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Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Thursday, March 27th.

I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

Want to cut down on the seemingly endless flow of spam calls and texts? We'll explain why tapping into your inner spy might be just the solution.

Then, the technology that helps us get search results in seconds could also help researchers speed up drug development.

First, the best way to free your phone of digital spam? Get a burner. Not a burner phone,

but a throwaway number. The technique, which seems right out of the

latest spy novel, allows you to keep your main number for important personal uses, and it

gives you a different number to hand out to retailers, restaurants, and dating sites. WSJ personal

tech columnist Nicole Newell Newn explains that getting a second number is actually easier than it sounds.

Nicole, for people who haven't actually done this before, how do you go about setting up a burner

number and why do you really need one?

Everyone needs a burner number.

And that's because our phone numbers have become a proxy for our identities on the internet. Every service asks you for your number.

It's very rare to not shell out your number, and that's because it's a super valuable piece of

information. The texting app, the messages app, is already installed on everyone's phones.

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