The simple phone habit change that saves your screen time (and your sanity)

A friend of mine once told me, "I always keep my phone on silent mode… which doesn't matter because I compulsively look at it every three minutes anyway." He's not the only one. From becoming a text ...
PCMag

Practice Safe Browsing: 6 Ways to Protect Yourself While Watching Porn Online

I've been writing and editing stories for almost two decades that help people use technology and productivity techniques to ...
PCMag

PSA: This Browser Setting Could Be Giving Hackers Your Credit Card Info

Letting your browser store payment info may feel harmless, but it can expose you to malware, breaches, and data theft. I show ...
Oregonian

Dear Annie: I spend more time scrolling my phone than actually living my life, and I need it to stop

Dear Annie: I am starting to feel like my whole life is lived through a screen, and I am ashamed to admit how much control my phone seems to have over me. I am 42 and married, with two kids in middle ...
NJ.com

Dear Annie: I spend more time scrolling than actually living my life

DEAR ANNIE: I am starting to feel like my whole life is lived through a screen, and I am ashamed to admit how much control my phone seems to have over me. I am 42 and married, with two kids in middle ...
The New York Times

The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I.

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online. “We’re sending these kids out into the world, and we’re supposed to have ...
Android

Android's scrolling screenshots are getting a huge quality-of-life fix

Android is getting a fix for scrolling screenshots that will help users save on phone storage. In an upcoming update, Android will delete the original screenshot after the user takes a scrolling ...
InfoWorld

All I want for Christmas is a server-side JavaScript framework

Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, from Express to Next and all the rest. A grumpy Scrooge of a developer might ...
Engadget

How to make your lock screen background holographic in iOS 26

Apple continues to refine the look and feel of the iPhone with each major iOS release, and iOS 26 places more emphasis than ever on personalization. The one big change is the introduction of Spatial ...
PC World

Zoom isn’t as private as you think. Here’s how to lock it down

For one reason or another, we’ve all become very familiar with Zoom calls in recent years. Although we thankfully don’t need to use them quite as much as we used to, they’re still an important part of ...
IGN

Assassin's Creed Shadows DLC Includes a Prince of Persia-Style Side-Scrolling Sequence

Assassin's Creed Shadows DLC Claws of Awaji, which launches today, kicks off with a surprise side-scrolling intro sequence that's reminiscent of Ubisoft's classic Prince of Persia series, themed ...