Sydney schoolboy Max Meyer told rescuers we need some help in a phone call just minutes before he was swept away in an avalanche.

It describes a social condition that psychologists warn is increasingly common in our modern world, but chances are you have never heard of it. Yet this new ...

Everywhere you look, it seems that some celebrity's infidelity is being exposed to the masses. No matter what a couple's resources might be, monogamy and ...

A public gathering in Israel to pressure the Australian government to quickly return the body of Arab-Israeli woman Aiia Maasarwe is scheduled to begin late ...

Microsoft says anyone using its smartphone platform, Windows 10 Mobile, should switch to Android or iPhone.

A Today viewer has spoken of her distress after she claims technical difficulties saw her miss out on the show's $40000 cash giveaway.

Dolby has been quietly testing a new mobile app for recording and cleaning up audio under the codename "234." The app cancels background noise, and then ...

"Nomophobia" has been named as Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2018. While the word itself might sound unfamiliar, the phenomenon it describes is one we ...

When the word "God" suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the end of a text exchange, columnist Jerry Davich puzzled over how it happened and what it ...

OSSIAN, IND. (WPTA 21) – The father and mother of 18-month-old Kamryn Price, who police say was beaten to death last week spoke exclusively with ABC 21's ...

An accidental encounter with President Trump, from a brasserie in Paris.

A surge of audio services using AI are giving voice a boost in customer *service*, but when it comes to communications in the age of mobile, messaging continues ...

'The Allusionist' and 'Wordy Wordpecker' invite you to take a closer look at everyday words.

Aiia Maasarwe's Tuesday night started with a meet-up to practise English in the park and a comedy show with friends. Her life ended shortly after midnight in ...

When you change the way you feel inside, the performer the audience sees will change.

Samsung's first foldable smartphone is confirmed to launch in the first half of the year, and the handset won't have that many rivals, as other vendors are yet to ...

HMD Global, a Finnish startup that designs and builds Nokia Android smartphones, wants to put the Nokia brand name back “where it belongs.” It helps that it's ...

Dressed in dhoti and a shirt, with a cotton bag dangling from his shoulders and holy ash smeared across his forehead, 40-year-old Dhanapalan (*name ...

You may soon have to hang-up the phone if you're driving. A bill proposed in legislature would ban all hand-held devices on Tennessee roads.

"Tom was a great friend and as our district's commissioner was always willing to listen and help any way he could," Darlene Saumer wrote me in a recent email ...

Samsung will unveil at least four distinct Galaxy S10 versions soon, including three 4G models and a 5G phone. All of them will share the same Infinity-O ...

Brisbane Heat star Brendon McCullum has taken aim at Sydney Thunder general manager and former NZ captain Lee Germon over the Thunder's request to be ...

Zanco's Smart Pen isn't actually a pen, it's barely a phone (and not very smart), and the company behind it sounds like an outfit that supplies Wile E. Coyote with ...

In an interview with Digital Trends, Director of Product Strategy and Marketing at Samsung confirmed that the foldable phone will launch in the first half of 20.

Covington Catholic High School has said that students could be expelled after a video went viral, showing an incident where students who were in Washington ...

New York's Anson Calder offers a luxury minimalist iPhone case in calfskin leather.

CNBC Make-It gathered a list of the top-rated self-improvement apps by Apple and Google. Whether you're looking to get fit or learn a new skill in the new year, ...

China's envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa of possible repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei Technologies from supplying equipment to ...

The sister of slain Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe has revealed details of the chilling final phone call they shared moments before she was allegedly raped and ...

The company that makes your Android phone is doing Android memory management wrong. Because the best practices and in some cases actual requirements ...

Imagine that 2019 is the year when you break through whatever barriers are keeping you from being the best version of yourself. Likely though, it will mean you ...

Devin Haney, Teofimo Lopez Face To Face Video - SHOWTIME PPV will present a welterweight world championship showdown between two of boxing's ...

'I know this is happening. No one can tell me otherwise. I've experienced it and so have friends.

Samsung announced it would be debuting its next-generation Galaxy S10 and S10+ smartphones February 20, on Thursday with a teaser video. But it left out ...

Travel as a cancer survivor? Travel choices can be healthy, if a bit nerve-wracking, for a cancer survivor. It is good to focus outward rather than inward when you ...

A television news anchor in St. Louis apologized after he uttered a racial slur in place of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last name during a Friday morning ...

What's uppppp TechNaversss! NewBytes is back and it's gonna be our first 2019 edition! It's a bit late but we had a slow startup and now we are pickin.

Impatient creative type, hopeless at DIY, recently separated from wife of 30 years and prostate of twice that time span, now emerging from brief encounter with ...

The year 2018 has come to an end and amongst the hundreds of words added to all the popular dictionaries, a few stand out, including terms such as 'toxic', ...

In this day and age, a mobile phone is one of the most valuable items a person has. Read more at stomp.straitstimes.com.

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro and puzzle master Will Shortz play a word game with Tova Tenenbaum of Philadelphia.

The debut EP from the Sudan-born, Twin Cities-based singer, poet, and activist reveals an artist with a warm, sophisticated sound and captivating presence on ...

A meteorologist for a television station in Rochester was fired Sunday after he uttered a racial slur on air while describing a city park named after the Rev.

Angelle Sampey shocked the NHRA Drag Racing world when she joined the Vance & Hines Harley Davidson Pro Stock Motorcycle team. Here's the story, in her ...

John Coughlin, a two-time U.S. pairs champion recently suspended from figure skating, died by suicide in Kansas City, Mo. He was 33.

I have a friend who took kindergarten prep very seriously. When her son began getting homework in preschool (“homework” and “preschool” being two words ...

With very little warning, three days after Christmas, Netflix dropped a new episode of Black Mirror — or a Black Mirror film, if you want to look at it that way.

WATCH: Mayor Naheed Nenshi is taking issue with UCP Leader Jason Kenney's comments on Facebook about the Green Line, saying if Kenney wants to know ...

Xiaomi's Redmi 6 Pro is considered to be one of the best budget phones in the market right now. Read our review of the Redmi 6 Pro to find out more.

Jan. 10. To the editor: I'd like to offer my thanks to the council members who presented and supported ordinance 6093 meant to protect equal rights in matters of ...

For years, Ron Santo knew only anguish on Hall of Fame announcement days; it finally came a year after he died.

Why died Salem City Council fire its city manager, Kevin Boggess. That's a question on the minds of some residents, who sound frustrated that they not getting ...

Just a quick reminder here, but if you are on Verizon, there is a good chance you now have access to a free Apple Music subscription. Yesterday, Verizon added ...

E&T staff pick the news from the past week that caught their eye and reflect on what these latest developments in engineering and technology mean to them.

The conservative lawmaker talks to Trump more than the president does with many senior aides, sometimes spending an hour-plus on the phone or speaking ...

Here's how I got to bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery.

Bedford Hills, n.y. — The sound of Pamela Smart arrives before she does.Down the prison hallway it comes. Boot heels clattering on floor tiles. Moving fast.

Dolby is secretly building a mobile music production app it hopes will seduce SoundCloud rappers and other musicians. Codenamed “234” and formerly tested ...

More than four years after police Officer Jason Van Dyke's shot Laquan McDonald 16 times on South Pulaski Road, more than three years after video of the ...

I want to explain to you why it's so difficult for me to speak — the diagnosis, all of it — and what my life is like now, because one day you'll be in my shoes, living ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - In Kinshasa's lush Botanical Garden, the scene was set to celebrate the election of the man Joseph Kabila had chosen to replace him as ...

The SciFri Book Club will tackle earthquakes and human disaster response with an apocalyptic work of science fiction by N.K. Jemisin.

Will we ever collectively return to a time when dinners around the table included little more than food, your friends or loved ones, and polite conversation?

A senior track star at the University of Utah was killed by a registered sex offender with whom she had a previous relationship, police and university officials said.

This 20th January, I am celebrating 3 years of being off anti-depressants, and in case you are wondering what's there to celebrate, well, there's lots! I was first ...

By Greg Erlandson • Catholic News *Service* • Posted January 18, 2019. “Your children like young olive plants around your table” (Ps 128). I have discovered a ...

This has become one of the most common phrases heard among the Uighur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz communities outside China, both in private conversations and ...

A residents group has sued the Hackensack Board of Education demanding that it correct an error in the wording of a ballot question slated to appear before ...

It is no exaggeration to say that Mary Oliver gave me the blueprint, the road map, for the rest of my life.

SARGEANT Ron Helus was on the phone to his wife when reports of a shooting first came through.

Dear mothers of tweenage girls and boys, Are you sick and tired of getting eye rolls when you ask your kids to “update the internet on my phone?” How many ...

Mobile and landline telephone numbers are being hijacked by phone scammers, and it is taking a toll particularly on some victims in regional and rural Australia.

The scammers often pose as lonely and sad widowed men based on oil rigs or working for the United Nations in places such as Afghanistan or Syria.

CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY recently selected “nomophobia” as its word of the year, via a poll of readers. Those lucky enough not to have heard of this condition ...

Ice gripped Jane Mair's stomach when she could not contact her son. Then two police officers walked down the drive.

Facebook has admitted that it uses the phone number provided by users for two-factor authentication (2FA) to target them with ads. Naturally, its repurposing of...

HQ Words is here, and it looks like a really, really fun cross between Wheel of Fortune and Hangman.

Today we fall in love through our phones. Maybe your phone itself could be just as satisfying?

Dancing On Ice star Vanessa Bauer has hit back at Love Island's Megan Barton-Hanson after she wrote some harsh words about her split on Instagram.

Facebook did not apply for a patent on turning your phone microphone on when a hidden signal plays on a TV. I know this because I simply read the patent ...

David Gaut had moved into a flat in New Tredegar just six weeks before he was allegedly murdered by three men.

Apple and Samsung have been been fined millions for software upgrades that slowed phones.

Former President George H.W. Bush spoke his final words in a phone call with his son, former President George W. Bush, a source familiar with Bush's final ...

There's a right way and a wrong way to use your phone's autocorrect, says the person who invented it. Ken Kocienda, former Principal Engineer of iPhone ...

After waking up from sleepwalking in a near stranger's house, Celine Lopez finally faced the truth about the destructive cycle that perpetuated in her life. “When ...

Cory Monteith final words: Five years on from the Glee star's death, his mother has revealed the phone call she received from his girlfriend Lea Michele.

I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: "Mr. Watson, come here - I want to see you." To my delight he came and declared that he had ...

The Sydney Opera House / Racing NSW controversy continues to grow, with The Chaser team projecting Alan Jones' phone number onto the side of the ...

A mixture of AI and augmented reality will bring books to life for children who cannot hear them being read.

OPINION: When did everyone become a 'thought-leader'?. Whenever I wander into the fetid pool that is the self-promoters swamp of choice, Linkedin, I am ...

Those oddly pertinent ads on your timeline aren't just a coincidence, your phone is listening to everything you say.

It may seem short and simple, but how to use and write “whose” confuses even native English speakers. This is partly because they mistake it with another word ...

The key to any successful relationship is effective communication. In the business world, this means trying to understand what consumers and clients are saying, ...

CNBC walks you through how to stop your iPhone from automatically correcting your text to say something you didn't mean to.

Karl Stefanovic is gone, axed from the Today show after what he himself conceded in a statement had been a “tough time.”

People are increasingly receiving nuisance calls and texts to their mobiles. But how do telemarketers and charities get your phone number? We look at the Do ...

Join me in a buzz-free, ping-free, vibration-free, light-up-free world.

If you don't spend most of your time on the internet, it can be hard to keep up with the evolving lingo of the digital age. Luckily, the editors at Merriam-Webster ...

New laws will be unveiled today aimed at helping the nation's spy agencies and police monitor and prevent criminal activity through phones and the internet.

Five years ago, in September 2013, Microsoft made one of the most ill-conceived acquisitions in tech history, purchasing Nokia for $7.9 billion. Having failed in ...