David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

If the people in your Zoom call can’t hear or see you, don’t panic — just check your OS and browser settings. If the people in your Zoom call can’t hear or see you, don’t panic — just check your OS ...

How often do you assess the risk of browser extensions and their permissions? There are a myriad of browser extensions that can be installed in today’s modern web browsers. While browser extensions ...

If you're the sort of person who habitually clicks "yes" on things, you've likely experienced your important smartphone notifications getting buried beneath an avalanche of unwanted spam from ...

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Since Android 13, sideloaded apps have had a harder time getting accessibility permissions. Malicious apps often use them to try to breach the victim’s security and privacy, so Google has focused on ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Apple's macOS Sequoia has a few new features ...

Google is updating the Chrome web browser to automatically revoke notification permissions for websites that haven't been visited recently, to reduce alert overload. While Google Chrome's Safety Check ...