Upgrade your parenting toolkit with parental controls. Savvy parents use safety measures wherever possible. With technology, dangers lurk both online and within apps that children use. Fortunately, ...

Spoofed scam calls are bad enough, but neighborhood spoofing is worse — it can all be too tempting to answer when you see a number eerily similar to your own. Verizon (currently Engadget's parent ...

Children are getting smartphones and tablets at young ages, and there’s a growing requirement for teens and pre-teens to go online for school assignments and classroom projects. Add in gaming and kids ...

You may not be familiar with this, but iOS has APIs to let third-party apps detect and alert users about spam calls and SMS. With iOS 16, the SMS filtering API is getting an update to support even ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Verizon’s Call Filter has surpassed 20 billion spam calls blocked. That’s a lot of expiring extended car ...

The Google Play Store is developing a filter to prevent you from seeing apps that link to other apps. Support documentation for the filter is not yet available. We’ve got a few theories, but Google’s ...