Your iPhone now has a much more effective way of screening out calls that aren't important, and most users love it.

Calling a company and reaching a human operator-receptionist these days is about as rare as hitting the Mega-Million. The strange thing is, the companies that are the most likely to let an automated ...

Apple's iOS 26 update offers a new call filtering feature to screen unknown numbers, providing options to silence calls or request call reasons.

RANT to companies that force customers who dare to call their “Contact Us” phone line to be subjected to an endless loop with ...

Instead of you trying to decide whether to answer, this assistant will pick up the call itself. Using voice-to-voice and agentic AI skills, the receptionist will then ask questions to determine if the ...

Ameren is alerting customers in Missouri and Illinois about a growing solar panel where callers and door-to-door solicitors ...

Body Worn Camera recordings shows a brief car chase before officers find the car overturned in a tree line with a body next to it.

Making manual phone call reminders to patients prior to their appointment was more effective in reducing nonattendance than sending automated reminders, according to a study published in the Journal ...

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the ...

Elizabeth Cox was a bit dismayed when she received the first automated call Friday about the electricity being disconnected all day Tuesday for planned upgrades in her Palmer Township neighborhood.