Having your Galaxy S23 suddenly stop making sounds for incoming notifications, texts, emails, alarms, and other prompts can certainly be disruptive. You likely rely on audible feedback to stay ...

You can change notification sounds for emails and calendar events directly within the new Outlook app for Windows. In classic Outlook, you can choose whether to play a sound when a new email arrives.

A proposal in 2019 suggested that future electric cars should offer various driver-selectable pedestrian warning sounds. After looking into the proposal, NHTSA decided it's not something the ...

The default notification noise in iOS 17 was too quiet, and couldn't be changed — but that's been fixed in iOS 17.2. Here's how to select a better default alert noise. Apple's release of iOS 17 ...

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

Electric vehicles have made a name for themselves as gas-powered cars’ greener, quieter alternative. But not too quiet. Without a noisy internal combustion engine, electric cars are required to emit ...

If your Windows computer is making notification sounds when sleeping, restart it and see if it helps. At times, the issue is nothing but a glitch that can be resolved by rebooting. In case the issue ...

Brace yourselves: your cell phone will play another sudden, loud alarm at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s national test of its alert system through all ...

It’s almost crazy to think it, but for the last decade Apple has not allowed you to change the default ringtone, notification sounds, or alerts on your Apple Watch. Finally, watchOS 11 gives us this ...

If you own an Amazon Echo, there’s a chance that just reading that word triggered a pavlovian “bimm” in your mind. Or, if you have the wake sound disabled, maybe it’s the timer alarm that makes you ...

New customizations for sound recognition add to Apple's toolkit for deaf and hard of hearing users. Credit: Bob Al Greene / Mashable Apple's sound recognition tool, which allows users to be alerted ...

I wanted my Android phone to play a sound loud enough to let me know when it started and stopped charging. The default options weren’t good, so I went the third-party way to set things up on my device ...