Telemarketing and spam calls are relentless, and you might be surprised to learn that you can do little to stop them — for example, political campaigns are exempt from the National Do Not Call ...

With spam calls outnumbering actual calls, they have become one of the biggest nuisances for smartphone users. Phone anxiety has assumed a new form, where I dread yet another call from a scammer. To ...

Google recently highlighted the launch of AI-powered warnings in Chrome for Android. Thanks to Gemini's intelligence and on-device machine learning, Google says Android users will receive alerts about ...

NordVPN is already a great VPN for Android, and now the company aims to warn you about spam calls on mobile devices. Moe enjoys making technical content digestible and fun. As a writer and editor for ...

Caller ID app Truecaller today blocks between 38 billion and 40 billion spam calls annually for its 374 million+ users. Now, in hopes of getting more people to sign on to its premium tiers, it’s ...

Google has launched two new AI-powered tools to detect conversational scams on Android devices. These new features, Scam Detection for messages and calls, respectively, were introduced in a Google ...

Spam messages can be annoying, but there is a way to fight back. Here are 5 ways to block spam texts.

Recent Flipper Zero Bluetooth spam attacks have now been ported to an Android app, allowing a much larger number of devices to implement these annoying spam alerts. Inspired by previous research on ...

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