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The News Of Tomorrow, Today
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There are thousands of invisible signals bouncing around us all the time, and the world would be a very different place if we could see them. Visualiser extraordinaire Nickolay Lamm already showed us what the Wi-Fi noise would look like, and now he’s back to illuminate the cell phone signals…
Earlier this week, a New York Times article claimed that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asked a group of lawyers visiting him to put their mobile phones in the refrigerator — the idea being that it would act as a Faraday cage. But does it actually work?
The next time you complain about your mobile service, keep this photo in mind: two Afghan National Army soldiers, perched atop a blast wall, struggling to get a signal. The reason? The Taliban often scares telecoms into shutting off service. [In Focus]
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