Aussie mum's 'brilliant' idea to delay daughter getting a smartphone: 'Genius'

While it might go against modern trends, Bella reckons it's the best way of keeping her kids connected to their friends.

S.F. neighborhood's restaurants frustrated as AT&T outage cuts into orders, sales

The inability to take phone orders or process card payments has cut into sales for 10 days, an Inner Sunset restaurateur said ...
TwistedSifter on MSN

Teen Refuses To Speak To Her Stepdad After He Made Her Cry On Her Birthday, But Her Mom Says She’s Overreacting

Sign Up to receive the Twisted Sifters weekly newsletter for the best Internet culture news updates. The post Teen Refuses To ...

Fast Eddie's Take on Tulane-Temple

My long-time 'friend,' Fast Eddie, has found me again. After taking last week off, for reasons I am sure will be explained to me whether I desire it or not, Ed ...

Google Phone App tests ‘Call Reason’ feature to label urgent calls

Code hidden inside the latest beta version of the Phone app reveals that it’s testing a system (codenamed “expresso”) where ...

These 38 People Shared What They’d Do If The Internet Vanished Overnight And Their Responses Took Me Out In The Best Way Possible

I’ve tried to picture what I’d even do if WiFi vanished overnight—no Instagram, no random 2 a.m. Googling, no ...

As crisis calls surge in Hamilton County, recent shootings highlight importance of early intervention

Two deadly police shootings began as mental-health crisis calls; Talbert House says 988 calls are up 50% this fall.
The Buffalo NewsOpinion

My View: Phone calls were taken much more seriously in the pre-digital age

This experience got me thinking about the pre-electronic communication days when phoning across continents was very expensive ...