Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has counselled his departmental secretary Mike Pezzullo over concerns he intimidated a crossbench senator in a phone call ...

The jury is still out on Elon Musk, as it is for all of us. But it's likely he will one day be remembered as the greatest creative innovator and entrepreneur of our time ...

In the new film Sometimes Always Never, the thing that drives the plot – its conflict, the characters' search for meaning, their eventual reconciliation – is a game ...

The LG V50 ThinQ is the first 5G smartphone available from Sprint. This gorgeous piece of hardware ticks off all the checkmarks, but is 5G ready?

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Weekend Edition puzzlemaster Will Shortz plays a word game this week with KCRW listener Robert Wemischner of Los ...

We're innodated with high-performance phone SoCs every year, but would your money be better spent on an aging flagship or a new mid-range phone?

In the small town of Otsuchi in northern Japan, 2,000 residents were lost in the tsunami in 2011. One resident, who had already been grieving his cousin before ...

Smartphone addiction does not seem like a questionable thing to believe in. It exists. Surely it does, doesn't it?

The New Yorker unleashed a 10000-word story about the exclusivity of Augusta National on Friday. And the author did not hold back.

I recently saw a funny post online. It was a chalkboard in a coffee shop with the following words “We don't have Wi-Fi. Talk to each other. Pretend it's 1995.

TODAY'S WORD — PYROPHOBIA (PYROPHOBIA: pye-ruh-FO-bee-uh: Abnormal fear of fire.) Average mark 22 words. Time limit 35 minutes. Can you find 31 or ...

The Motorola Razr hit the market in the summer of 2004, and immediately it was a very big deal. This was the first cellphone whose fashionability was its main ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — How does $1,000 sound? It could be yours if you're willing to swap your smartphone with a flip phone for a week. Internet *service* ...

We are entering an age in which you can no longer trust your ears or eyes. Bots, trolls and fake news merchants have demolished the idea that you can believe ...

As a child, Red was chatty and full of life - but only at home. When she left the house, everything changed.

The serene and accessible pattern matching game is the zen cousin of the New York Times crossword puzzle.

Google has announced that Google Drive and Google Photos will be separating in July. Google says, “the connection between these services is confusing,” so ...

Daniel A. Gross writes about what happened after he was offered ten thousand dollars as part of a new—and secretive—award for young writers.

To mark this Father's Day, we asked dads to describe a moment when they truly felt like a father, in 500 words or fewer. Here are some of our favorite essays.

Police who stopped a speeding driver in Sydney's west on Sunday night were shocked to find he was driving with his phone strapped to the steering wheel, ...

On Tuesday morning, Barbara Petersen — president of the First Amendment Foundation, a Florida nonprofit that advocates for open government — got a text ...

One effective way to correct unhealthy social-media habits is to “fast” for a few weeks and then come back with strict limits on use.

My Dad is a cop. He was nearly killed when I was 9-years-old. My story begins the night we received the phone call. It is a tale worth telling.

I am a lucky lady. I have a lulu (which literally means outstanding) of a dad and I am married to a man who chose to be a great dad.

She thought her purpose was to become one of the fastest runners in the country. But living with incurable cancer, Gabe realized her role in the sport was bigger ...

The home affairs secretary is seen as a Dutton loyalist; he's also been a Labor staffer and is considered a fiercely independent mandarin. So who's the real ...

We've had the album since 1948. We've had the visual album since 2013. And now, thanks to creative producer Colin Nightingale, sound designer/creative ...

The doctor who helped save the life of a 4-year-old child critically wounded in the mosque shootings, says March 15 started as "just another day in the office".

The Spanish word for “slaughter” is how Fulmencio Eladio describes what unfolded in his Guatemalan village just over one year ago. Sitting in his family's small ...

What if scammers could learn your password not from a massive cyberattack or taking control of your device, but from listening in as you type?

Tracy Reeve, the Portland city attorney, has returned a professionalism award to the Multnomah Bar Association after one of her deputies made a racist remark ...

Jim plays a lightning round of frequently made errors.

The experience we know as password hell could be radically changed for the better within the next year and a half to three years. Struggling to come up with ...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Everyone has that magical place, the spot their eyes need to see or their foot needs to step just once before they take in their last ...

Apple has dramatically enhanced the Voice Control feature it debuted years ago with the iPhone 3GS, bringing offline OS-wide control to most of its devices.

Five years ago this month, Danisch Farooqi dropped off his daughter, Aaliya, at her mother's house in the German port city of Hamburg. He remembers walking ...

When Boris Johnson headed for Edinburgh in 2004 there was even then speculation about his political ambitions and his fitness for the highest…

The launch of the Google Pixel usually happens in October or November and year 2019 is not going to be an exception. The Pixel 4 will launch in India, and in ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — One company is asking one smartphone addict to take a break from their device and get back to the times of old by “downgrading” to a ...

US fans include Oprah and Michelle Obama. Expect an 'inspirational' experience, low lights, tears – and amethyst crystals.

This could be the most valuable piece of information you learn all year, and I'm honoured to be the one to share it with you.

It's nearly impossible to discern when an infant's babbling turns into a fully formed word.

Media Day at the College World Series in Omaha features all four coaches on a single side of a bracket speaking at the same news conference, and conversing ...

What do your smartphone and the world's most advanced fighter jet have in common? The Trump administration can't protect them from hackers.

A couple of weeks ago I was part of an investigating team into Cussgate, a WhatsApp video chat involving my ten-year-old son and a group of his classmates.

The world that my dad inhabited—the world of lawyers, government, and politics—was always a mystery to me growing up. As he nears retirement age, I've ...

I spend a disproportionate amount of my life stressed out of my mind. And I'm not alone. According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans, in particular, are the most ...

The founder of Telstra PhoneWords has led a consortium to acquire Telstra's 85 percent stake in the company, which sells personalised 1...

You can block a phone number on your iPhone in just four quick taps. Unblocking a number is equally easy, so you can always change your mind later.

Union drives at media organizations have been a source of rare good news for the labor movement.

There's a surprising revolution under way at San Francisco County Jail this week. On Wednesday, District Attorney George Gascón announced he was ...

And you thought your parents were strict. In 16th century England, the same courts that tried murderers were also tasked with getting to the bottom of cheese ...

Ultimately, three words led to the downfall of hands-free driving legislation that lawmakers hoped would finally allow police to crack down on widespread use of ...

A sheriff's deputy who was shot in the head in an apparently unprovoked attack at an Alhambra fast-food eatery was on life support Wednesday, while a Utah ...

Before you even bring it up, no I'm not hating on LeSean McCoy because he spoiled Avengers: Endgame.Repeatedly over this offseason, the Buffalo Bills have ...

He won Australia's richest prize for literature, but Behrouz Boochani wasn't there to accept it. He was on Manus Island, more than 2000 days after he arrived on ...

What are the key security challenges facing intelligent buildings? ESET's Tony Anscombe explained them very clearly in a recent conference talk.

Zhuhai-based Meizu has had a relatively quiet 2018 compared to its Chinese peers, but it's starting 2019 aiming to grab headlines with a radical concept phone.

As goofy as some of your smartphone keyboard's predictions are, at least it tries to not make you look bad.

AutoCorrect automatically fixes typos, which is convenient—but it thinks swears are typos. Your iPhone or iPad likes changing swear words into similar, incorrect ...

A small, portable gadget has transformed the lives of people who are both deaf and blind by translating phone screens into braille.

The NFL star and agency GS&P want to help turn meals into phone-free zones.

Mobile World Congress debuted some pretty weird phones. We saw phones that are wearable, foldable, and have 5 cameras. Why so many weird concepts?

You can set up Google Assistant and "OK Google," the voice command behind it, on an iPhone or Android phone. Here's how to do it on both.

Popular apps such as TrueCaller or GetContact advertise the ability to see who is really calling you, even if you do not know the number, and alert the app user ...

Former President George H.W. Bush spoke his final words in a phone call with his son, former President George W. Bush, a source familiar with Bush's final ...

Cory Monteith final words: Five years on from the Glee star's death, his mother has revealed the phone call she received from his girlfriend Lea Michele.

If you tried to text Ashton Kutcher today, you were prompted to sign up for a new messaging *service* called Community.

A vulnerability in Facebook's WhatsApp messaging app made it possible for attackers to spread surveillance software to mobile devices through a phone call.

Google "meditation" and click on the images. The search results yield photos of women in fitted tank tops and lycra pants sitting near bodies of water with the sun ...

Gmail's Smart Compose feature has been around on desktop and on Google Pixel 3 handsets since last October. it's now becoming available on more devices.

There's a serious bug in Apple's FaceTime video calling platform that has been bouncing around some corners of social media today, and that 9to5Mac just ...

SARGEANT Ron Helus was on the phone to his wife when reports of a shooting first came through.

Steve Wozniak said he would like a folding phone himself.

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A mystery plagues two iOS users, but others must be affected?

Telstra is selling its stake in its Phonewords business to a consortium led by the company's founder Gavin Scholes and Aura Funds Management.

Three years ago, on the way to my apartment in Brooklyn to cook dinner for myself and a friend, we stopped into a grocery store that offered build-your-own ...

Longtime Ald. Edward Burke has spent decades at the pinnacle of the city's power structure, but in the end, he may have buried himself with his own words.

A senior track star at the University of Utah was killed by a registered sex offender with whom she had a previous relationship, police and university officials said.

Millions of people routinely say “hey” to voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, even though the experience can be frustratingly glitchy. On Tuesday, Google ...

How Google, Apple, and Facebook turned "digital wellness" into a Goopified trend that gives them a new way to market themselves.

Why does iPhone autocorrect still make so many mistakes? We spoke with Ken Kocienda, who helped create autocorrect for Apple, to find out why.

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More people in the world own Huawei phones over iPhones, despite the fact that you probably won't find many Huawei phones in the US.

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Our emotions today are radically different from what 19th-century Americans felt. That's partly due to technology.

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A new feature may be heading to Facebook. SOPA Images. Facebook has been working to combat issues like hate speech and disinformation on its platform.

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