First Warning Weather Impact Day Thursday: Heavy rain, flood risk

Rain moves in tonight with periods of heavy rain expected Thursday and Friday in New Orleans ...

I dialed these 14 secret codes to unlock hidden features on my Android and iPhone

ZDNET's key takeaways Use these codes to forward calls, pay your bill, check balances, etc.Some of the codes work only on ...

After an 86-year-old’s landline went silent, thieves stole $25K. The hijacked phone number scam is fueling a $4.5B crisis, but 1 move can stop it cold

But within weeks, $25,000 disappeared from the 86-year-old’s Wells Fargo savings account. Thieves had pulled off a ...
BGR

TSA Might Ask You To Turn Your Phone On - Here's Why

When traveling with your devices — whether it's a laptop, smartphone, Steam Deck, or Nintendo Switch — you're probably used to taking out those electronics and putting them in separate bins at ...

How to use Hold for Me and Direct my Call on your Google Pixel 10

Go to the Phone app, click the three-line menu in the upper-left corner, select Settings, and scroll down until you see the ...

Miss Manners: My co-workers won’t stop chatting while I’m on important calls

DEAR MISS MANNERS: As part of my job as a news reporter, I spend a great deal of time on the telephone. The conversations I ...

Miss Manners: Struggling to concentrate on phone in the newsroom due to loud colleagues

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to handling noisy coworkers in a newsroom during ...
Star Tribune

To stave off smartphones, parents answer the landline’s call: ‘I can’t recommend it highly enough’

Teenagers are generally obsessed with their smartphones. So much so that Kristin Hatling’s family recently encountered a gaggle of them who had brought their screens into a resort’s hot tub. “My ...

Miss Manners: How can I get my co-workers to be quiet during important calls?

Most of the time it is impossible to ask the person to hold on while I request that my co-workers keep it down. And ...

Miss Manners: How do I get chatty co-workers to pipe down when I’m taking an important call?

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...
Mashable

The landline phone is making a comeback and your brain will thank you

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