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Texting while driving is a major problem the world over, one that’s spurred several public safety campaigns including Werner Herzog’s recent hard hitting documentary. Given the inherent danger of texting while driving, doing it while you’re also asleep can’t be very safe. Somehow a woman in New Zealand managed to drive for hours in her…
If you’re watching live TV, a commercial break is a great time to take care of brief tasks. Once the ads starts, you’ve got a couple of minutes to shoot off an email, take out the trash or (let’s be honest here) grab another beer and some chips. But you always run the risk of…
Alleged phone thief Hafid is the star of a tumblr photoblog, and he doesn’t even know it. The story of how he became an unwitting Internet star begins with an early morning skinny dip in the Mediterranean. After a night of partying, a group of tourists decided to go for a naked swim in the warm…
Motorola finally revealed its Moto X today. It’s a beautifully designed device and one of its niftiest features is the insane level of customization you have in the way your device looks. The Moto Maker site is essentially a wizard that allows Moto X customers to customize every detail of their new phone. You can…
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled this week that cell phone location data is not protected by the Fourth Amendment and can be accessed by authorities without a search warrant, according to PC World. The ruling claims this information is a business record owned by the carriers and can be turned…
While smartphones today provide language translation options, they can sometimes be awkward and hard to use when stuck in a situation where time is of the essence. A new peripheral called Sigmo is looking to change all that, by providing a universal translator housed in a small plastic box. The device contains both a microphone…
Instagram’s inclusion of video on their service last month has helped the service see a huge boon in traffic, rivaling that of YouTube and Vine last July 4th. A report from Flash Networks shows Instagram video hits from that day rising slightly above YouTube traffic, and rising far and beyond Vine’s traffic for that day.…
Android users have been enjoying Google Maps’ built in transit tracking feature for years now, but today a popular iOS app provides another option for Android users’ transit needs. Transit App went live today in the Google Play Store. A free download, Transit App works in 43 cities in the U.S. and Canada (you can…
Moscow Metro police chief Andrei Mokhov told Russian newspaper Izvestia that his department will soon have a new tool to locate stolen mobile phones. According to the report, the police will start installing SIM reading devices in Moscow’s subway systems. The devices will read the SIM cards inside a cell phone and check them against…
Starbucks customers in Silicon Valley will now be able to charge their mobile devices wirelessly. Starbucks is putting Duracell Powermat wireless charging devices in its tables at 10 Silicon Valley locations, which are compatible with devices that utilize the PMA wireless charging standard. “More and more customers are using Starbucks as their home base and…