Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just how filthy is the average phone? A 2017 study published in the journal Germs looked at 27 phones owned by teenagers and found ...

Our phones are in use every day. According to a recent survey, however, very few people bother with regular cleaning. Here's ...

CBS NEWS-- Despite their sleek, clean design, cell phones harbor loads of bacteria. That's because they go everywhere with us -- even into the bathroom. Cell phones contain a concoction of all of the ...

The most germ-addled item in your home may not be the toilet or the kitchen sponge. Mobile phones pick up bacteria wherever they go. In addition, users touch their phones an average of 47 times a day, ...

Most of us carry our phones everywhere, into the kitchen, the car, the office, and sometimes even the bathroom. The problem is that smartphones are one of the most frequently touched objects in our ...

Yasir is a Mechanical Engineer who wrote about tech at Android Police, covering Google, Android, and wearables. His interest in autonomous systems keeps him constantly tinkering with both hardware and ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- It's no secret phones can get pretty dirty over time. Whatever you touch with your hands – food, bacteria, dust -- can be transferred to your cell phone making it a mobile petri ...

A lot of care is being taken in protecting ourselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus and most of it involves keeping hands clean and avoiding crowded places. Until lately, however, few have minded how ...