A laptop caught fire midair last month, the 56th battery incident on a plane this year. Three rules keep your gadgets from grounding a flight, friend, and rule number one starts with your checked bag.
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Comcast made Wi-Fi motion sensing a headline feature on millions of Xfinity gateways. It reads the ripples your body makes in the signal, through walls, no camera. Here’s the five-minute check, friend.
Flock’s cameras scan more than 20 billion license plates a month, and they’ve found kidnapped kids and closed murder cases. They’ve also tracked police officers’ ex-girlfriends, shown up in a Virginia woman’s front yard uninvited and nearly ended up on 350,000 Ubers. Now, 30-plus cities have pulled the plug, the company is scrambling to add rules and its own CEO reportedly keeps his plates out of the system. Here’s the whole story, plus the free map that shows every camera near you.
Krisp strips barking dogs, traffic and coffee shop noise out of your calls in real time, using AI that runs entirely on your device. Works with Zoom, Teams, Meet and Slack. Free tier covers about an hour of noise-free calls a day.
Companies are quietly bricking gadgets you already paid for or locking the features behind a subscription. Here’s how to spot the problem and how to buy around it.
If you keep “running into” the same person or your gut says you’re being followed, you might be carrying a $30 tracker without knowing it. Here’s how to find it, what your phone misses and what to do before you touch it.
A security researcher proved every GPS satellite doubles as a Cold War-style “numbers station,” beaming encrypted Pentagon code to every phone, car and smartwatch on Earth.
That CPAP machine? It tells your insurance company whether you used it enough. And it’s not the only device in your house keeping score. Here’s what’s phoning home while you sleep and what you can do about it.
Those little cameras on the poles in your neighborhood quietly record every car that passes, then feed one giant searchable map. You never agreed to it, and the company behind them started flying drones that read your plate from 2,000 feet. Here’s what’s really happening.
Two listeners thought they had backups. They didn’t. Here’s the difference that could save your photos, files and five years of memories.
Most people don’t know Amazon built its own Temu. It’s called Amazon Haul. The hidden gems of $5-$10 are legit, backed by real Amazon protection.
You pay for 100 Mbps internet but only get 23 Mbps. Your bill includes “premium Wi-Fi” that’s just a rental fee for equipment you could own. Internet companies bank on you never checking.
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A wire-free robotic mower, a sprinkler that skips rain days automatically and a bird feeder with a camera that knows its birds. Spring just got smarter.
Every time you walk into a grocery store, a big box retailer or a pharmacy, AI-powered cameras track how you move, where you linger and what you almost bought. Here’s what they know.
You land at JFK after a fabulous two-week trip seeing all of the crowned heads of Europe. You’re tired, jet-lagged and happy to be home. A customs officer pulls you aside, asks for your phone and starts scrolling through your photos, your texts, your emails. No warrant. No stated reason. No suspicion of any crime. […]
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Right now, over a billion phones are running without security updates, and hackers know it. Your phone is probably fine. But you should check. Takes 30 seconds.
Seven years of photos. Her son’s first steps. His first day of kindergarten. Gone. Here’s the difference between sync and backup, and why it matters more than you think.
