A few months ago, I was working from a busy coffee shop in Berlin when my Pixel 8 flashed a warning about an unsecured Wi-Fi network. I’d been answering emails, checking bank balances, and streaming ...

Streaming and video calls consume significant amounts of data, and other apps may continue to use data in the background. Even if you have one of the best value data plans, keeping an eye on your data ...

There are several ways to connect your Android phone with your PC, and some work better than others. For example, some methods allow you to read and respond to notifications but don't let you open or ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to lock your Windows 11 PC remotely using an Android phone. Microsoft is rolling out a new update to the Link to Windows app that now includes the ability to remotely ...

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How to Make Any Video Sound Your Ringtone on iPhone To make the sound from a video into a ringtone, you’ll have to take a couple of steps. First, you’ll need to convert the video into an MP3 file by ...

We've all been there — you're trying to load a webpage, stream a video, or open an app on your Android phone, and everything just crawls. Slow internet on your phone impacts your downloads and uploads ...

Imagine unlocking your Android phone without tapping in a PIN or scanning your fingerprint—just because your smartwatch is nearby. A new feature spotted in development could make that a reality, ...

Google has sabotaged its phones’ open-source technology in order to stamp out its competitors and intensify surveillance of its customers. I remember getting my first Android phone and feeling a sense ...