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Standing in line at the pizza place, you’ve got a couple of minutes to kill, so you stare down at your phone, and fire up. Rather than browsing through a long list of inane tweets or matching jewel colors up against each other, you can actually be using that time productively.

Lock your doors.

A glittering barred spiral galaxy, Jupiter's storms, and Cassini's long-awaited Grande Finale dive this week in space.

In light of the latest Bluetooth-related security meltdown, a friendly PSA.

Mobile payments are the future, so we’re told. Apple, Google, and Android all want you surviving on nothing but their products—your financial data safely stored on an NFC chip inside. While not every store in the US supports it, most of them do. Same with the banks. We’ve run though everything, from which banks and stores support smartphone pay to which app to use. So read on so you can stop reaching for your wallet every time you want a coffee.

Just yesterday, WhatsApp celebrated yet another milestone: one billion daily active users. But what exactly makes this messaging app so great?

Firstly, you should report the theft to the police, giving them the handset's IMEI number.

A few things stand out about [Vijay]'s braille keypad for smartphones. One is how ergonomic the plans for the final result are, sitting on the back of the smartphone such that you hold the phone much ...

Manufacturing is dirty, dull, and outmoded. It’s a slow-moving industry stuck in the past as new technologies out of Silicon Valley threaten to upend it. Stereotypes are fun, and misleading. Let’s not forget manufacturing is the industry that made the modern age. While many were musing about robots in science fiction, manufacturers were putting them …

Secret voice commands could be hidden inside online videos to hack your smartphone through its voice recognition.

2017 marks the iPhone’s 10th anniversary, and the rumors are that Apple will be releasing three new models to celebrate: two handsets with incremental improvements, and a third, radically...

Sensors in phones running both iOS and Android reveal all kinds of sensitive info.

The smartphone is ubiquitous, addictive and transformative