Cashless payments have come a long way since American Express introduced its plastic credit card in 1959. For modern consumers, two factors are at a premium when choosing a payment method, convenience ...

A woman in Texas has died after contracting a fatal brain amoeba from contaminated water. The patient, 71, had used a nasal irrigation device filled with unboiled tap water from an RV’s water faucet, ...

A woman in Texas died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba infection from using tap water to clear out her sinuses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced. According to ...

As contactless payments become ubiquitous, fraudsters are evolving new tactics to exploit them. A Near Field Communication (NFC) relay attack is one such threat. It intercepts and relays the ...

Beginning Feb. 23, riders across the Puget Sound region can use contactless credit cards and digital wallets to pay transit fares through ORCA’s new Tap to Pay feature.

"Ghost tapping" may allow scammers to steal from you. Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal ...

When I ask friends and family why they don’t drink tap water in LA, they give the same vague answer: It’s chlorinated, gross and probably unhealthy. For years, that explanation sufficed, so I did what ...

We've all been there. You're behind the wheel, and the windshield needs cleaning. You activate the windshield washer fluid pump, only to hear a whirring sound and see nothing spray. The instinct might ...