Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Warrants for Phone Location Data

The case involves a challenge to so-called geofence warrants, which permit law enforcement officials to sweep up location ...

NYC parents revive landline phones to reduce kids' screentime without losing social connections

Some families in New York City are reconnecting their landline phones as parents look for new ways to help kids unplug from ...
Android Authority

Gemini for Home feels like a big downgrade, and your phone can prove it

A YouTuber has compared Gemini on Google Home to the chatbot on Android. The video shows that Gemini on Google Home is unable to accomplish a variety of commands ...
Psychology Today

What Cell Phone Bans Mean for Students

In public schools across the country, states are implementing "bell-to-bell" cell phone bans—policies that restrict smartphone use among students throughout the entire school day. As of this fall, 30 ...
Hartford Courant

CT officials looked at what happens when cell phones are banned in schools. It changes kids.

Superintendents in four Connecticut districts that implemented cell phone bans over the past few years are seeing improvements in a number of areas. State Rep. Jennifer Leeper D-Fairfield, co-chair of ...
SlashGear

Thinking Of Switching Your Cell Phone Carrier? Here Are 5 Things You Need To Know

Switching cell phone carriers is such a common occurrence in the industry that it is often referred to as "churn." There are a number of reasons a consumer may switch carriers, including looking for ...
New York Post

We can calm prison chaos — if the FCC greenlights cell-phone jamming

Sen. Tom Cotton and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr are calling on lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow state and federal correctional facilities to use use targeted cellphone jamming equipment. AP ...
WHYY

New Jersey students could soon face a ‘bell-to-bell’ cell phone ban in schools

A cell phone locker is seen at Ronald McNair Sr. High School, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life ...
SlashGear

Here's How You Can Turn Your Cell Phone Into A Satellite Phone

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If you ever get caught without service, you could benefit from owning a satellite phone. Unlike regular phones, they work by connecting to ...
Des Moines Register

No ringing in the school year. Iowa's cell phone classroom ban is law. Will it help kids?

A new Iowa law requires public schools to create policies limiting student cell phone use during instructional time. Early reports from some Iowa schools show improved grades, attendance, and fewer ...
Prevention

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Experts Explain the Latest Science

Ever since we started holding our cell phones up to our ears, there have been concerns that the radio waves they emit could cause cancer. While this makes sense in a Black Mirror kind of way—and some ...