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T-Mobile, one of the three largest mobile carriers in the U.S., said it’s working to fix a widespread network issue. The company’s president of technology, Neville Ray, tweeted Monday afternoon at around 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time that T-Mobile engineers hope to fix the “voice and data issue” soon. At 6 p.m., Ray tweeted that data services were back...

Don’t let the holiday cheer cloud your judgment. Government officials are asking people to be vigilant this holiday shopping season.

Last Election Day, long lines for same-day voter registration at New Haven City Hall caused such chaos some people were unable to vote. Now Yale University is offering a space on campus to help shorten those long lines and prevent future problems.

Petty Officer 1st Class John Campbell forecasts the weather for the U.S. Navy.

Do you have any idea how much you use your smart phone each day? If you have an Apple device, it’s not a guessing game anymore. The IOS 12 update contains a new feature called “Screen Time” that will tell you exactly how much time you’re spending swiping and scrolling — but you better brace yourself for the reveal.

The government and AT&T exchanged opening salvos in a federal trial Thursday as the U.S. seeks to block the Dallas-based telephone giant from absorbing Time Warner, in a case that could shape how consumers get — and how much they pay for — streaming TV and movies.

The old-school arcade game of pinball is resurging in popularity. Interest has skyrocketed over the last decade or so, with the number of players and competitions growing worldwide, according to the International Flipper Pinball Association.

We’ve got a variety of tech devices that could work for a wide range of people on your holiday shopping list. Unfortunately, there are no jet packs yet, but there is something that will make you feeling as if you are flying in space.

Phone companies will have greater authority to block unwanted calls from reaching customers as regulators adopted new rules to combat automated messages known as robocalls. Rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission represent the latest tools against robocalls, which pester consumers, sometimes multiple times each day, and often push scams. The agency, which regulates the country’s phone, broadcast TV...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in the United States with a digital ingestion tracking system, in an unprecedented move to ensure that patients with mental illness take the medicine prescribed for them. The drug Abilify MyCite was developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The drug Abilify was first approved by the FDA in 2002 to...

A trio of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 owners have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Samsung USA, alleging that phone owners have “incurred millions of dollars in fees” while waiting for replacement phones....
The lawsuit doesn’t focus on the fires and overheating that sparked two recalls — the initial phone, then the replacement version Samsung released — but on the ongoing...

Apple’s latest iPhone may be more notable for what’s missing from previous models than what’s being added. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus unveiled Wednesday won’t have an analog headphone jack — a longtime staple in just about every consumer electronics device that can play audio. In doing so, Apple is betting that its legions of loyal fans will embrace...

State Department spokesman John Kirby called out a reporter playing ‘Pokemon Go’ during a briefing Thursday.

Her friends jokingly call it “Boomerang.” Maika Nicholson’s car has been stolen four times, but has also returned four times.

A Minnesota company called Ideal Conceal is getting a lot of attention for its handgun that looks like a cell phone.

Want to see if your college student is skipping class? There’s an app for that! The start-up company Core Principle debuted its app, Class120 this month. The app costs $200 a year, and allows parents, professors and campus administrators to check to see if a student is in class at their scheduled time.

College students will have a much harder time trying to skip class now that parents and professors can track if they’re in class or not.

Detectives are hoping newly released surveillance video showing a woman being abducted off of a Philadelphia street Sunday night will lead them to her kidnapper.

Apple said it was “actively investigating” the violation of several of its iCloud accounts, in which revealing photos and videos of prominent Hollywood actresses were taken and posted all over the Web.