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You Can Finally Buy This $541 Rotary Cell Phone DIY Kit
In 2020, Justine Haupt came up with a brilliant design for a mobile phone that was free of productivity-killing distractions. Even better, it was made to look like a 40-year-old rotary phone. Two years later, a promised purchasable DIY kit allowing anyone to build their own, complete with a working rotary dial, is finally here.
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Founder of Massive Robo-Text Service Accused of Running Secret Spying Operation: Report
One of the top executives of a gargantuan texting contractor has been accused of running a secret surveillance business, the likes of which sold access to the company’s partner networks so that governments could spy on various users.
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No Good Evidence That 5G Harms Humans, New Studies Find
Concerns over the potential harms of 5G technology are overblown, according to two large new reviews of research recently published by scientists in Australia. Both found no clear evidence that the type of radiofrequency energy used by 5G mobile networks poses any danger to human health.
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Engineers Are Teaching Your Smartphone To Think Like An Autonomous Car
A team of researchers from Cambridge University is borrowing some of the techniques used in autonomous vehicles to teach your phone to navigate, even when it doesn’t have access to positioning information like a GPS signal.