Tag: mobile phones
Don’t wear earphones all day – your ears need to breathe
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Wireless earphone sales are booming, with Apple alone selling an estimated 100 million sets of AirPods in 2020. Being untethered from our phones or...
WATCH: Our mobile phones are covered in bacteria and viruses… and we never wash them
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COVID-19 has seen the world embrace sanitisers and formal hand washing procedures in our private lives like never before. But...
Is your phone really listening to your conversations? Well, turns out it doesn’t have to
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Have you ever chatted with a friend about buying a certain item and been targeted with an ad for that same item the...
Banning mobile phones in immigration detention would make an inhumane system even crueler
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Mobile phones are a lifeline for those in immigration detention. But if the government has its way, this thread will soon be cut.
A proposed...
Caught red-handed: automatic cameras will spot mobile-using motorists, but at what cost?
Trials found that 5% of offending drivers used a mobile phone
with both hands while the vehicle was moving. NSW Transport, Picture: Author provided
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From disaster planning to conservation: mobile phones as a new tracking tool
Mobile phones can be used as human tracking devices
We can learn a lot about things by studying how they move through the world...