Consumer Tech



Tech tips to stay in touch, find help and be safe during a natural disaster, from getting the right emergency alerts to making your smartphone battery last in a power outage.

  • Perspective

Seven steps you can take to keep Facebook and Instagram from gathering information about what you do outside of their apps

  • Perspective

You pay for Facebook with your privacy. And it keeps raising the price.

As the pandemic evolves, cybercriminals capitalize on boredom and fear.

If you’re planning to do your mask shopping online, here are a few best practices you should keep in mind.

For those keeping count, this is the fifth such incident the wireless carrier has suffered in the past three years.

Companies can access personal emails, social media accounts and instant messages.

Apple debuted new features to scan photos and messages for explicit images of children. Here's how the features work, and why privacy advocates are concerned.

The company unveiled virtual reality workplace app Horizon Workrooms, a remote collaboration tool for Oculus Quest 2 headsets.

  • Danielle Abril
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  • Perspective

Samsung is trying to jump-start a folding phone craze. Here’s what you need to know.

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.

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