A new Android warning has been confirmed, and now is a good time to check the apps on your phone. It's only February, but there's already an alert for anyone with an Android phone in their pockets. It ...

QR codes might be one of the most useful inventions of recent years, but they can also hide an unpleasant surprise. These scannable black and white images are now everywhere, letting Android and ...

A crime that forever changed how this country treats cases of kidnapping happened 30 years ago this week. The tragic kidnapping and death of a little girl in Arlington in 1996 led to the AMBER Alert: ...

In the US, Google is testing a new alert on Android phones designed to warn consumers in real-time about scam calls that impersonate banks and trusted institutions. The alert addresses a scam ...

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West Coast citizens get crucial seconds of warning with Android ShakeAlert and MyShake earthquake detection apps that issue life-saving alerts before hazardous shaking. Such new technologies turn ...

Google has shipped security updates to address 120 security flaws in its Android operating system as part of its monthly fixes for September 2025, including two issues that it said have been exploited ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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In brief: Google has admitted that its early earthquake alert system failed to inform millions of people about the severity of Turkey's 2023 quake. The highest level "TakeAction" warnings were only ...

According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety's website, the Turquoise Alert is a notification system that "provides immediate information to the public through issuing and coordinating alerts ...

Arizona has four types of DPS alerts: Turquoise, Silver, AMBER, and Blue. Turquoise Alerts are for missing endangered persons under 65 in suspicious circumstances, while Silver Alerts are for those ...