Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

Properly formatting expressions such as "H2O" in your Excel spreadsheet requires the use of subscripts. Subscript formatting makes a letter or number appear smaller and slightly below the rest of the ...

Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones, a Democrat, is facing growing pressure to drop out of the election race after texts he once sent suggesting a former Virginia House speaker should ...

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Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ...

Do you receive login security codes for your online accounts via text message? These are the six- or seven-digit numbers sent via SMS that you need to enter along with your password when trying to ...

Police are warning drivers and cellphone users about new text message scam claiming to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles and threatening “final notice” to target victims. The latest DMV text ...

First toll roads, and now DMVs are the entity text scammers are looking to hide behind. On Tuesday, May 27, Illinois Secretary of State Alex Giannoulias issued a warning, asking residents to be wary ...

Scammers gather lists of phone numbers from data breaches, shady websites, or by using software that generates random combinations. Once they have a long list, they blast out messages using spoofed or ...

My 20-year-old didn’t like that when they typed “excited” in a text message on their iPhone, iOS automatically seemed to apply a Ripple effect, part of the set of somewhat pointless Text Effects that ...

Apple users across the United States have been receiving a new wave of scam text messages that falsely claim their Apple ID was used to approve a transaction. The phishing attempt urges recipients to ...

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