These days, most of our devices come equipped with a camera and/or a microphone. Whether it’s your work laptop, with its webcam you use for Zoom calls, or your smartphone, whose camera you use for all the photos and videos you take, it’s hard to find a piece of tech without these features. For the most part, that’s great. After …
Spam texts are frustrating, and numerous. For some of us, it’s tough to see a day go by without another text from a malicious or suspicious sender, which, at the end of the day, can threaten your business. But you don’t have to accept these texts. Instead, report them to your carrier. If you have a message pop up on …
Even in an increasingly wireless world, USB cables are still a major presence in nearly all of our tech. Computers, smartphones, tablets, and cameras all use USB cables to charge batteries, transfer information, and connect other USB devices. Knowing which cable you have (or need) however can be challenging, since there are so many different types on the market. The …
Your smartphone is probably your main camera these days. All those photos you take, however, might be sharing more information than you think. For many of us, these pictures reveal exactly where we were when we took them. It’s called geotagging. When you take a photo on your iPhone or Android, the phone also “tags” the image with your coordinates. …
We use our smartphones everyday, for everything from sending work email to video chatting with our friends and family. As evidenced by screen time records, we spend a lot of time on these devices, and app developers know it. They design their apps to track our every move, to better understand how we use our phones, and how to better …
It’s no secret smartphones have access to and actively use our locations. After all, navigation apps like Google Maps would be useless if not for location services. However, not all location data is the same. You might be surprised to learn many of your apps, by default, know exactly where you are, when they don’t need that information to function …