If you ever notice a river go suddenly quiet, that’s your cue to get to higher ground and not film. And if snow beneath your boots makes a deep, hollow “whumph” sound, that isn’t just weird acoustics; ...

Turning off a safeguard is your choice, protecting your hearing is not.

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

Following AI Summaries last month, Google is rolling out the Notification Organizer to Pixel with Android 16 QPR2. Once available on your Android 16 QPR2 device, go to the Settings app > Notifications ...

Android 16 first came out in June but, in a change from its usual yearly update schedule, a second iteration is now on the way. Android has announced new features ranging from AI-powered notification ...

Public safety agencies across the country took OnSolve’s legacy CodeRED alerting platform offline this week after a data breach, with the company advising its customers to change passwords. Crisis24, ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

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 ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

I’m going to get right to the point. Discord likes Halloween enough to switch everyone to a spooky set of notification sounds. I dislike my primary PC unexpectedly starting up a howling ruckus as I’m ...