Earlier this week, Nokia launched a new feature phone, with numbered buttons and a novel feature: slots on the back cover for charging a pair of true wireless earbuds, which come with the handset. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the phone is focused on audio, because it’s a sequel to a music-focused Nokia phone …

People are using their phones and mobile devices more than ever, leading to greater awareness when mobile networks fail. In this time of greater demand for better service on the go, Verizon has the most reliable network in most parts of the country, according to JD Power. Verizon had the fewest network quality problems per 100 connections, as JD Power …

LG left the smartphone business a year ago, but left one big mystery behind: the rollable phone it teased at CES 2021. Now a video on YouTube may have revealed a working version of the device in the wild. The LG Rollable, as we assumed it would be called, first appeared in the company’s CES press conference, which showed the …

While Twitter’s legal team finds itself forcing Elon Musk to finish purchasing the company, the social media platform’s developers have started publicly rolling out a feature that lets people remove themselves from conversations.  Twitter described the feature, now called Unmentioning, as “a way to help you protect your peace and remove yourself from conversations” when it started testing it with select …

As the Federal Communications Commission decides whether the 12 GHz signal spectrum — currently used to beam down satellite TV as well as internet from SpaceX’s Starlink service — should be opened up to ground-based 5G service, burgeoning telecom Dish has pushed back on SpaceX’s claim that its satellite internet would be disrupted should the spectrum be used for 5G. …

For more information about your reproductive health rights and related federal resources, you can visit the US government’s Reproductive Rights site. After the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the activation of state laws banning abortion, Google has established a new protocol to protect user privacy: automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics and other sensitive health-related facilities from location histories. …

Companies might have a harder time vetting candidates now that deepfakes are getting involved. The FBI warns that employers have interviewed people who’ve used the face-altering technology to simulate someone else, and are also passing along stolen personal info as their own. The people using deepfakes — a technology that taps artificial intelligence to make it look like a person …

After lawsuits and calls for greater rider protections, Uber released its second safety report, disclosing that during 2019 and 2020, there were fewer sexual assaults but a greater rate of deaths in the course of giving rides. Uber reported that 1.4 billion rides were taken in the US in 2019 but only 650 million in 2020, a slowdown attributed to …

Chipmaker Arm on Tuesday introduced its next-gen mobile GPU. The Immortalis-G715 has ray tracing support in its hardware and 15% improved performance for better gaming on Android phones coming next year, Arm said. While Apple, Google and Qualcomm haven’t released a chipset with ray tracing in hardware, Arm isn’t technically the first. Samsung beat it to the punch earlier this …

Good news for folding-phone fans: The next Motorola Razr could be cheaper than earlier versions, if a new leak is to be believed. But the purported leak specifically lists only China and Europe as launch markets, suggesting the device may not come to the US.  The leak, published on tech site Compare Dial in collaboration with noted leaker OnLeaks, also …