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Driverless Bikes Are Now A Thing Too
The term driverless isn’t anything new and it is probably most known in relation to cars and Google’s self-driving car project that’s been going on for years now. But we’ve also heard of driverless lorries coming to the UK, driverless pods in London, and even driverless Formula E racing as well…
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Science Says Ending a Text Message With a Full Stop Makes People Suspicious of You
U ok hun? If your response to that is… Yes. …then you’re a phony, or at least could be perceived as one, according to science. Why? That damned full stop. How dare you use proper punctuation? A study at Binghamton University’s Harpur College, which looked into “the role of the…
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U.S. Judge Tried to Bribe FBI Agent with Beer for Text Messages
We’ve all heard the stories, governments and agencies using every method under the sky for obtaining information. Although, I think this is the first time that I’ve heard someone try to obtain information by offering beer, at least that’s what Wayne County Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones is accused…
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WhatsApp Free Voice Calls Come to IOS
Under a month ago WhatsApp released free voice calls to their Android users. Now the Facebook-owned company have begun rolling out the feature to its iOS customers. Similar to the launch on Android the change was first spotted by eager users, the update will not roll out to all Apple…
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World Record Broken With Fleksy Keyboard – Twice
Brazilian Teenager, Marcel Fernandes has broken the Guinness world record for the fastest typing of a text message on a touch-screen mobile phone. Twice. Fernandes typed “the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human” in 18.19 seconds…
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Apple Releases a Tool to Remotely Deregister iPhones from iMessage
Got rid of your iPhone and you’ve found you’re not receiving text messages from friends? No problem, as Apple quietly released a tool yesterday that makes solving the problem a lot easier. Ever since Apple introduced iMessage in iOS 5, people have complained about text messages from other…
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BBM Messenger Gets Find Friends Feature, Helps Find Nearby Friends To Add
BlackBerry is improving its popular BBM for iOS and Android, and we all know it since the company just launched an update for both platform recently. A new feature has been introduced as well, coming by the name of Find Friends. That the feature does is it searches for nearby…
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NSA Reportedly Snoops Millions Of Text Messages With The Dishfire Program
NSA has been reportedly using SMS messaging to extract data on location, contact networks and credit card details of mobile users. British spies were given access by the NSA to search the collected “metadata”, information about the text messages but not the actual contents, of British citizens. The Guardian and…
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Severe SMS Vulnerability In Nexus Phones Revealed
Details were revealed about a potentially serious SMS vulnerability found in all current Nexus phones at the DefCamp Security Conference in Bucharest, Romania. The person responsible for the discovery is Bogdan Alecu, a system administrator at Levi9 and independent security researcher in Romania. When exploited, the attack can force the…
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Facebook Messenger For Android Gets A Huge Overhaul
When it comes to communicating with our friends and colleagues, a number of us chose to do so through social media messaging as opposed to sending an SMS from our phone. One such service is Facebook messenger and for those of us that use it on our Android smart phones,…
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BlackBerry OS 10.2 Update To Arrive This Week
BlackBerry has announced the release date for the OS 10.2 firmware update. BlackBerry Z10, Q10 and Q5 are the devices eligible for upgrade, while the Z30 is running on 10.2 out of box. The BlackBerry 10.2 update brings a new Priority Hub, BBM Video with Natural Sound feature, messages preview from any app, better keyboard,…
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Android 4.4 To Let You Set A 3rd Party Messaging App As Default
The Android 4.4 KitKat update is getting near and we are all excited to see what comes out of the brain trust over at Google. One feature that they have confirmed is the ability for users to choose a third-party app as their default SMS or MMS app. This has…
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SMS and MMS To Be Merged Into Hangouts By Google
The Hangouts application, which has so far only successfully unified Google+ Messenger and Google Talk, leaving Messaging and Voice to co-exist, is finally getting SMS and MMS integration. According to sources familiar with the matter, the upcoming Hangouts version 1.3 has these features enabled and, furthermore, also allows sharing of videos via the Hangouts protocol.…
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