After two years, your phone barely makes it through half a day. Frustrating — and seemingly unavoidable. Friends and family then trot out the same old advice: drain it completely before charging, never leave it plugged in overnight, and whatever you do, don’t fast-charge it.

The trouble is: most of that isn’t true anymore. And some of it actively damages your battery.

Since October 2025, Windows 10 no longer receives security updates. Millions of PCs are still running it – and many of them can’t even upgrade to Windows 11.

What are your real options? A no-nonsense look at what comes next.

It happens in seconds: a quick grab on the subway, an unguarded moment at a sidewalk café – and your smartphone is gone. What most people don’t realize: after a theft, they end up losing far more than just the device. Because they do the wrong things in the first few hours – or the right things too late.

This article has two parts: what to do if it just happened – and what you can set up right now so that if it ever does happen, the damage stays manageable.

After our browser comparison on July 3, plenty of you wrote in – in English and German – with the same request: “What about this browser? And that one?” It turns out there are an astonishing number of them.

You asked for more browsers – here’s the intriguing question underneath: who actually makes money off them?

Few pieces of software are as taken for granted as the browser. It’s the gateway to the internet – and at the same time one of the programs we think about the least. Most people just use whatever came preinstalled.

But is that really a good choice? And what actually sets Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Brave apart from each other – beyond the marketing promises?