Facial recognition is a common way to unlock modern smartphones. Scan your face, and the phone stores the data to compare against when you look at it to unlock it. But could someone use this security feature to get into your phone? There's a hidden iPhone setting that could let someone do that. Here's what to check for.

Google Maps makes it easy to get around, but you might not like seeing every single place you’ve been laid out on a map. Here’s how to check your location history: 

• When logged into your Google account on a computer, open maps.google.com.
• Click on the hamburger menu in the top left corner.
• When the full side menu is open, click on Your timeline. This will bring up a complete map of where you’ve been.
• Data of places you visited can also be recalled by opening the side menu, clicking on Your Places, then clicking Visited. 

Pro tip: You can keep certain trips out of your search history by switching on Incognito mode. Google Maps won’t keep your search history or update your location history to include this location. Here are the simple steps to enable it.

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Home burglaries are more common than you might think. In fact, the FBI says an American house gets burgled once every 26 seconds. To lower your risk of robbery, avoid these five flubs. They're putting you in danger!

Over on my Instagram page, I share photos of my life. I keep my profile private, but I'll add you!

Big Tech is supposed to safely handle our personal online data, but now they’re getting into the political game. I don’t want to be any part of that, and neither should you. That’s why I trust and use ExpressVPN.

These Big Tech companies match your internet activity to your identity or location by using your public IP address, but with ExpressVPN, no one can see your IP address — no one.

We've warned you many times to check what the apps on your phone have access to. The same goes for your PC or Mac. It's worth popping into your settings to see if your programs are spying on you. It only takes a couple minutes.

Your phone's photo roll is full of junk. I know because mine gets cluttered, too. After all, it's hard to get the perfect shot the first time. There are screenshots and other clutter, too. With just a couple steps, you can wipe that out. In this tech tip, I'll show you how.

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Spotify is one of the world's largest music streaming services with almost a quarter billion active users. And if you have ever used Spotify, you know it is impressive how well the app can get to know your music preferences. How does this software work? Through extremely complex math, of course.