms
Need to get rid of an annoying, looping tune? We provide a practical solution to the common problem of earworms, freeing your mind for the next catchy tune.
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How to Reset Your Android Phone Without Losing Your Data
If your phone freezes or runs slowly, a reset often clears up your problems. First, though, you need to protect your data by backing it up. Here’s how.
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Delete Your Threads Profile Without Losing Your Instagram Account
Meta is finally letting you delete or deactivate your Threads profile without losing your Instagram account. Follow these steps to untangle your profiles.
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Stop Your Threads Posts from Being 'Suggested' on Facebook & Instagram
Meta's new privacy feature in Threads now enables users to prevent their posts from being "suggested" in other people's feeds on Facebook and Instagram.
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What Every Snapchat Symbol Means
There's no need to be confused by Snapchat's emoji indicators — we'll tell you the difference between a golden heart and a pink heart, plus the rest of Snapchat's symbols.
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How to Reverse Image Search Using Google
Sometimes an image does a better job at describing what you're searching for than words. Here's how to search using just an image on your phone and computer. -
Visit a LinkedIn Profile without Them Knowing Using Private Mode
Discover how to keep your LinkedIn browsing private. Learn the easy steps to switch between full visibility and anonymity while viewing profiles.
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Everything You Need to Get Started with Google Password Manager
Passwords you save when using Chrome can sync across all your devices. Here's how to use Google Password Manager on your computer, phone, and tablet.
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Lost & Found: How to Find Your Missing Android Phone
I explore the best techniques for finding your lost Android phone, including your phone's built-in tracker and third-party tracking devices.
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Permission Slip: The New App Streamlining Data Privacy Requests
Permission Slip by Consumer Reports offers you an incredibly quick-and-easy way to tell companies to stop selling your data and delete your account.
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Behind the Screens: Are Your Text Messages Safe from Hackers?
I explore the realities of text message hacking: who is vulnerable, how hacking can be accomplished, and what you can do to safeguard your messages.
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How to Move Text Messages to a New Android Phone
Here's how to move text messages from an old to a new Android phone and ensure you can recover all of your texts even if your phone is lost or stolen.
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16 Surprising Things You Can Do with Google Maps
Google Maps does so much more than get you from point A to point B. Here are our favorite features, along with some hidden tips and tricks.
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Safeguarding Your Instagram Friends: Tips to Prevent Account Cloning
Adjust these privacy settings, limit the information you share, and stay cautious with follower requests, to reduce the risk of becoming a cloning victim.
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How to use Notes on Instagram for Private Group Messaging
Notes give you a short-form, casual way to share status updates in short posts with a limited audience. Find out how you can use it to express yourself.
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How to Silence Unknown Callers on WhatsApp
While you can’t prevent scammers from calling you on WhatsApp, you can mute them by enabling the new Silence Unknown Callers feature. Follow our guide.
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Is Threads a Twitter Killer?
Threads is an app for public conversations and building communities of people with similar interests, but it's lacking some of Twitter's key features.
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How to Add Highlights to Your Instagram Profile
Instagram Highlights are curated collections of Stories you can use to showcase your passions on your profile. Here's how to get started creating them.
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How to Keep WhatsApp Conversations Private with Chat Lock
Chat Lock secures conversations with Face ID or your fingerprint, hides your chat list, and anonymizes chat notifications. Here's how to enable it.
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How to Turn Off Read Receipts in Messages on iPhone and Android
You can stop everyone or specific senders from knowing if you’ve read their messages by turning off the Read Receipts setting. We show you the steps.
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Snapchat Score: What is It and How to Check Yours
Did you know that Snapchat rates you? It's called your Snapchat Score, and every user has one. Find out how to view yours and control who can see it.
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Get Live Captions for Facebook, Instagram, and Other Videos on Android
The Live Caption feature generates real-time subtitles for videos on most Android apps, so you can follow along even when you can't hear the sound.
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How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on Your Android Phone
If you delete a text message, you have a good chance of recovering it if you act quickly. Here's our guide for Google Messages and Samsung Messages.
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How to Protect Your Accounts with Two-Factor Authentication
Two-factor authentication (2FA) prevents hackers from gaining access to your accounts even if they have your password. Here are the best practices for using 2FA.
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How to Find Your Phone
Whether your phone is missing or you've misplaced it with the ringer off, there are easy ways to find your iPhone or Android phone.
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Use These 5 Tips to Shop More Effectively Using Google
Here are the 5 tools in Google Search and Shopping that make it easy to find exactly what you want for the best price and buy it from a trusted merchant.
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Free Personal Safety Apps that Can Call For Help
These free personal safety apps can alert others that you need help, even if you're unable to send an SOS yourself.
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Keep Your Facebook Messages Private with Secret Conversations
With Facebook’s Secret Conversations enabled, your messages are encrypted end-to-end, so no one can read them. But there are loopholes.
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How to Record Your Android Phone Screen
In Android 11 and higher, you’ll find a basic screen-recording tool built-in that can capture your phone’s video and audio, as well as sound from the mic.
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What You Need to Know About the Gmail Redesign
Gmail now integrates Chat for messaging and Meet for video conferencing. Here’s how to navigate the redesign and go back to the old view if it’s not for you.
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How to Make Text Larger on Your Phone, Tablet and Computer
Here’s how you can make your smartphone and laptop screens more readable without resorting to reading glasses.
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New Facebook Feeds Tab Puts You in Control of What You See
If you don't like Facebook telling you what to read, you'll love the new Feeds tab that shows chronological posts from your friends, Pages, and groups.
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12 Tips for Faster Browsing with Google Chrome
Google keeps making browsing more efficient. So even if you've been using Chrome for years, check out our 12 tips to see what you may be missing.
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10 Tips to Get More out of WhatsApp
While you might have been using WhatsApp for years, there are ten hidden features that you should be using to save time and enhance your privacy.
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Google Image Search Gets Even Better with Multisearch
Google image search now lets you use text to refine your search to give you better search results, as well as find related style and color variations.
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The Easiest Way to Send Links between Your Phone and Computer
There’s a simple way to send links directly between your own phone and computer browsers without resorting to emailing or texting yourself.
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You Can Now Install Android Apps on Your Windows 11 PC
All Windows 11 computers can run hundreds of Android apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore and touchscreen laptops operate like Android tablets.
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How to Forward a Text Message on Android Phones
Want to forward a text message to someone else? Here are the simple steps to forward a text in Google Messages and phone manufacturer messaging apps.
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How to Create Ringtones for Android Phones
Easily set your favorite song as your ringtone, edit or customize sound files to make custom ringtones, and assign unique ringtones to important people.
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4 Apps That Automate Annoying Everyday Tasks
These apps will help you find the cheapest parking with a free space, stop the flow of junk mail, block spam callers from leaving voicemail, and more.
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How to Connect Your Phone to Your TV
After testing the solutions, we found the best ways to connect for the most popular models of TVs and phones.
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How to Make Live Wallpaper for Your Android Phone
Live wallpapers, which animate your lock screen and home screen, can be easily created from your own still images and videos. Here's how to make them. -
How to Unsubscribe from an App
Here’s how to find your subscription status and stop paying for app subscriptions on your Android or Apple device.
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12 Free Productivity Apps that Will Save You Time
These 12 free apps will help you work more effectively by helping you stay focused, consolidating important information, and automating routine tasks.
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Miiskin Fights Cancer by Helping You Monitor Skin Changes
Miiskin makes it simple to monitor your skin for moles and other skin changes that could be signs of cancer, even on hard-to-examine areas like your back.
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The Best Apps of 2020
From streaming services to the easiest workout routines ever, the year's best apps help us stay healthy and entertained even when we're stuck at home.
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Google's Pixel 4a Has High-End Android Features at a Budget Price
While the Pixel 4a isn't the only smartphone with a moderate $349 price tag, it has impressive features you usually can't get without paying a lot more.
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How to Figure Out Who Hacked Your Phone
The best way to narrow down the field of suspects is to determine exactly how your phone is being compromised. Here are 9 steps to figuring out who hacked your phone.
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Bulk Delete Facebook Posts with This New Privacy Tool
With the new Manage Activity feature, you can easily filter you old Facebook posts and delete or achive them to pull your private information out of the public eye.
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The Best News Aggregators
Our top picks for news aggregators make it easier to stay on top of our favorite newspapers, blogs, magazines, and other news sources.
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New Medical ID Sharing Lets Your iPhone Send Health Data to Emergency Services
A new feature in iOS 13.5 lets your phone send key medical data to emergency services when you call 911 — it could help save your life.
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The Best Games to Play Online With Friends
Our top picks include online games you can play over video chat, collaborative games kids (and adults) can play together, and casual games for the whole family.
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NordVPN Doubles Speeds with New WireGuard-Based VPN Protocol
NordVPN's new NordLynx VPN protocol provides service that's up to twice as fast while maintaining the industry gold standard of "no-logs" service.
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How to Sign an Electronic Document
Tired of printing, signing and then scanning documents? Here are the simple steps to signing PDF and Word documents on your phone and computer.
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How to Create an Electronic Signature
Here are the simple steps to create an electronic signature so you can easily add it to PDF, Word and other documents.
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Coronavirus Robocall Phone Scams on the Rise
Scammers are calling people to offer testing for coronavirus, protective gear, and health insurance. Don't be fooled. Here's how to avoid these scams.
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Google Cracks Down on Unnecessary Location Sharing
Keeping your private data private is a challenge, but soon Android will offer new tools to lock down access to your location and other sensitive data.
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5 Ways You’re Using Your Phone Wrong
A few quick adjustments in how you use your phone can improve the experience, saving you time and effort.
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Apps for Turning New Year's Resolutions Into Reality
These apps will help you stick with your New Year's resolutions to lose weight, get fit, meditate, save money and eat healthy.
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How to Block Caller ID on Your Phone
Easy steps to block your number from caller ID on your iPhone, Android phone or home phone permanently or on a call by call basis.
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The Best Android Apps & Games of 2019
Google's best apps of the year highlight how very useful your Android phone can be, from fitness to productivity. See which apps you're missing.
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5 Steps to Clean Up Your Smartphone Address Book
Is your smartphone address book filled with outdated and duplicate contacts? Follow these 5 simple steps to clean up your contact list.
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7 Products That Show How VR and AR Are the Future of Tech
Virtual reality and augmented reality are already changing how we travel, learn, shop and more. Here's how.
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How to Record a Phone Call
With a little pre-planning, recording a call can be as easy as pressing a button. We show you how to record calls on your Android phone, iPhone, landline and computer.
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Emergency Tech Essentials for Your Home
Be prepared to ride out the next storm with these gadgets, even if you have no power.
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Popular Face Aging App Is Grabbing the Rights to Your Photos
When you upload a photo to the popular face aging FaceApp app, you're giving the company rights to use that photo for commercial and other purposes.
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Call Control App for Android Prevents Robocalls from Going to Voicemail
The Call Control app for Android is the first I’ve tested that silently blocks spam calls/robocalls and prevents them from going into your voicemail.
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Android versus iPhone: Which is Better?
Thinking of switching from iPhone to Android phone or Android phone to iPhone? We take you through the key features and tell you which platform is better.