Monthly Archive: October 2021

Thanks to convenient, secure digital payment apps, your smartphones have truly become a digital wallet. You no longer have to dig into your pocket for bills and coins, or even your credit card, and hand them to a cashier. Instead, you can simply pay using an app. Not only can you pay this way...

Since the 2010s, the characters known as emojis have pretty much evolved into their own language on our phones and computers. But the predecessors of the “picture characters” we know and use so regularly today are older than you’d expect. Before emojis, there were emoticons, facial expressions made with punctuation marks. The first emoticons...

One of the most useful navigation tools on both Android smartphones and iPhone is Google Maps—but it also has another important use.  You can use it to send someone your location to coordinate meetups or reassure family that you’re almost home. The process is straightforward and includes privacy controls to limit what others will...