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Church Of England Confirm Spire Talks With Phone Companies
Church Of England Confirms Talks Held To Use Spires For Phone Signals For many years now people have been talking about the possibility of using Churches as pre-existing towers for mobile phone signals. It is, however, something that both the Church of England and the public, in general, has been…
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Open Whisper Systems Denies WhatsApp Backdoor
Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp included a backdoor that allowed its employees to read users’ messages. The accusation, based on research by Tobias Belter, alleged that offline users could have their messages accessed through a newly-generated authentication key. Now, Open Whisper Systems, designer…
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Six New Unexplained Radio Signals Detected Outside Our Galaxy
Every month we seem to have speculative evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial life, whether it be mysterious transmissions or massive structures orbiting distant stars. Some are debunked, and many remain unexplained, but a series of ten massive radio bursts – which all emanated from the same region, outside of…
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Scientists Admit Radio Signals “Probably from Extraterrestrial Intelligence”
In a newly published paper, a team of scientists has admitted that anomalies detected from a number of different stars are “signals probably from extraterrestrial intelligence,” explaining that the signals “have exactly the shape of a signal predicted in the previous publication and are therefore in agreement with this [extraterrestrial…
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Bar Blocks Mobile Phones to Encourage Conversations
How often do you go out only to see people sitting across from one another staring at their phones without a single word mentioned to each other? A bar in Hove, England has decided enough is enough and blocked mobile signals in an attempt to encourage conversations. Steve Tyler is the…
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White House Offers $400 Million For 5G Research
When it comes to mobile technology, we have moved from sending simple texts and voice signals to streaming entire movies and playing games while walking around. With all of this information going around the world and through the air, new technologies are looking at bringing faster and more stable networks…
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Apples New Patent Would Disable Cameras At Events
When it comes to events these days, there are so many that you often find it hard to enjoy them all. You could go to the cinema and watch the latest scenes of explosions and romance, go see some theatre or even find out when your favourite bands are going…
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How To Hack Drones With The Dronebuster
When it comes to drones, there’s only one thing people want more than a drone, and that is a way to stop other peoples drones. After a close scare in the UK, governments around the world are still worrying about the day where a drone flies where it shouldn’t, such…
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Delta Want RFID Tags on Your Luggage – Does This Mean They Won’t Lose It?
We’ve all had that fear, you decide to go on holiday and realise half way to your destination you realise that yours could be one of the hundreds of bags that are misplaced each year. It could be something as simple as it fell off a cart or may have…
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Underwear Designed To Protect Your “Crown Jewels” from Phone Radiation?
Technology has a way of scaring people, from the original fears that the TV would create a horde of mindless zombies to the argument that video games promote violence. One of the oldest fears though is with wireless technology, something that is relatively modern in the world, and the effect…
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Man Accused of Blocking Cell Phones on Subway
We use our mobile phones for everything these days, from playing your latest game or reading your latest to talking about the last few days to your friends. Sometimes you just want to escape this, as a man from Chicago wanted when he started blocking cell phones on his daily…
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The Role Human Error Plays When Encrypted Communication Apps Are Compromised.
Encrypted communication tools and software have seen a steady rise since the many surveillance revelations that were exposed by whistleblowers, such as Edward Snowdon. The notion of encrypting your emails, web browsing history and even phone calls have led to a battle over security vs state monitoring, but, what are…
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Snowden-Endorsed IM App Signal Arrives on Android
A private instant messaging app that has the approval of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has finally been released for Android devices. Signal, developed by Open Whisper Systems, has been available for iOS since 2014, combining its previous two apps RedPhone and TextSecure, and is considered the most secure messaging and…
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Fibre-Optic Signals ‘Combed’ to Perfection
We have been talking a lot about the limitations of fibre optic cabling and signal transfer for a while now; if you recall back a few weeks, we covered a story regarding how we could be ‘running out of internet‘. Well, it now seems that scientists have overcome these issues.…
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Agent Pitta Bread Is Listening
Yes this is still eTeknix and no you haven’t tuned in for the latest Jamie Oliver recipe, oh and before you ask, no I am not wearing a tin foil hat while preaching that the world is going to end. This is the slightly bizarre story of how a Pitta…
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