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Afterpay, Apple and other financial tech companies are popularizing installment plans for paying off shopping splurges. These programs can also cause confusion and a loss of control.

Artificial intelligence powers more apps on your mobile devices than you may realize. Here’s how to take advantage of the technology — or turn it off.

These selfies, taken with an ultra-wide-angle lens, aren’t fussed over. Sometimes they are just “distorted and crazy.”

A group supporting those who practice polyamory and other forms of “ethical non-monogamy” want more relationship-status options on Facebook.

From power bricks to cables, it’s time to incorporate USB-C or wireless charging into your setup.

Soon, iPhone owners will be able to edit text messages, and Android owners will be able to send high-resolution photos. Many of the changes are long overdue.

Hate it or love it, your electronic inbox is still a popular point of contact and communication. Here’s how to keep it under control.

Apple’s do-it-yourself tools and instructions are far from ideal for most of us. I know this because I broke my phone trying to use them.

If you have decades of family history stored on old slides and negatives, you can easily convert those pictures to digital photos.

Much like the fitness tools that count steps, these electronic devices help keep a record of the day’s religious recitations.

The Trump-backed social media app is inundated with phony accounts and features that don’t work. It also hides some posts, including those with curse words.

Here’s how to be mindful about the tech subscriptions, phone bills and upgrades that drain our budgets.

Los mensajes de texto basura están aumentando. Ahora los estafadores te envían textos que parecen generarse en tu propio teléfono. Así puedes protegerte.

There are thousands of apps that claim to promote mental well-being, but not all of them are safe or effective.

The video game evokes the hardship and disappointment of the pandemic, but also the hope of human communion.

Text spam is on the rise. The latest version involves scammers sending messages to you seemingly from your own phone number. Here’s what to do.

Apple and Google are pushing privacy changes, but a shift in digital tracking is giving some platforms a bigger advertising advantage.

Along with the annual wave of tax-related phishing attempts, fake Ukrainian war-relief charities are flooding the internet.

He helped make the home computer ubiquitous by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80, which was so novel at the time that it became a museum piece.

Our gadgets eventually become outdated, but here are workarounds to keep them alive and secure past when manufacturers say.