- Perspective
Samsung is trying to jump-start a folding phone craze. Here’s what you need to know.
Consumer Tech
Virtual interactions at work are making our language more impersonal and less precise.
- Review
There’s no be-all-end-all way to carry proof of vaccination on your phone. We make sense of how different options approach your privacy, ensure your security and try to spot counterfeits.
- Perspective
Your next smartphone might use one of Google's own chips. What does that mean for you?
We break down the most cost-effective way to watch the Summer Olympics — from streaming to social media.
TikTok is bringing big value to users, influencers and brands during the Olympics.
With so many payment app options, it’s hard to choose which to use. We look at fees, usability and privacy to recommend the best app for different needs.
For the first time, you can control how much "sensitive content" you see in your Instagram explore tab.
When you consent to share your address book with applications, you give companies access to your entire personal network, and they may sell that information.
- Analysis
The Facebook-owned messaging service will let users access their contacts, conversations and message histories across multiple PCs and smart displays, even when their phones are off or disconnected from mobile networks.
- Perspective
Service providers use their lock on neighborhoods — and a lack of rules — to take advantage of us. Here’s how to spot their tricks.
- Perspective
You can threaten to drop service — or cut some non-essential parts of your bill — if switching isn’t a real option
Instagram and TikTok are changing how they do video. But the updates may come with downsides for users.
5 things to know about Windows 11: A relocated Start menu, support for Android apps and more
- Review
A half-inch desktop computer shows how Apple’s obsession with thin design can work against us.
- Perspective
You have no control over what sort of data flows over Amazon’s new Sidewalk wireless network, which has been lying dormant in Echo smart speakers and Ring cameras... until now
- Perspective
An iPhone owner's Bill of Rights
- Perspective
Help Desk: Readers tell our tech columnist about shenanigans signing up for the Emergency Broadband Benefit, which is supposed to knock $50 off monthly bills.
- Perspective
A surprising number of Americans can get $50 each month from the new $3.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit. That includes tens of millions who lost work during the pandemic.
