Scams are not just emails from pretend princes anymore. They arrive by text, phone call, Facebook message, fake invoice, QR code, dating app, job listing, marketplace ad, and pop-up window. The FTC said consumers reported losing $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024.
Computer shopping and computer repair would be a lot easier if the words made sense.
Readers love free ebooks. Authors love finding new readers. And somewhere in the middle sits a whole world of ebook deal newsletters, library apps, and promotional sites that can fill your phone, tablet, Kindle, or computer with enough books to make your nightstand feel personally judged.
Let’s sort out the big social platforms: who uses them, what they’re best for, who owns them, how their feeds work, whether you can see only people you follow, and what the worst complaints are.
Google has been adding AI features to Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Search, Android, and Gemini. Some of those features are handy. Some are creepy-feeling. Some are both at the same time, which is pretty much the official motto of modern technology.
You don’t have to be a computer expert to make life a whole lot harder for scammers
These are 60-second fixes — little things you can do to your PC, phone or tablet right now that can free up storage, save battery life, improve performance or simply make your technology less annoying.
Most people don’t deliberately abuse their computers. Nobody wakes up and thinks, You know what this laptop needs? A blocked air vent, 73 browser tabs and six years without a proper restart.
Buying a new computer used to be relatively simple. You bought a computer. Now you walk into a store — or, more likely, open a website — and you're confronted with desktops, all-in-ones, laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, tablets, 2-in-1s and phones powerful enough to do things that required an entire office full of equipment 25 years ago.
Is your computer taking longer to get going in the morning than you do? Before you decide it's time to spend hundreds of dollars on a new one, give the old girl a little attention.