A popular smartphone app that uses a bot to assess health problems has been updated to include symptoms for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Ada is a “doc-in-a-bot” app developed a few years ago by doctors who seek to get medical advice and health assessments to people with no easy access to doctors and hospitals. Using artificial intelligence,…
Renewed fears of the coronavirus are having an impact on shipping products ordered through Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers. Amazon this week posted a note on its website for some customers that deliveries could take longer than the 2-days Prime members have come to expect. I think we all can understand that delays happen but if you’re paying $120 a…
Everyone’s talking about washing hands to stop the spread of the flu and the coronavirus, but what about the filthiest thing we touch every day? The thing that can transmit flu-carrying germs straight to clean hands? You know, smartphones and computers. Cleaning these expensive devices isn’t simple and may not be all that effective at killing germs for a simple…
If you’ve ever lost a strong signal on a smartphone, this trick may get you back online in 2 seconds. The last time my family went on a fairly long trip by car we drove through a rural part of the country. I heard a simultaneous “I don’t have internet!” I’ve been on that stretch of I-65 before and I…
As health workers are busy trying to contain the Covid-19 or the coronavirus and disseminate accurate information, app developers in China and elsewhere are working hard to take advantage of the concerns. In the last week, coronavirus trackers have been showing up in the Google Play Store. They promise to send the latest information to your phone and help keep…
If you want to make your smartphone photos pop, you need a photo imaging app. There are dozens, maybe hundreds in the app stores, but the one I keep coming back to is Color Splash for iOS. This is one of those older image editing apps that came along before Instagram, Snapchat and other photo apps with built-in filters. Color…
Many email scams appear to target senior citizens but one scam that’s currently making the rounds again is having success duping younger adults out of their money. The sextortion email appears to have been sent from the victim’s email account. For instance, if your email address is “myemail@email.com”, the scam email appears to have been sent from that address. The…
When you’re sick one of the last things you want to do is crawl out of bed and go to your doctor’s office. Sometimes I feel if I’m not sick when I get there I will be when I leave. Lots of sick people in the waiting room with a cold or the flu and they’re all coughing and sneezing…
Have you ever booked a hotel that was advertised to look great only to find out it was not nearly as nice as you thought? You cannot trust everything you read on Trip Advisor. Although the company says it does quite a bit of detective work before reviews are posted, fake reviews can move a bad hotel to the top…
I suppose we’ve all heard a beep or ding or bloop when one of the many voice-assistants springs into action. We expect them to be ready when we ask Siri or Alexa or Google for the forecast or when we get to move the clocks forward. I’ll bet you’ve even become frustrated at least once when the listening device you’re…
