Author: Jennifer Jolly, Special for USA Today

Your smartphone can be your lifeline –
with back-battery charger and life-saving apps. You also need some other gadgets.

“I, too, have shifted from a weekend-only drinker to sipping one or two spiked seltzers almost every night,” Jennifer Jolly says.

What helps most so far? Having a meaningful connection to the outside world for answers, reassurance and help. Here are seven tech tools to bookmark.

You don’t have to pay a fortune for a webcam. There’s an easy and free way to use old smartphones for better-looking video chats. Here’s how.

As sheltering in place stretches into weeks for many, anxiety, isolation, stress and cabin fever are common. There’s free mental health help online.

Across the country, parents are leaning into the new norm of working, parenting, and teaching from home. Here are some dos and don’ts from parents and experts.

You’re not crazy. Alexa, Google and Siri-controlled smart speakers accidentally activated as many as 19 times a day and stayed awake, a study shows.

Most of us are pretty hooked on our phones, spending the equivalent of a month and a half every year, swiping, scrolling and staring at their screens.

Ads on iPad apps went from English to Spanish after a few conversations in the language at home. Could Siri be listening? Short answer: That’s not why

Ready for tech in your underwear or robots delivering toilet paper? Here are some of the coolest gadgets on display at CES 2020.