According to the Federal Trade Commission, people lost $851 million to phone scams in 2023. After email, phone scams are the most common fraud method reported to the FTC. (Getty Images) The first rule ...

Ireland is experiencing a significant rise in scam calls that appear to be coming from the UK, according to ComReg ...

Across the United States, a quiet shift is underway in the way local governments answer the phone. Non-emergency calls that once rang straight through to human dispatchers are increasingly being ...

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AI has already started replacing voice agents’ jobs. Now, companies are exploring ways to replace the existing computer-generated voice models with synthetic versions of human voices. Truecaller, the ...

For many shoppers, having a call go through to voicemail might mean moving on to the next dealer. And according to a new industry study, when shoppers search for cars, parts or auto services on their ...

Imagine your phone ringing on the breakfast bar across the room. Could it be the job offer you’ve waited all week for? But—drat—you’re smack in the middle of changing your three-month-old, who’s made ...

Rahul Naskar has years of experience writing news and features related to Android, phones, and apps. Outside the tech world, he follows global events and developments shaping the world of geopolitics.

You've probably experienced this scene: you're calling your daughter, your nephew or a younger colleague, and you get a ring tone that rings... before ending up on voicemail. However, just a few ...

Oddly enough, when the phone wasn’t ringing, that was its own kind of signal. Usually, work had slowed down. Silence might ...

It seems that Google is still working on a new design for the incoming call UI on its Phone app for Pixel and other Android devices, as another new UI has just surfaced. As it stands today, the Google ...