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.

Facebook launches a desktop app for Messenger on both Mac and Windows. A look at the good, the bad and the promising.

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.

In the war against the spread of the coronavirus, tech gadgets and telemedicine services are getting fast-tracked to the front lines.

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.