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China Now Requires Facial Scans of New Phone Customers
Facial recognition technology is perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of identification. I mean, in theory, it’s a good idea. It is, after all, certainly a lot harder for someone to steal your face than it is your pin-code. Then again, as was proven recently, it’s not entirely impossible…
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Survey Finds Smartphone Owners Are Less Likely To Upgrade
The smartphone market has seen a significant trend in recent years that people are not quite some hyped for new releases as they perhaps were around 5-10 years ago. A great example of this was when the iPhone 8 released, there were hardly any queues. Something that had become a…
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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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Apple iPhone 8 is Being Outsold by the iPhone 7
New doesn’t necessarily mean popular! The iPhone 8 might certainly be newer than the iPhone 7, but it’s clearly nowhere near as popular. That might on the surface be quite surprising, there are, however, reasons for that. Firstly, it would seem that most people are waiting for the iPhone X which…
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Blackberry Shares have Rocketed by Over 10% After Company Abandoned Phone Market
I once had a Blackberry Phone, it was pretty decent! Blackberry used to be a pretty major player in the mobile phone market. This was before Samsung and Nokia destroyed all the competition. However, yes, along with Nokia they were one of the biggest brands. It all came to an…
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Nokia 3310 Re-Launched with 3G Capability
A retro phone with 3G capability When the Nokia 3310 was re-launched in May this year, fans of the retro phone were delighted. In mobile phone terms, the Nokia 3310 was one of the most popular models. Not only was it’s design practically bulletproof, but it also had a ridiculously…
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Chinese Village Creates Actual Working QR Code Garden
QR code in a garden? Looks aMAZEing! In a bit to promote tourism, a village in China has taken extraordinary steps. Xilinshui village, in the northern Hebei province, has painstakingly planted hundreds of trees in order to create a pattern. Now, one could easily believe that this was an elaborate…
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Doro Creates Phone With ‘Panic Button’ for Vulnerable Workers
Doro, a Swedish phone manufacturer, do not compete with the ‘big guns’. Despite this, they continue to innovate their product by creating one of the first phones with an inbuilt ‘panic alarm’. It is specifically designed for those who work alone in challenging industries. Similar to their national compatriots Ikea, the company specialise…
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Brain Tumour Charity Urges Caution over Mobile Phone Court Ruling
The Brain Tumour Charity has urged caution following a court ruling in Italy which has compensated a man for having a brain tumour which was linked to his mobile phone usage. The court in Italy was persuaded that the claimant, Roman Romero’s, tumour was linked to his 3-4 daily business use…
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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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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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Guy Builds a Mobile Phone in Minecraft That Can Make Real Video Calls
One of the biggest YouTube successes of recent years has built a working mobile (or cell) phone in Minecraft that can actually call other players in-game. Jordan Maron, otherwise known by his YouTube handle CaptainSparklez, can use his phone to browse the internet (kind of, in a blocky, Minecraft style)…
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No More Data Roaming Charges in EU from 2017
Nothing can sour the vacation more that roaming charges, but that will soon be a thing of the past in the European Union as a new law will abolish those charges by June 2017 after a 14-month interim period. That is the new deal reached on Tuesday with the aim…
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Luxa2 H1 Premium Mobile Holder Review
Introduction Luxa2 are a sub division of Thermaltake, who as we know are one of the biggest companies in the computer tech world and with a large focus on mobile devices, Luxa2 offers a premium collection of products that are aimed at consumers wanting style, durability and finesse. While Luxa2…
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