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Mans 911 Complaint About Cold McDonalds Sets Twitter Alight
Mans 911 Complaint About Cold McDonalds Sets Twitter Alight Despite various celebrities and health experts telling me I ought to be eating right, I still tend to go for the occasional McDonalds. That is certainly what one Canadian man fancied, however, he couldn’t be quite bothered to go out and…
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Apple Enables Auto Location Sharing for 911 Calls on iOS 12
For Faster Emergency Response Apple is seeking to improve emergency response times via the latest iOS 12 update. Now iPhone users will automatically share the location data whenever calling the 911 emergency number. Considering close to 80 percent of 911 calls today come from mobile devices, this seems like a…
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Ambulance Service To Test 999 Video Message Assessments
Emergency 999 Ambulance Service To Trial Video Message Assessment Hopefully, none of you reading this have ever had the misfortune to require calling 999 to request an emergency ambulance. Despite this, the service does receive a significant number of calls. What is most unhelpful, however, is the number of times…
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PyroLance Water Hose – Cuts Through Concrete and Metal
PyroLance Water Hose Firefighters have received a new tool which could prove to be a unique way to battle fires. Particularly those which are not easy to access or are behind surfaces which can not be penetrated. Coming on the completely opposite end of Elon Musks flamethrower, we now see the…
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Verizon Tests Flying Cell-Site LTE Drones for Disaster Relief Situations
Verizon has been flight-testing LTE drones as part of their disaster relief situation plan to expand network coverage after a catastrophic event such as storms, tornadoes or earthquakes which usually knocks out cell towers and disables people’s ability to contact emergency services. Verizon has been doing the tests since October…
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Apples WatchOS 3 To Be Your Emergency Savior
When you go abroad, there are many things you have to worry about. Health insurance in case you get injured, a passport to even get on the plane and then there is all the places and laws you have to keep track of. In their WWDC speech, Apple looks to…
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Kepler Space Telescope Recovered from Emergency Mode
It was recently reported that the deep space telescope, Kepler had run into trouble and had forced itself to enter its emergency mode. Thankfully the planet-hunting spacecraft has since returned to a stable state. NASA’s Kepler team engineers were able to direct the communications array aboard the craft towards Earth and…
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Planet Hunting Spacecraft Kepler Enters Emergency Mode
NASA engineers have raised a mission emergency in regards to the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has unexpectedly entered its emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth. This mode is the lowest level of operation for the craft and worryingly, also consumes the most fuel while in it. The last time…
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The Wonders of Technology – Anti Earthquake Beds!
Natural disasters. We can be warned about some of them, such as Storms and Volcano’s erupting but sometimes that just isn’t enough. Earthquakes strike fast, and even with preparation, they can be deadly. Not to fear, a clever designer has created a range of beds designed to keep you safe should…
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EU’s Mandatory eCall Technology Could Spark Privacy Concerns
EU’s safety idea to add mandatory eCall units to cars is expected to start in March 2018. Every new car sold in the EU will need to be equipped with the new technology as the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee voted in favour of the draft EU…
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Delusional Grand Theft Auto V Player Calls Ambulance Over Imagined Shooting
A man who called 999 to report a shooting at his house was in a ‘confused’ state after playing Grand Theft Auto V, a court heard last week. Back in November, 25-year old David Helens, after a marathon GTA session, called an ambulance to report the shooting of his friend…
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British Government Want to Build a ‘Super Database’ To Help Run the Country
Even with all its power, the UK government has admitted that it’s at a point where simple tasks, such as sharing information or data between two different departments, has become a burden. This is mostly due to the fact that there are a wide range of databases controlled by each…
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Silverstone SST-PB03 AA Emergency Battery Pack Review
Introduction In our highly connected digital worlds, keeping on touch with everyone around us is virtually mandatory and as a result we find ourselves demanding more and more battery life from our mobile devices and smart phones. Naturally there is only so much power that can be crammed in to…
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