The White House, the belly of an aging, pugnacious beast, has instituted a policy prohibiting staffers and guests from using personal cell phones within its walls—devices they desperately need to contact their families in case of an emergency, or to plot a swift escape.
French teachers are sick and tired of tweens and their smartphones, so they’re banning phones and sending the children straight to the guillotines. Just kidding! But they are banning the phones.
On Tuesday afternoon, Apple announced a pair of CIA-friendly intellectual cellular devices for the next immediate generation—an iPhone 8 and an iPhone X (also known as the number 10)—at its annual conference for phone people. Have questions? I’m here to help you ask them.
Entertainers have found a way to regulate irritating cell phone usage at shows and it involves making fans carry their phones in a huge pouch.
A widow in Wales was forced to take her dead husband's ashes to a T-Mobile store to try and get his contract cancelled.
Ringtones! They are a constant source of heated political debate. They are either the most annoying part of setting up your new phone or you just don't give a shit and let it go to the default.
Nearly one in five men admit to abusing their wives or girlfriends, which really makes you think, how many of those abusers do I know? With such a small number, what else do one in five people do? Refuse to wash their hands after peeing? Pick their nose in public? Be open to a sexual rendezvous with a robot? Real…
Enjoy those days of watching entire movies on your cell phone for one low rate while you can, because your cell phone company is trying to snatch away your unlimited data plan from your smartphone addicted hands.
It’s back-to-school time and all of the parents on your Facebook feed are thrilled to have their lives back. That is, right after they stopped crying about the cost of sending their little monsters to class with new clothes, learning supplies and cell phones. And these days, if a kid’s at least 12, many think it’s…
A Dallas teenager's Samsung phone reportedly caught fire as she was sleeping with the device under her pillow.
Police had to rescue a woman who accidentally walked off a pier in the Australian city of Melbourne this week because she was too distracted checking her Facebook page to look where she was going.
A woman was driving while distracted on her cell phone, and veered into oncoming traffic. Then, a fellow driver took her phone and smashed it. TCB, sir.
Yes, that includes your precious iPhone. Turns out, she he IT doesn't care whether you live or die!
In 2011, the National Sleep Foundation polled over 1,500 Americans and found that ninety-five percent of respondents used some form of technology in the hour before bed. That's not great, especially considering new research suggesting that all that time you spend reading Wikipedia's Unusual Deaths page in the comfort…
At this Saturday's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, brilliant teenager Eesha Khare from Saratoga, CA, won $50,000 for inventing a supercapacitor that could one day charge your phone battery in 20 to 30 seconds. My phone is always dying in important situations (Angry Birds), so I AM READY.
Ever since boycotting products became a popular means of protesting in the Gandhi days of divesting from British goods, divestment has become an increasingly effective method to punish the bad guys with the only action that seems to have significant impact in our capitalist society: buying things. Even for the…
If you've ever found yourself grinding your molars because the person sitting next to you in a coffee shop was gabbing away on a cellphone about the previous night's bout of food poisoning from a vending machine chili dog, you no doubt wished that you had laser eyes so you could melt that person into a puddle of…
India, which has been a surprising success story in AIDS prevention throughout the aughts, might be on the verge of a serious health crisis thanks to the more widespread use among sex workers of cellphones, those fragile, rectangular amulets of modern independence. Though India's sex trade used to be largely localized…
Adults these days! According to a new survey, Americans report that they'd find it more stressful to lose their phone than they would to lose their wedding ring, because one is a symbol of an everlasting commitment and the other is just a chintzy piece of jewelry some priest said magic over.
88 public NYC high schools and middle schools charge kids a dollar a day to store their cell phones in trucks or nearby bodegas while they're in class so they can't text their friends emojis during pre-calc. The New York Post says this adds up to $4.2 million a year — that's $22,800 a day from about 120,000 students…
