Verizon’s Cell Service Crashed. I Was Far From Home With a Long Drive Ahead. - WSJ

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Verizon's nationwide outage left a columnist stranded far from home, unable to use maps or call family, highlighting modern reliance on cell service.

I’m Signing Off From This Column After 12 Years. Here’s What’s Changed in Tech. - WSJ
After 12 years as a WSJ columnist, Joanna Stern reflects on the consumer-tech shifts that reshaped daily life, including phones becoming everything, cars becoming computers, and AI becoming the new interface.
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Joanna Stern's book "I Am Not a Robot" recounts her year integrating AI into every aspect of life and is now a New York Times bestseller.
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iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]
The iOS keyboard's slide-to-type feature causes key resizing errors leading to frequent typos, a bug widely reported after recent software updates.
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The latest Android 16 release marks a new era of frequent updates
Google's Android 16 QPR2 update marks the shift from a single yearly OS update to more frequent releases that include new features and developer APIs.
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