Being asked if he would like to speak to the president of the United States was about the last question a reporter expected from a stranger in Paris.

SHE was allegedly horrifically raped and murdered while studying in Australia. Now her sister has made a stunning statement using just eight words.

It describes a social condition that psychologists warn is increasingly common in our modern world, but chances are you have never heard of it. Yet this new ...

A Today viewer has spoken of her distress after she claims technical difficulties saw her miss out on the show's $40000 cash giveaway.

OnePlus confirmed many weeks ago that it will launch a 5G smartphone based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 and 5G technology, and then said its first 5G ...

With 'Where Is My Mind?' rip-offs becoming ubiquitous, columnist Mark Beaumont is offering his services as a musical steal-spotter.

The sisters of Israeli student Aiia Maasarwe have revealed chilling new details about her death including sounds of “screaming and screaming” as the ...

Microsoft says anyone using its smartphone platform, Windows 10 Mobile, should switch to Android or iPhone.

"Nomophobia" has been named as Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2018. While the word itself might sound unfamiliar, the phenomenon it describes is one we ...

For the past few months, we've witnessed an increasing number of Galaxy S10 rumors, revealing almost everything fans of the series would want to know about ...

A public gathering in Israel to pressure the Australian government to quickly return the body of Arab-Israeli woman Aiia Maasarwe is scheduled to begin late ...

Reporter Dan Balz has penned a story for The Washington Post, claiming he had an impromptu phone conversation with none other than US President Donald ...

Dolby has been quietly testing a new mobile app for recording and cleaning up audio under the codename "234." The app cancels background noise, and then ...

The four major wireless carriers are trying out new ways to combat the rising epidemic of spam callers.

This is the week we pause to celebrate the life and work of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And rightly so; Dr. King was a man of great conviction, passion, ...

A surge of audio services using AI are giving voice a boost in customer *service*, but when it comes to communications in the age of mobile, messaging continues ...

OSSIAN, IND. (WPTA 21) – The father and mother of 18-month-old Kamryn Price, who police say was beaten to death last week spoke exclusively with ABC 21's ...

Washington Post reporter Dan Balz said he was unexpectedly handed a phone on Friday with President Trump on the other end, and that Trump seemed to not ...

RCS messaging, or rich communication services, has been a very long time coming. Here's how and when you can start using it on your device and carrier.

I get good battery life with my iPhone X as is, and my home office lifestyle means I'm never that far from a plug, so I'm admittedly not the target market for a ...

Samsung's first foldable smartphone is confirmed to launch in the first half of the year, and the handset won't have that many rivals, as other vendors are yet to ...

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 21: The Criminal Court sentenced a blogger to four-year imprisonment with hard labor for using words deemed offensive to the personality of ...

On-air challenge: The answer to each puzzle is a compound word or familiar two word phrase, in which the first part has a long "I" sound and the second part has ...

Samsung has a huge year ahead when it comes to new smartphone launches, as the company is expected to unveil the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy F on February ...

CNBC Make-It gathered a list of the top-rated self-improvement apps by Apple and Google. Whether you're looking to get fit or learn a new skill in the new year, ...

When you change the way you feel inside, the performer the audience sees will change.

The intellectual world will be a much poorer place with the death of Nathan Glazer. I had the good fortune to get to know Nat (as he was known) when I began ...

The employee continued to use the slur despite the customer's threat that he'd put the video on WorldstarHipHop.

Samantha Markle has unleashed on her half-sister over Twitter again. Samantha claims Meghan Markle didn't call their father Thomas Markle for Christmas and ...

Roundup Culling Cortana, poking Phone users and feeding the UWP XAML developers – it's all in a week's work for Microsoft.

'The Allusionist' and 'Wordy Wordpecker' invite you to take a closer look at everyday words.

In phone conversation, Turkish leader tells US counterpart recent bombing that killed US personnel was ISIL provocation.

Our weekly trek into the world of Instagram celebrity. This week: the influencers who post what purposefully look like paid product adverts, in order to gain the ...

ARIES. March 21 to April 20. The bright energy of Mars plus the cool determination of Saturn promise success at work or with a personal project. But it's the early ...

A television news anchor in St. Louis apologized after he uttered a racial slur in place of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last name during a Friday morning ...

In 1959, when I went to work for Newsday, on Long Island, the paper had a managing editor named Alan Hathway, who was an old-time newspaperman from ...

The way we speak to a partner can betray our true feelings behind the words we use, and artificial intelligence has learned to pick up on these to predict whether ...

The debut EP from the Sudan-born, Twin Cities-based singer, poet, and activist reveals an artist with a warm, sophisticated sound and captivating presence on ...

"I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the bas.

In a world of streaming and digital music, we opted to switch our toddler to the record player only. The results have been amazing. Instead of Baby Shark and ...

If you have trouble remembering names, faces or phone numbers, these tips from memory champions and neuroscientists can help.

In John Scalzi's short story, an overbearing CEO demands that his employees engineer a solution to his dad's aging dog. "A Model Dog" is part of Better Worlds, ...

A 17-year-old Child in Conflict with the Law (CCL) was Monday caught for allegedly sexually harassing a married woman over phone "demanding sexual ...

Here's how I got to bottom of the ads-coinciding-with-conversations mystery.

Sean Fazende explains why the Saints should be in the Super Bowl.

Those words, shared by Roosevelt School Principal Kevin Dwyer, helped to summarize 90 years of history at the Park Ridge school — history that is being ...

Will we ever collectively return to a time when dinners around the table included little more than food, your friends or loved ones, and polite conversation?

A senior track star at the University of Utah was killed by a registered sex offender with whom she had a previous relationship, police and university officials said.

John Coughlin, a two-time U.S. pairs champion recently suspended from figure skating, died by suicide in Kansas City, Mo. He was 33.

I want to explain to you why it's so difficult for me to speak — the diagnosis, all of it — and what my life is like now, because one day you'll be in my shoes, living ...

Marisa Kwiatkowski followed a tip about USA Gymnastics. Then her phone started ringing.

The arrest of seven people for a St. Petersburg case of human trafficking highlights a new social media vulnerability: online video games.

Cory Monteith final words: Five years on from the Glee star's death, his mother has revealed the phone call she received from his girlfriend Lea Michele.

More than four years after police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald 16 times on South Pulaski Road, more than three years after video of the killing ...

SARGEANT Ron Helus was on the phone to his wife when reports of a shooting first came through.

I have fallen in love with Vampire Weekend several times. The first I can remember was in the backseat of a minivan when “A-Punk” came on the radio.

A residents group has sued the Hackensack Board of Education demanding that it correct an error in the wording of a ballot question slated to appear before ...

People are clicking on poetry on Twitter. They're listening to poems on podcasts. They're buying poetry collections on Amazon.

The scammers often pose as lonely and sad widowed men based on oil rigs or working for the United Nations in places such as Afghanistan or Syria.

A short story from 'May We Borrow Your Country', an anthology of writing by The Whole Kahani, a collective of British women of South Asian origin.

Today we fall in love through our phones. Maybe your phone itself could be just as satisfying?

Mobile and landline telephone numbers are being hijacked by phone scammers, and it is taking a toll particularly on some victims in regional and rural Australia.

This has become one of the most common phrases heard among the Uighur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz communities outside China, both in private conversations and ...

New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram carries the football against the Los Angeles Rams during the NFC championship game on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 ...

With support for Wi-Fi and 4G but some serious core issues, the new 8110 is both an improvement and a step back compared to last year's revived 3310.

HQ Words is here, and it looks like a really, really fun cross between Wheel of Fortune and Hangman.

In a brief video clip, a woman claims teens from Covington Catholic High School harassed her and her friends in Washington D.C. after the March for Life ...

Facebook has admitted that it uses the phone number provided by users for two-factor authentication (2FA) to target them with ads. Naturally, its repurposing of...

When Brian Wallach had trouble grasping a pen, he chalked it up to exhaustion. After all, he was the father of a year-old daughter, with another on the way.

Apple and Samsung have been been fined millions for software upgrades that slowed phones.

Former President George H.W. Bush spoke his final words in a phone call with his son, former President George W. Bush, a source familiar with Bush's final ...

There's a right way and a wrong way to use your phone's autocorrect, says the person who invented it. Ken Kocienda, former Principal Engineer of iPhone ...

I then shouted into M [the mouthpiece] the following sentence: "Mr. Watson, come here - I want to see you." To my delight he came and declared that he had ...

Those oddly pertinent ads on your timeline aren't just a coincidence, your phone is listening to everything you say.

CNBC walks you through how to stop your iPhone from automatically correcting your text to say something you didn't mean to.

The key to any successful relationship is effective communication. In the business world, this means trying to understand what consumers and clients are saying, ...

Karl Stefanovic is gone, axed from the Today show after what he himself conceded in a statement had been a “tough time.”

By Mark Ellwood At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to globe-trotters in all of our ...

Join me in a buzz-free, ping-free, vibration-free, light-up-free world.

If you don't spend most of your time on the internet, it can be hard to keep up with the evolving lingo of the digital age. Luckily, the editors at Merriam-Webster ...

New laws will be unveiled today aimed at helping the nation's spy agencies and police monitor and prevent criminal activity through phones and the internet.

Spare a thought for the poor souls running public relations for Chinese smartphone and telecom giant Huawei. Because the headlines just keep getting worse.

John Schnatter—the founder, chairman and public face of pizza chain Papa John's—used racially offensive language on a conference call in May, a source with ...

Five years ago, in September 2013, Microsoft made one of the most ill-conceived acquisitions in tech history, purchasing Nokia for $7.9 billion. Having failed in ...

These phrases are meant to sound like random letters and numbers, but in certain situations, they can be signs of a serious emergency.

AutoCorrect automatically fixes typos, which is convenient—but it thinks swears are typos. Your iPhone or iPad likes changing swear words into similar, incorrect ...

British author and frequent flier Tilly Bagshawe, who lives with her family in California, offers her top tips to make your foreign travels more comfortable.

The tempo for major smartphone launches at the tail of the year is always a little hectic. You've got Samsung, Apple, LG, Google, Razer, Samsung (again) and ...

A new study suggests teens who get more exposure to cell-phone radiation — and hold their phones up to their right ear — do worse on one type of memory ...

At Bloomberg Pursuits, we love to travel. And we always want to make sure we're doing it right. So we're talking to globe-trotters in all of our luxury fields—food, ...

These sleek, downgraded cell phones are meant to promote mental wellbeing – by turning the clock back to the pre-smartphone era.

Google has unveiled a new feature for its AI assistant that will make real phone calls for users, booking reservations at restaurants and hairdressers. But what ...

For many millennials, talking on the phone is a lost art. Texting and email take precedence over actual conversations. In fact, one survey found that 74 percent of ...

Google's latest AI promises to help arrange your life by making appointment for you over the phone, but it's limited by its rote learning of the simple tasks of ...

Dressed in dhoti and a shirt, with a cotton bag dangling from his shoulders and holy ash smeared across his forehead, 40-year-old Dhanapalan (*name ...

Why does iPhone autocorrect still make so many mistakes? We spoke with Ken Kocienda, who helped create autocorrect for Apple, to find out why.

Your text messages are full of misspelled words, random spaces, and hilarious autocorrect mistakes. Here's how to prevent these keyboard betrayals.

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Google's voice AI, Google Assistant, has a lot to say at this year's I/O developer conference. Here are all of the ways it just got smarter: ...

As my aging MacBook circles the drain, I wonder: have I overestimated my computing needs?