Consumer Tech Update

Twenty-six billion. That's how many robocalls Americans received last year. The FCC is stepping in, but blocking robocalls is harder than we thought.

Millennials are the first generation of Americans to have grown up in a world with social media. Singer-actress Selena Gomez is one of those millennials, and she's surveying the damage.

We hear a lot about the dangers of the Dark Web. But darkness can be found on the supposedly sunny side of the web too, and it's easy for young people to fall under its shadow on social media.

Facebook says it has fixed a major security problem that exposed 1.5 billion users to spying by hackers. What's worse is that the hack worked with a simple phone call.

Legendary singer-actress Doris Day died Monday at age 97. Just after her death, however, the memory of this most beloved of stars was dragged into the internet cesspool by Wikipedia.

Well, at least this time no one is getting hurt. For almost three years one Samsung phone or another has been exploding or catching on fire. Now Samsung is facing another, less dangerous, but still disastrous fail.

So you're all set to buy a 5G phone and start living in the fast lane. But how fast will you really be going?

Debt collectors now have more ways to reach people who haven't paid up. Along with using phone calls, debt collectors are now allowed to go after a person via text, email and social media messages. What changed?

Google Lens is pretty terrific as is and now it's going to get better. At its annual conference, Google announced changes to Lens and introduced several new products and updates.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, that's the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to you peasant, had their first child yesterday. The infant may not have a name yet, but he's already become a tool for online scammers.

If your smartphone rings once in the middle of the night, you've been targeted in the latest phone scam. This one is traced to Africa and it's important you don't do one thing.

The nation's first generation of children to grow up in the age of social media graduates from college this year. Regrets, they may have a few. But, Gen Z has it figured out.

Talkin' 'bout their generation. Millennials are changing the way they watch TV. It's hurting some industries but possibly helping others.

You can always gauge how much legal trouble Facebook is in by how many shiny new toys it puts in front of consumers. Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a re-redesign of the social media site, but does it really matter? 

Yet another story pops into headlines telling us our personal information has been leaked. This time it targets adults over 40. Better be on the lookout for phishers.