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How a real calculator led to me hardly using my smartphone

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle 3 days ago By Emma Marns
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Texts from an ex are sexual junk mail - block them

Channel: Sex Sex 3 days ago By Almara Abgarian
A melancholic mid-adult Caucasian woman sits on the floor, attire casual, absorbed in her phone within the confines of a cozy living room setting.

How switching off 'everyday phone feature' can reverse aging by 10 years

Channel: Tech Tech March 30, 2025 By Danny Rigg
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What is the Parent Pact and why have over 100,000 signed up for it?

Channel: UK UK March 14, 2025 By Ben Lynch
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Apple pulls iPhone security feature after UK government 'tries to spy on users'

Channel: Tech Tech February 23, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

EE issues urgent text warning with eight 'red flags' to watch out for

Channel: Tech Tech February 15, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
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After the perfect Galentine’s gift? These adorable, ultra-tough phone cases are on sale

Channel: Shopping Shopping February 7, 2025 By Lydia Wheatley
Police refused to give stolen phone back - in case it harmed thief's GDPR rights

Judge rips police a new one after they failed to give victim's stolen phone back

Channel: UK UK February 6, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
Undated handout grab from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police of a phone snatch from a moped in London. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will chair a summit on smartphone theft after the Metropolitan Police seized more than 1,000 stolen devices in one week. Issue date: Thursday February 6, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Smartphones. Photo credit should read: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

How to protect yourself from phone thieves if the worst should happen

Channel: UK UK February 6, 2025 By Brooke Davies
Play Video In footage released by the Metropolitan Police, one plain clothed police officer is seen spotting a phone snatcher, in a dark blue backwards baseball cap and black jacket in Oxford Circus.

Phone snatcher wrestled to the ground seconds after targeting people in Oxford Circus

Channel: UK UK February 6, 2025 By Brooke Davies
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I was scammed out of £4,000 from one phone call

Channel: Money Money January 27, 2025 By Harold Richardson

Three UK customers claim outage is stopping them from being able to call 999

Channel: UK UK January 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video UK Driving Licence. Provisional and Full licence cards isolated on dark background. Macro. Selective focus. Stafford, United Kingdom, January 30, 2022.

Driving licences about to get biggest change in years and will look very different

Channel: Politics Politics January 22, 2025 By Craig Munro
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 09: An attendee inspects the the new iPhone 16 Pro Max during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters on September 09, 2024 in Cupertino, California. Apple held an event to showcase the new iPhone 16, Airpods and Apple Watch models. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How scammers are tricking iMessage users into disabling security protection

Channel: Tech Tech January 17, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

The gross reason to stop taking your phone into the bathroom while you shower

Channel: Health Health January 16, 2025 By Alice Giddings
The 02 logo, of Telfonica SA's U.K. unit, sits on a mobile phone held in front of a Virgin Media logo, a unit of Liberty Global Plc, on a television in this arranged photograph near Guilford, U.K., on Monday, May 4, 2020. Telefonica and John Malone's??Liberty Global have never been closer to finally creating the U.K.'s biggest telecom operator after flirting with various combinations over the years. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Full list of handsets losing data access for Virgin Media O2 customers

Channel: Tech Tech January 14, 2025 By Jen Mills
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Hackers steal 'intimate' location data from users of thousands of apps

Channel: Tech Tech January 13, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy
James O'Sullivan: I was scammed out of ?20,000

Someone looked over my shoulder and then robbed me of £22,600

Channel: Money Money January 12, 2025 By James O'Sullivan
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Warning to anyone with these 'dangerous' Android apps: 'Delete them now'

Channel: Tech Tech January 10, 2025 By Katherine Fidler

Five things iPhone and Android users can do to keep devices safe in cold weather

Channel: Tech Tech January 7, 2025 By Josh Milton