📶 No bars: When your cell service is wonky, switch your phone to Airplane mode, wait a few seconds, then change it back. This will reconnect you to the nearest cell tower. Sweet!
📶 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.
What’s the most expensive phone number ever sold: A.) 222-2222, B.) 555-5555, C.) 666-6666 or D.) 8888-8888?
Speed up your phone
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:
- Open Safari. Tap and hold the icon that looks like two overlapping squares. From the pop-up, choose Close All Tabs. Done!
On Android:
- It’s even easier if you use Chrome. Just say, “Hey, Google, close all tabs.” If you’re using a different browser, there’s usually a menu in the top right corner. Look for the Close All Tabs option. That’s it!
🏁 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.