Your Android phone can play some Steam games. Here’s how
Your phone can play games. You already know this if you’ve perused an app store in the last 15 years, or seen the absolute dregs of YouTube advertising. But did you know that your phone…
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Have an old Android phone sitting around? Use it to boost your home Wi-Fi
Before you throw away (or recycle) that old Android phone, you may be able to make use of it as a Wi-Fi extender for your home network. Android phones can connect to your home Wi-Fi…
Three ways the OS 27 betas give away Apple’s folding phone secret
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Apple’s OS 27 betas contain three key indicators of a folding iPhone Ultra, including iOS code references to ‘foldState’ and ‘angleDegrees’ variables. The new…
Windows now lets you lock your PC from your phone
Microsoft has added a new feature to the Smartphone Link (Link to Windows) app that lets you lock your Windows PC remotely from your phone. This is one of those features that sounds small but…
Ayaneo’s Pocket Play mashes a gaming handheld with a sliding phone
Modern smartphones are lighter, thinner, and faster than ever, but one thing they aren’t is stylish. I know because I’ve been looking for something that stands out from the sea of oblong rectangles in every…
Can’t afford a laptop? Acer has a screen/keyboard hack for your phone
It looks like the new floor for laptop prices will be around 700 dollars. And that isn’t going to get you a whole lot of laptop, especially if you want memory for RAM-hungry browser tabs.…
A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses
Prison calling service Pay Tel has secured a publicly exposed cloud server storing hundreds of thousands of driver’s licenses and other sensitive information about people who used its services, according to a cybersecurity firm that…
Upcoming iPhone feature could kick in the moment your phone is swiped
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Apple is developing an anti-snatching security feature for iPhones that automatically locks devices when theft is detected. The feature uses the iPhone’s accelerometer and…
These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware
Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified roughly 90 users — many of them journalists and civil society members across Europe…
Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses
Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it was exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers, and order identifiers to the open internet. Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told…