How to Protect Your Credit Cards From 'Web Skimming' Scams

You have probably heard of skimming, a type of fraud in which criminals install physical devices capable of capturing your payment card details on ATMs, gas pumps, and point-of-sale terminals. If you enter your debit or credit card into one of these fake card readers, your data is stored for later d

Android 16 Makes Split Screen Easier on Smaller Screens

Stock Android added the concept of App Pairs back in Android 15. You choose two apps to use in split screen mode, add a shortcut to the paired apps to the home screen, and it's now trivially easy to trigger split screen multitasking (instead of having to perform multiple tap and drag gestures).It so

What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Gravity Ending?

There is a rumor going around online—on Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, and (I assume) Friendster—that gravity will stop working for seven seconds on August 12. Here is part of the warning posted online:In November 2024, a secret NASA document titled "Project Anchor" leaked online. The project's budget is

Here's How Much Money Verizon Will Credit You for Its Service Outage

Earlier this week, your phone might have been borderline unusable—at least, when you were away from wifi. That was due to Verizon's nationwide outage, which affected roughly two million customers across the United States. If you were among them, you couldn't use your phone on the go, which is sort o