NYT Personal Tech

How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime.

From photo timers to music identifiers, here are a few new iPhone and Android tools to make your life easier.

Even if gadget prices surge, we have plenty of cheaper options, like buying last year’s phone model instead of the latest and greatest.

With tariffs threatening to drive up the costs of most things, the new entry-level phones from Apple and Google present a timely opportunity to save some bucks.

Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, promise to help us focus. The trade-offs are big.

In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a “Smartphone Free Childhood” campaign is going viral.

With a national ban increasingly unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users and raises mental health concerns.

A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.

With a video recorder affixed to his board or clamped to his teeth, he took viewers along for the ride, often inside the curling “barrel” of a wave.

The Snoo. The Nanit. The Hatch Rest. Many lists of baby gear mandate certain items, but our columnist wondered if it would be better to chuck those lists out.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed but don’t quite have the willpower to curb your online habit, your phone can help you manage your time online.

Josef Fares, whose family fled Lebanon for Sweden in the 1980s, began his career as a filmmaker before pouring his creative energy into cooperative video games.

Artificial intelligence has made trip planning and research much easier and faster, but drill down and double-check everything before you go.

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence.

Amazon is aiming to catch up in generative artificial intelligence and to reboot its virtual assistant, which has been leapfrogged by powerful chatbots.

When planning your estate, leave instructions for handling your online accounts, data and other electronic affairs.

With social media aging, so are the dogs that have for years filled our Instagram feeds with cheer. And when they die, the loss can be unexpectedly heart-wrenching.

The psychiatrist and author of “Dopamine Nation” wants us to find balance in a world of temptation and abundance.

Across television, film and social media itself, here are four picks that explore crime stories associated in some way with the imperiled app.

After consumer complaints of overheating batteries, the company did not immediately report the defect with its Ionic smartwatches, according to a settlement with the U.S. government.