Abstract: With the rapid development of Internet of Things and the increasingly popularized smart devices, the biometric recognition becomes a crucial component of facilitating some basic activities ...

Samsung launched Digital Home Key for Wallet, letting Galaxy owners unlock compatible deadbolts with their phones. Lose the device? Kill the key remotely via Samsung Find.

In some schools, Yondr, a pouch marketed to keep kids off devices, has proved no match for actual children. Yondr’s tech pouches have become a de facto solution for schools across the country ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Your phone number is tied to your bank, your email, your health portal and every two-factor code you receive. Criminals can steal it with one phone call. Here’s how to lock it down.

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...

An AI agent on T-Mobile's network can translate between languages as you and the other person talk. And you don't need special phone hardware to do it. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for ...

Following our report last week that Verizon is forcing people to wait 35 days for phone unlocks after paying off device installment plans, Verizon is apparently trying to eliminate the inconvenient ...

How did our relationship to our phones become so antagonistic? How did our relationship to our phones become so antagonistic? Credit... Supported by By Madison Malone Kircher Photographs by Adam ...

Verizon has recently changed its policy for unlocking phones bought via contract. The carrier now imposes a 35-day waiting period for people who pay off their phones via the Verizon app or authorized ...

Verizon has silently changed its device unlocking policy. The carrier is now imposing a 35-day waiting period for customers who pay off the phones via the Verizon app or authorized retailers. However, ...

Verizon has added on a step for customers wanting to unlock their fully paid-off devices by introducing a new waiting period in certain cases. Under Verizon’s current device-unlocking policy, ...