How to Hide Your Phone Number in MAKS Messenger
The MAKS messenger (МАКС) lets anyone who has your phone number find your profile by default — including your name, photo, and online status. If your number has ever been...
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If your Android phone’s battery drains faster than you’d like, a few background features may be partly to blame. One user reports disabling three common Android functions — present on...
Read more → Why Smartphones Almost Never Appear in Our Dreams
Despite being the object we interact with most throughout the day, the smartphone is strikingly absent from our dreams. An analysis of more than 16,000 dream reports offers a concrete...
Read more → How to Block Calls From Unknown People in MAKS Messenger
MAKS messenger allows anyone who knows your phone number to call you by default, which increasingly opens the door to spam and scam calls as the platform’s user base grows....
Read more → Why Charging Your Phone to 100% Wears Out the Battery Faster
Charging your smartphone to 100% every night feels natural, but it accelerates battery degradation. Manufacturers recommend keeping the charge between 20% and 80% for good reason: at full charge, the...
Read more → Samsung Galaxy: How to Create Home Screen Shortcuts for Any Settings Page
Samsung’s One UI settings menu is notoriously deep, with useful options often buried three or four levels down. There is, however, a way to place a shortcut to any specific...
Read more → Is Charging Your MacBook to 100% Bad for the Battery?
Charging a MacBook to 100% and then using it on battery power is perfectly normal and does not, by itself, damage the battery. The real threat to long-term battery health...
Read more → Focusing Attention on Your Body May Reduce Inflammation, Early Study Suggests
A small but intriguing study published in Nature Human Behaviour found that paying close attention to bodily sensations during a mild inflammatory reaction physically reduced the size of that reaction...
Read more → macOS 27 Adds a Standalone Siri App to the Dock
Apple’s upcoming macOS 27 Golden Gate will introduce a dedicated Siri application — a standalone window for interacting with the rebuilt assistant that has never existed as a separate app...
Read more → Google’s New Android APK Sideloading Restriction: 24-Hour Wait and How to Bypass It
Google is rolling out a new layer of protection for sideloading Android apps from unverified developers. The change introduces a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before users can install APK files...
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