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Wouldn’t you love the convenience of checking how long the wait at the grocery store is before going? Or how busy a gym is? By now, we’ve all experienced how social distancing can make normal errands a little more tedious. Well, a newly-popular app aims to help out. With social distancing and capacity limits in place, restaurants and retail...

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea explains how an app created by a UCSD grad aims to keep us safe while we’re out and about.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers heard from one of the first people to help the pilot and passenger before paramedics arrived.

Online shoppers, beware. Scammers could be going after your money this holiday season as you try to take advantage of online deals.

A man arrested on Christmas Eve after police say he secretly filmed a teenage girl in a Virginia store dressing room is now accused of filming at least 60 other victims.

If you’re shopping for yourself or for a new mommy-to-be, check out these must-haves, and don’t forget to grab a coupon from RetailMeNot. See the essentials on California Live, Monday Sept. 30, 2019.

Tesla’s app, which many owners use as a key for the vehicle, was down for hours Monday evening.

Samsung used to use headphone jacks on its smartphones as a marketing tool against Apple. But Wednesday, Samsung reversed course. Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ Wednesday. Neither phone has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, a first for the Galaxy Note family which has traditionally tried to distinguish itself from Apple’s iPhones with features Apple doesn’t...

A Chula Vista homeowner wants to know who the man who broke into his home was talking to while he scanned his belongings.

Cameras recorded a man shattering a glass door in an Eastlake home, but he only left with a couple of purses. NBC 7’s Joe Little has more.

We’ve all wanted to tell the driver behind us exactly what we’ve thought of them from time to time — and now you can, thanks to an LED sign called RoadWayve that you place in the back windshield.

What to look for when shopping for a car for a teenage driver.

Getting behind the wheel of a car for the first time can be exciting and terrifying, so which are the most safe for new drivers? NBC 7’s Consumer Bob has more on that and what his first car was like.

The season of gift giving is just around the corner. Though it can be a stressful time of year, the fun of tracking down gifts that delight the ones we love always seems to be worth it in the end. The thing is: Men can be hard to shop for. Most of us have, at some point, asked a guy...

Turkish officials have an audio recording of the alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Apple Watch he wore when he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul over a week ago, a pro-government Turkish newspaper reported Saturday. The new claim published by the Sabah newspaper, through which Turkish security officials have leaked much information about the case, puts...

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor, is missing and feared dead after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. President Donald Trump says he wants to learn more about the incident but does not want to place sanctions on Saudi Arabia.

Amazon announced 15 new Alexa-enabled products in less than 90 minutes at an event in Seattle on Thursday, further cementing the company’s commitment to the voice assistant space. The new suite of items range from microwaves, clocks, security devices and car gadgets, as well as upgrades to its iconic speaker Echo. It also introduced new ways to add Alexa to...

Police took veteran NFL guard Richie Incognito to a mental hospital after he allegedly threw weights and tennis balls at gym employees and another patron and told officers the government is spying on him, according to a report released Thursday.

Technology glitches including Bluetooth phone pairing and misunderstood voice commands put a dent in car and truck reliability scores in a major survey of automobile owners. Lexus and Porsche tied for the top spot, leading all brands for dependability in the survey released Wednesday by the consulting firm J.D. Power. But electronic problems caused trouble across the industry, pushing the...

Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online. Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes. People use online dictionaries and text each other on their smart phones. In the wallets of the privileged are “Jonsong” or “Narae” cards for e-shopping and online banking....