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UK Report Confirms Scam Calls/Texts Have Increased by 83%
I generally tend to receive at least one scam telephone call a week. The script occasionally varies (largely between something to do with my Amazon Prime account, or ‘hackers’ using my internet), but their aim is pretty much always the same. Namely, to extract either information or money from me.…
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Warnings Issues Over New ‘Royal Mail’ Text Scam
Scams are, sadly, a very common part of modern life. I myself regularly get telephone calls from my ‘Internet Service Provider’ telling me that there’s been suspicious activity on my account and my network will be shut down within 24-hours unless I (presumably) pay someone a fee. – Fortunately, many…
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Bocco Emo Offers Interactive Alternative To Text Messages
Bocco Emo There are (amazingly) still a significant number of people out there who are resisting the temptation to get a mobile phone. As such, getting in touch with them or relaying quick messages might not be particularly straight forward. The Bocco Emo, however, is looking to provide a somewhat amusing…
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Google’s Autocomplete Has New Amusing Suggestion For Sitting
Google’s Autocomplete Has New Amusing Suggestion For Sitting Have you ever tried to send your babysitter a message asking if they are free? It’s a fairly innocuous proposition as long as it involves them watching your children. One, user while doing this, however, has discovered that Google’s autocorrect system provides a much…
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Lloyds Bank Scam Texts Are On The Increase
Scam text messages claiming to be from Lloyds Bank are on the rise I daresay that anyone reading this has likely received some form of scam communication. I would think anyone with a free e-mail address almost certainly has. Like the Nigerian Prince scandals which hit hard in the 90’s,…
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The Text Message Celebrates its 25th Birthday Today
The text message is celebrating it’s 25th Birthday today! Text messaging. A convenient way to communicate. To pass on a message. And for the cowards amongst us, to break up a relationship. In the UK alone, we send over 95 billion text messages a year, but the first was a…
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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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Windows 10 Desktops Will Soon Be Able to Talk to Mobiles
Microsoft wants to provide a complete and unified infrastructure with Windows 10 and the newest feature in this area is being tested with internal builds at the moment. The new feature is naturally for Cortana and just that feature will soon be able to send texts from your desktop and…
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Researchers Prove How They Can Stop a Corvette with a Simple Text Message
Since a couple of hackers found a way to remotely control a Crysler, we’ve heard a lot of similar successful attempts on other vehicles. The latest comes from researchers over at the University of California, who have taken an interest in third-party devices coupled to the TCUs. The TCUs are…
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Scientist Send Text Message Using Vodka
Researchers at York University have managed to send a text message which read “O Canada” using Vodka, or as I prefer to think, they’ve found a great way to thinly disguise one of their drinking games as research. Using a sprayer, a fan and a sensor the team were able…
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