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Remember this? “You hang up first.” “No, you hang up first.” Not quite as romantic when you fumble for the “End call” button on your iPhone, eh? As times change and our tech changes, so do the phrases we use.
What’s the most expensive phone number ever sold: A.) 222-2222, B.) 555-5555, C.) 666-6666 or D.) 8888-8888?
📶 Outsmarting the smart homes: Burglars in Edina, Minnesota, are using $40 Wi-Fi jammers to put security systems like Ring, Blink and Nest into a deep sleep. Yup, your high-tech home defenses could be useless. Pro tip: Set up signal-loss alerts in your system’s app. Better yet, get a real security system from SimpliSafe.
Is your phone’s browser a complete mess? Those tabs running in the background eat up valuable memory. There’s a quicker fix than closing tabs one at a time.
On iPhone:
On Android:
🏁 Speed Rx: Do this once a week to keep your phone’s performance top-notch.
Relationships are like smartphones. You look at your iPhone 8 and think, “It used to be a lot quicker to turn this thing on.”
On thin ice: By 2025, scientists say things could get dicey in Europe, North America and Asia. They predict freezing temps, weird weather, and a serious crunch on global food and water supplies. Time to bundle up and worry. Take a look at the story — it’s interesting.
What the … No, you’re not imagining chirpy sounds while scrolling Facebook. Meta confirmed it’s a bug, not a cool update, coming from the app. Here’s a quick fix: Settings & Privacy > Settings > Media > Sounds > toggle off In-App Sound.
🕵️♀️ Oops, they did it again: The fertility app Glow let slip details on 25 million peeps — names, selfies, the works. Kudos to security researcher Ovi Liber for catching the mess. Glow’s reply? Crickets. Ladies, remove the app now.
Goodbye passwords, hello you: Imagine your face, voice or gait being the key to everything — your work computer, phone login, you name it. Biometrics could replace old-school passwords and badges. But what about privacy? You can’t exactly get a new face or fingerprints if someone hacks in.
