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How to Get Emergency Power From a [U.S.] Phone Line
How to Get Emergency Power From a Phone Line: What do you do if the power is out and you need to charge your cell phone to make an emergency phone call? Don’t worry. There are plenty of potential power sources all around you. One of them is the phone line. In this instructable, I am going to ...
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ICE: We don’t use stingrays to locate undocumented immigrants
Letter adds that, even when you’re targeted via stingray, you can still call 911.
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In Landmark Ruling, Court Condemns Use Of Stingray Devices
In a decision that could have far-ranging implications for Americans’ privacy protections from law enforcement, an appellate court has for the first time ruled strongly against the use of controversial stingray devices that covertly track citizens’ cellular devices. Citing Americans’ constitutional right to privacy, Maryland Court of Special Appeals Judge Andrea Leahy wrote, referring to the Baltimore Police Department’s use of the devices in an attempted murder case...
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Untraceable communication — guaranteed
New untraceable text-messaging system comes with statistical guarantees.
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Bill introduced to criminalize warrantless cell phone surveillance
The use of "stingrays" that capture data about cell phone calls has become increasingly controversial, but law enforcement agencies continue to embrace the devices. Just last week, IRS Director John Koskinen was questioned in the US Senate about his agency's acquisition of a stingray for its criminal investigations. Today, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has said he'll introduce a bill that will criminalize any use of a stingray without a warrant.
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How Telephone Etiquette Has Changed
Understanding social norms for the phone means accepting the fact that the things we call "phones" are actually computers.
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Lawyers plan challenge to arrests based on secret cellphone tracking
Defense lawyers in Baltimore are examining nearly 2,000 cases in which the police secretly used powerful cellphone tracking devices, and they plan to ask judges to throw out “a large number” of criminal convictions as a result. “This is a crisis, and to me it needs to be addressed very quickly,” said Baltimore’s deputy public defender, Natalie Finegar, who is coordinating those challenges. “No stone is going to be left unturned at this point.”
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We’re only five years away from deploying 5G, but most of the world is still on Edge
In the Middle East and Africa, 80% of the mobile subscriptions are currently on Edge.
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Cortana for Android gets leaked ahead of official launch
Cortana on Android has just been leaked on the internet. Few months ago, Microsoft announced that the personal assistant will be making its way to Android and iOS. The personal assistant was supposed to come to Android later this month, however, it has just been leaked and it is functional.
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Project Fi review: The most remarkable feature of Google’s new cell service
Google's Project Fi feels like any other wireless carrier — and that's a big deal.
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Bluetooth beacons are helping the blind navigate London's Tube
London's Underground network can feel like a maze for even the most seasoned traveller, especially at rush hour when you're packed in with hordes of disgruntled commuters. The problem is only amplified for blind and partially sighted people, but a combination of Bluetooth beacons and smartphone app could make the experience less stressful.
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The SIM card is about to die
If there's one thing I've learned about Apple's dealings with SIM cards in the past seven years, it's that Apple gets what Apple wants.
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The greatest myth about phones is that you are in control
In the human-machine relationship, you, fellow Homo sapiens, are commonly designated as the owner, operator, or otherwise dictator of the subservient device in your possession.
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This bent iPhone 6 poster is perfect
Billboards can be big and unwieldy things. Sometimes big things need to bend a little to fit into the limited space of our puny little planet. And sometimes the thing that's being advertised is so perfectly in sync with the billboard's shape as to require no further explanation.
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North Korea Issues Cellphone Etiquette Guide
You know when you're on a crowded public bus and a guy is talking really loudly on his cellphone about how just because he once cared deeply for his ex-wife that doesn't mean he should be obligated to give her a kidney, and then once he gets off the phone all the commuters standing around him have an impromptu life talk about what he should do?
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What's Up With That? Phantom Cellphone Vibrations
It happens to me maybe once or twice a month. Just the other morning I was in the elevator with my bike, riding up to our third-floor office. I felt a vibration in my pocket and reached for my phone. It wasn’t there. It was in my messenger bag, I quickly remembered as I tried to act casual.
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Facebook's autoplay video feature is destroying cell phone bills
Want to save money on your phone bill? Make sure you turn off the "autoplay" setting on Facebook videos.
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Cellphone Addiction Is ‘an Increasingly Realistic Possibility,’ Baylor Study of College Students Reveals
Women college students spend an average of 10 hours a day on their cellphones, with men college students spending nearly eight hours, according to a Baylor University study on cellphone activity published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
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For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
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If You Have Facebook Messenger, You Are Being Recorded Even When Not On The Phone
Geez, how much more in bed with Obama and the NSA can Facebook get? My suggestion: If you have messenger on our phone delete it. Then re-download it and read the terms of agreement. This is sheer lunacy. Also for those who didn’t know this one, check out the video below. This news is actually about 5-7 years old. Notice what the government has made cell phone makers do now? Notice you can’t take the battery out?
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