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[Link] Stop Leaving Your Smartphone's Bluetooth On
Read: 8/2/2022 lifehacker.com
Bluetooth is a handy feature that allows you to easily connect up your various devices, whether you’re trying to get your new wireless headphones to talk to your Android phone or connecting your Apple Watch to your iPhone.
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[Link] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your phones: how tech and shock jocks hacked Julius Caesar
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The new Sydney Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a “mad ride”, according to Guardian Australia reviewer Steve Dow – a production fizzing with viral imagery, TikTok rightwing conspiracy theorists, smartphone tech, Instagram wellness gurus and the unpredictable energ
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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.
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[Link] Apple Will Tell You How to Fix iPhones, Sell Parts to the General Public
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Apple has announced plans to let customers repair their own phones in a monumental shift from its current repair policies. It is going to sell repair parts directly to the public, something that few phone manufacturers have done over the last decade.
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[Link] There will never be another Pokémon Go
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Creating a follow-up to Pokémon Go is an impossible task. The game was the kind of breakout success that had never been seen before — and might never happen again; it’s hard to overstate how the game was absolutely everywhere when it first launched in 2016.
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[Link] The iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
A tweak to the iPhone’s repairability that has been long prophesied and feared has finally come to pass, giving staggering new urgency for legislation that makes repair more accessible: The iPhone 13’s screen cannot be replaced without special software controlled by Apple.
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[Link] iPhone With Common Sense USB-C Mod Currently Going for $100,000 on eBay
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
Engineering student Ken Pillonel modded an iPhone with a custom USB-C port in October. Now he’s selling the phone on eBay where its current bid is $100,100. The initial listing was for $1.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Australia also wants Google to unbundle search from Android
Read: 31/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the latest government regulatory body to take issue with how Google does business.
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[Link] Women Who Dressed as Couriers With Pink Backpacks to Deliver Drugs Over Lockdown Jailed
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Each of the women, all Brazilian nationals aged 24 to 33, wore a courier uniform, with distinctive pink backpacks, each with a “team” number written on (1, 2, 3 and 4), and a different coloured wallet inside with the driver’s name on.
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[Link] European Union announces plans to require all mobile devices to use USB-C
Read: 14/10/2021 arstechnica.com
The European Commission has announced its intent to enact legislation that would mandate all consumer electronic devices sold in the European market within certain categories have a USB-C port for charging.
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[Link] The FCC Wants to Force Wireless Carries to Finally Stop SIM Swapping
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
For years Motherboard has documented the rampant fraud made possible by SIM hijacking, or the act of covertly porting out a user’s phone number to a new device or carrier—without consumer awareness or approval.
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[Link] European Union Will Force Apple to Use the Same Charger as Everyone Else
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
The European Union announced on Thursday that it will force manufacturers to adopt a universal phone charger, meaning the iPhone will have to use USB-C or whatever standardized charger regulators decide to use and will no longer be able to use Apple’s proprietary Lightning Charger.
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[Link] Apple allows children to access casual-sex and BDSM apps, finds report
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apple knowingly lets underage users access apps intended for adults, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), despite having asked for and recorded their dates of birth.
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[Link] The rise of the $100 smartphone: the beginning of a new era?
Read: 9/8/2021 www.techradar.com
It’s been nearly 17 years since Nicholas Negroponte unveiled his grandiose plan to provide computers for children across the world in a bid to squash digital illiteracy, but also revolutionize the industry at the same time.
[Link] Corning Made a New Type of Gorilla Glass Just for Smartphone Cameras
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Corning’s Gorilla Glass has long been used to create super-strong see-through panels used on the front and back of phones, tablets, and more, but now Corning has created a new version of its durable silica designed specifically for use in smartphone cameras.
[Link] 7 Cool Pixel Features You Can’t Get on Other Android Phones
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
The Google Pixel series of phones hasn’t really caught the imagination or attracted the sort of sales in the same way that its big-name Android rivals have, but Google actually introduced Android features first on its Pixel lineup.
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