Built-in smart assistants let you use voice commands on iPhone or Android. You can quickly locate photos of your favorite people or furry friends or take a screenshot without using your hands. Here are a few ways Siri and Google Assistant make life easier.

Regardless of why you want to keep your text messages secret, this is a handy trick that you may not know. Perhaps you use your phone for work and don’t want personal messages popping up while you're with clients. Keep your private messages private by using iPhone’s secret feature.

Here’s how:

• Open the Notes App.
• Type in a subject for your note.
• In the top right-hand corner of the app, tap on the person icon to add someone to the note.
• Tap the three dots at the top of the note.
• Select Share Note.
• Under Share Options, choose Can Make Changes.
• Choose how to send your note.

Now that a person has been added to your note and allowed to make changes, you can communicate privately. And it won’t show up in your text messages.

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Gas prices are slowly coming down, but don't expect a bargain at the pump any time soon. That's why I want to share how you can get back money when you fill up. It's an easy-to-use app that gives you back real cash (not just points) for things you're already buying.

You can hear my show this weekend on 430+ top radio stations throughout the United States, streaming in your favorite radio app, and available as a podcast you can listen to any time at GetKim.com.

You probably have thousands of photos on your phone eating up space, and you want to preserve those memories. IDrive is the perfect solution for backing up and protecting all your precious photos and videos. Use it to back up all your devices: PCs, Macs, servers, iPhones, Android phones and more. Sync everything to one account.

IDrive is like an insurance policy for your data. Plans start at less than $7 a month.

It feels like Google has a monopoly on the internet, especially with Chrome. If you're sick of Chrome's lack of privacy protection, these alternative browsers could quickly become your new feature-rich favorites.

Gone are the days of pretending that what we post, search for, or look at online is private. The internet is forever, and that includes your Google searches. If that makes you uncomfortable, we have good news. You can keep what you look for to yourself by taking a few steps.

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The Amazon Rainforest is one of the densest forests in the world. Archeologists have had difficulty exploring it with thick trees covering most of the area. So, they have turned to tech, using lasers shot from satellites to detect hidden ancient cities under the brush. What they found is incredible.