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Why Is A NASA Spacecraft Crashing Into An Asteroid?

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away.

What The Tech: Google Search Tool

Whether you put it out there or not, everyone has a big digital footprint. Your name, email address, phone number, street address, and even what your house looks like from the street. All that information can be found with a simple Google Search. But it's rolling out an option where you can request having some of that information removed.

What The Tech: How to Use Old Smartphones

If you have a drawer full of old phones that are too old or too damaged to sell back, you're probably not alone. WCCB Charlotte's Jamey Tucker has some ideas on how to use them in today's What The Tech.

What The Tech: How Much Are Old Phones Worth

Apple started shipping pre-orders of the iPhone 14 last week. Google is expected to unveil a new Pixel phone next month and SAMSUNG should have another new device coming out at the beginning of the year. If you're currently looking at the old device you have now and thinking of upgrading, you should know that depending on where you go, the difference in what you can get for the older device can be hundreds of dollars.

NASA Mars Lander Captures Strikes by Four Incoming Space Rocks

A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet’s surface.

What The Tech: Chrome Remote Desktop

We all know how frustrating it is to leave something at home or at the office that is needed right away. Maybe it's a file on your computer at home that you need at the office. Or maybe you forgot to hit send on an email or upload to Dropbox. There's a solution that only serious computer users know about. And it's free.

What The Tech: New Emojis

The fastest-growing language in the world has a whole new set of words. Jamey Tucker is looking at the new Emoji's coming to the phone in your hand and a little trick to help you use them the correct way.

What the Tech: Dialing 9-1-1

CHARLOTTE N.C. - A new survey from the journal "Pediatrics" reveals elementary school children lack a very important skill: how to dial 9-1-1. For many parents and grandparents, this skill was…

What The Tech: IPhone Features

The iPhone's iOS 16 is available now and if you're wondering what it's like, look no further. A big part of the new features, and maybe the one most people will like the most has everything to do with how the iPhone lock screen looks when you're not using it.

Lancaster County Using Social Media To Help Enhance Security In Schools

The district posts on Facebook informing parents of important issues involving their children.

Edge On The Clock: Instagram CEO Reverses Course, Says It'll Step Back From New Video Focus

After pledging to move forward with a video focus, Instagram's chief now says the company will take a big step back and regroup.

Edge On The Clock: Instagram CEO Reveals Future Of Popular App

Bad news for Instagram fans. What the CEO just said about the future of the picture-based app.

Woman Turns To Facebook To Find A New Kidney

Local Woman Uses Facebook To Find Kidney Donor

These days, most of the posts we see on Facebook all run together. Family, friends, birthdays, politics, pets. But one recent post caught our attention. A local mom posted about needing a new kidney.

AP: Amazon Sues Admins Of 10K Facebook Groups Over Fake Reviews

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products.

Edge On The Clock: Facebook To Test Allowing Multiple Profiles Under One Account

The main profile would need to be the name the user regularly goes by. But the other ones could have unique names and be tailored for relationships or interests.

What The Tech: iPhone At 15

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone in January of 2007, everyone laughed. Literally laughed out loud while their CEO announced the iPhone which would go on sale on June 29th, 2007.

What The Tech: Smishing Attacks

Twice in the last two weeks police broke up what are believed to be criminal gangs using a tactic called "Smishing", to steal millions of dollars from their victims. Smishing is not a new cyber scam but it is often successful due to how the crimes are carried out through text messages.

Instagram Hides Some Posts That Mention Abortion

Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring users to confirm their age before letting them view posts offering information about the procedure.

What The Tech: Phone Dangers

If you're planning to be on the water or celebrating the 4th of July any other way, you should be aware that it is historically the most dangerous day of the year for smartphones.

What The Tech: App Of The Day, IFTTT

Wouldn't it be nice if all of our gadgets and smarthome devices could talk or work together? If you've got an Alexa device you may know it will not work with Google Nest devices and vice-versa. Thankfully there's a website and app that allows just about any device or service to work with those that don't typically communicate very well.

What The Tech: Shortcuts

If you've never opened the Shortcuts app on an iPhone or iPad, you're missing some of the cool things you can do by tapping once on the screen or asking Siri. What is a shortcut?

What The Tech: Apple Shortcuts

More than likely you've seen the Shortcuts app on the iPhone or iPad but since you didn't know what it does, you've never opened it. Maybe you deleted it. Apple introduced the Shortcuts app several years ago as a way iPhone and iPad users can do many things with just one tap on the screen or one request to Siri.