American chip supplier Qualcomm Inc on Monday said it had won a preliminary order from a Chinese court to ban the import and sale of several Apple Inc iPhone models in China due to patent violations. The preliminary order affects all of the iPhone models from the iPhone 6S to the iPhone X which are […]
China Bans the Sale of Nearly All iPhone Models for ‘Violating Patents’…
Children Who Are Spending 7 or More Hours on Smartphones or Tablets Brains Are Changing, Risking Lower IQs and Declining Memory, Cognitive Function…
Children who use screens for seven hours or more a day are showing signs that their brain cortex is thinning prematurely. The findings show that children are at risk of deteriorating memory function, perception skills and cognitive abilities, according to new major US study. The ongoing $300 million (£236mn) research is funded by the National […]
The Business of Selling Your Location…
A New York Times investigation has found that the information being collected about us through apps on our smartphones is far more extensive than most of us imagine — or are aware we have consented to…
Tech Gurus Don’t Let Their Kids Have Smartphones. Here’s Why…
Students are back in classrooms and parents can finally have a brief respite from worrying about their children’s excessive screen use — or, at least, worrying it is all their fault. This angst peaks each year in the summer holidays, those long, sunny weeks illuminated in large part by the blueish light from children’s smartphones, […]
Google’s Selfish Ledger Is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering…
Titled The Selfish Ledger, the 9-minute film starts off with a history of Lamarckian epigenetics, which are broadly concerned with the passing on of traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime. Narrating the video, Foster acknowledges that the theory may have been discredited when it comes to genetics but says it provides a useful metaphor for […]
The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence…
In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers, a major U.S. government contractor claims to have found a way to unlock pretty much every iPhone on the market. Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that’s become the U.S. government’s company of choice when it […]
Your smartphone📱is making you👈 stupid, antisocial 🙅 and unhealthy 😷. So why can’t you put it down❔⁉️…
In the winter of 1906, the year San Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake and SOS became the international distress signal, Britain’s Punch magazine published a dark joke about the future of technology. Under the headline, “Forecasts for 1907,” a black and white cartoon showed a well-dressed Edwardian couple sitting in a London park. The […]
Apple Sued After it Admits to Intentionally Slowing Down Older iPhones…
Apple is being sued after it admitted to slowing down older iPhone models to keep them running longer. On Wednesday, the U.S. technology giant said that it has algorithms in place to help keep an iPhone running at optimal performance if there is an older battery inside that can’t keep up with the required power. […]
Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody’s Counting…
Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term “accident.” It implies too much chance and too little culpability. A “crash” killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another vehicle while on her way to pick up cat food. The other driver, a 20-year-old college student, ran a red light while talking […]