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Jul 19, 2024 | electronics.howstuffworks.com | Bernadette Johnson |Mack Hayden

By: Bernadette Johnson & Mack Hayden | Have you jolted awake in the middle of the night by your phone blaring a frantic alarm and vibrating with an emergency text about a missing child? These alerts come from the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system, a collaboration between the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and private cellular providers. But sometimes, for one reason or another, you may want to know how to turn off AMBER Alerts or...

May 8, 2024 | electronics.howstuffworks.com | Bernadette Johnson |'S Note

5. Sexting Apps That Give Users a False Sense of Security Apps like Snapchat allow you to send photos, captions and videos that self-delete after a set amount of time (usually only a few seconds). Signal is a similar service but for text messages rather than images.

May 8, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Bernadette Johnson

Learning how to catch a cheater can be fairly easy, thanks to our digital footprints. Experts don't exactly agree on what percentage of people in supposedly monogamous relationships end up cheating; estimates run the gamut from 11 to 50 percent. Many study and survey results seem to fall around the 20 to 25 percent mark — still a sobering range.