Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is the lead consumer technology ...

Even though all modern smartphones offer built-in email capabilities and a wide selection of email apps to choose from, there are still times you may find it preferable to send a short text message to ...

Although Gmail allows users to sign up for multiple accounts, there's an easier way to have several unique email addresses. By using special characters, such as a period or plus sign, you can modify ...

Yahoo is releasing inactive Yahoo IDs so that users can score a better email address. This means you can finally have [email protected] instead of [email protected], for example. Sounds great, ...

Does your e-mail address give clues about your personality? Sam Gosling thinks so. He's a psychology professor at the University of Texas and author of a forthcoming book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says ...

Ever wonder whether an email address someone gave you—say [email protected]—actually exists? Tech blogger Amit Agarwal explains how to verify an email address using both simple and decidedly geekier ...

One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. Adding a “+” character after the username portion of your email address — ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

With these free online tools, you can immediately check whether your email address has been leaked on the internet and is associated with stolen data. One of the two tools, haveibeenpwned, has just ...

Whether it’s a substantive danger or just repackaged data that’s nothing new, its presence should yet again raise awareness of the steps everyone should take to keep themselves safe online. And if you ...