Transform your old smartphone into a cost-effective home security camera. By downloading a third-party app, you can repurpose unused devices to monitor your home, children, or pets. This simple DIY ...

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For complete privacy, you can manage alerts and notifications yourself with a free self-monitoring plan from SimpliSafe. You can also live stream from cameras if you want to find out what’s making ...

Security keys lock down your account. The new YubiKey 5C NFC works with USB-C ports on a laptop and phones' wireless NFC connection. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

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President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians. By Anton Troianovski ...

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Passkeys offer stronger protection than passwords—and they have the potential to eliminate passwords altogether if more people adopt them. We break it all down and show you how to get started. I ...

You don’t even know how much personal information your smart home devices collect about you – or which ones do. It’s a tricky world to be living in when it comes to using anything connected to the ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...