The end of passwords?
Interesting ideas: Instead of a password, devices could look for your phone over Bluetooth. Source: Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to kill the password with “Passkey” standard | Ars Technica
Large study finds no links between cell phone use and brain tumors
Large study finds no evidence that cellular phone usage causes brain tumors. This more than a decade after prominent public health pronouncements that led to calls to even ban Wi-Fi…
EU to mandate user replaceable batteries in consumer electronics
You may have noticed that while you can change a battery in your DSLR camera, you cannot change a battery in your smart phone or your notebook PC. That is…
Some foreign airlines cancel service to US over “5G” interference to aircraft systems
ANA, Japan Airlines and Emirates were among the carriers that canceled flights over concerns that new 5G service could interfere with some onboard systems. Source: Foreign airlines cancel some U.S.…
Apple to restrict major iPhone 13 repairs to Apple services only
Stripping iPhone 13 models down, what iFixit discovered is that Apple has added a small chip (“about the size of a Tic-Tac”) into the bottom of their 13 screens. The…
Many Android smart phones are spying on you and your data
Google sends large amounts of obfuscated data from your phone to Google – no one knows what Google is collecting: Study Warns Android Phones From Samsung, Xiaomi And Others Are…
Australia’s smart phone contact tracing app found 17 potential “cases”
The Australian government says its COVIDSafe app identified 2,827 potential close contacts from 37,668 encounters in NSW and Victoria. Only 17 cases in NSW were identified separately to manual contact…
A year ago, I said smart phone tracing apps had numerous problems and were not suited for contact detection … then this happened
Last week, the UK contact dection phone system “pinged” one half million residents who were then forced into isolation for ten days. Even the Prime Minister, who was hospitalized for…
Canada’s smart phone Covid-19 tracking app found to be mostly worthless
I pointed out in the spring of 2020, and several times since then, that smartphone based Covid-19 tracking apps were essentially worthless and applying tech in a way that would…
The end of smart phone based contact tracing apps
As explained in detail several times last year, smart phone-based, Bluetooth-based contact tracing apps were never likely to be useful. Effectively with this announcement today, Oregon has abandoned it’s smart…