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Smartphones can take on the roles of many other gadgets—cameras, calculators, e-readers, dictaphones, and all the rest—and they can also do double duty as webcams. In fact, this functionality is now built into both Android and iOS, so it’s easier than ever to use a phone as a webcam when it’s connected to your…

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Your iPhone has a built in feature that can decode laundry symbols.
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Click through for our coverage of the SEC Twitter/X hack, new Google TV features revealed at CES, Elon Musk’s alleged drug use, and more.

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A Boeing 737-990 (ER) operated by Alaska Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on August 24, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City.
A man whose phone fell out of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 last week told the LA Times he was sleeping when it happened and also lost his shoe and sock.
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Now that CES 2024 is done and gone. I think it’s safe to say that there was a lot of news out of Las Vegas this year. Thankfully, we’ve got all the important announcements listed below.

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The right-to-repair movement continues to gain steam as another big tech company shows its support for letting people fix their own broken devices.

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It would be nice to tune into the world without taking off my headphones. That’s the premise behind Auracast, a new broadcasting feature coming to Bluetooth. Not only can the headphones and earbuds you use now tap into the capability, but so can hearing aids. I got to try out the technology at CES 2024, and I can…

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The 2017 "batterygate" lawsuit was over Apple intentionally slowing down older phones like the iPhone 6s and 7 through software updates.
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China hacked into Apple’s Airdrop system on Monday allowing the government to identify the name, phone number, and email of the sender’s device, according to a post from a state-backed institution.