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In a world increasingly reliant on technology, a pressing question arises: can our dependence on gadgets, particularly mobile phones, be affecting our health in unexpected ways? A growing body of …read more Continue reading Mobile Phones and The Question of Declining Sperm Quality
Learn about the key features, specs, pricing, and everything in between about the latest iPhones announced on September 12, 2023 with the release of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro. Continue reading iPhone 15 Cheat Sheet: Features, Price, Release Date and More
[JR] over at [Tech Throwback] got ahold of an unusual piece of gear recently — a portable Point of Sale (POS) credit card machine from the late 1990s (video, embedded …read more Continue reading Portable 1990s POS Will Strain Your Back
Personal information is going for a song, and the banks want social media sites to pay when their users get scammed.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cl… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #322: When you buy a criminal’s phone, and paying for social media scams
There are few devices that better exemplify the breakneck pace of modern technical advancement than the mobile phone. In the span of just a decade, we went from flip phones …read more Continue reading The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card
[A. Cemal Ekin] over on PetaPixel reviewed the Apexel 200X LED Microscope Lens. The relatively inexpensive accessory promises to transform your cell phone camera into a microscope. Of course, lenses …read more Continue reading Your Phone is a 200X Microscope — Sort Of
What are prisoners getting up to with mobile phones? Why might ransomware no longer be generating as much revenue for cybercriminals? And how on earth did an airline leave the US government’s “No Fly” list accessible for anyone in the world to download… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #306: No Fly lists, cell phones, and the end of ransomware riches?
[Dries Depoorter] has a knack for highly technical projects with a solid artistic bent to them, and this piece is no exception. The Flemish Scrollers is a software system that …read more Continue reading Machine Learning Detects Distracted Politicians
One aspect of working for Hackaday comes in our regular need to take good quality photographs for publication. I have a semi-decent camera that turns my inept pointing and shooting into passably good images, but sometimes the easiest and quickest …read more
Continue reading Using Your Phone as a Microscope on the Electronics Workbench
Convincing SMS messages tell victims that they’ve been selected for a pre-release trial for the soon-to-be-launched device. Continue reading Free Apple iPhone 12? Chatbot Scam Spreads Via Texts