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Your carrier isn’t a filing cabinet. AT&T keeps basic voicemail 14 days, T-Mobile says deleted messages “cannot be retrieved” and Verizon won’t take the blame even for ones you saved. Here’s how to turn a loved one’s message into a file you own forever, in a minute or so.
Hotel booking sites charge you based on where you live, what device you’re using and how many times you’ve searched. Here’s the 60-second trick that levels the playing field.
Americans spend nearly $4,000 a year dining out. Mystery dining lets you eat at restaurants for free in exchange for honest feedback. Here’s how to get started and which companies are legit.
I’ll never forget the time I was in Paris, sitting at a café, staring down at a menu I couldn’t read. Out came Google Translate on my phone, and suddenly I thought, Wow the future is here. Fast-forward to this fall, and that “future” looks downright primitive compared to what Apple and Google are about […]
Did Prince William and Prince Harry make up? Not even close. But thanks to Bing’s AI image generator, they practically skipped through a meadow hand in hand like it’s the finale of a very weird British rom-com reboot. No Daddy intervention, therapist or overpriced raspberry jam required. To get around Bing’s copyright controls, I didn’t […]
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