Your Bluetooth connection is unsafe. Very unsafe. That’s the message from the largest hacker convention. Bluetooth, which is a wireless technology for connecting everything from wireless earphones to ...

Keeping yourself safe from creeps and hackers is a big job, but certain habits make it easier. Here’s a simple one: Stop giving your phone number to every place that asks for it. Read this tip I put ...

When you switch your Bluetooth off on an Android phone, you expect it to stay off until you enable it again. This is how it’s been. However, Android 15 may change that with a Bluetooth auto-on feature ...

Google appears to be building out a feature in Android 15 that automatically turns Bluetooth back on every day if you turn it off. Strings in Android 15 builds spotted by the folks over at Android ...

Bluetooth technology provides a straight-forward way to add peripheral support to Android devices. However, running Bluetooth chews up Android phone and tablet battery life even if the device is not ...

Last night I discovered an incredibly dumb — and what I consider to be dangerous — setting enabled by default in my unibody MacBook Pro. In the Bluetooth preferences, it's the box checkmarked "Allow ...

You likely use Bluetooth every day, whether for connecting headphones with your smartphone or transferring a few files from one device to another. But what is Bluetooth, anyway, why is it so-called, ...

Apple has confirmed that Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are not fully disabled when toggled off in Control Center on iOS 11. Even when toggled off in Control Center on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS ...