By tracing the location of millions of devices, Google has mapped the pandemic response at a scale never seen before.
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Mobile phones – Análisis y Comentarios
At least two thirds of mobile phones are contaminated with bacteria or viruses, but most people never clean them.
Phones sometimes serve as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts - a growing feature of many relationships and conflicts.
Our mobile phone’s location data could be a valuable tool to help track and trace the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. The government has the legal power to do it, given what’s at stake.
Parents shouldn’t fear putting tech under the tree. In fact, it could bring families closer together.
Data protection policies focus on human rights. But the exercise of our free will is increasingly being hindered.
Trials of the program found about 5% of offending drivers used their mobile phone with both hands, while the vehicle was moving.
But out-of-date kit, lack of access to digital technologies and expensive mobile broadband packages can all act as barriers to being able to operate successfully in the digital world.
Should we be concerned about the health effects of 5G? The short answer is no – there’s no substantiated evidence that the electromagnetic energy used by mobile telecommunications causes harm.
Banning mobile phones in school may seem sensible, but research and similar moves elsewhere suggest a blanket ban may introduce some problems.
Backpacking is growing and West African countries such as Ghana need to actively attract them.
In sub-Saharan Africa there are more people with mobile phones than access to electricity, and their data could be useful.
Pagers may be old school, but they have many advantages over mobile phones.
Every device that you use, every company you do business with, every online account you create – they all collect data about you and analyze it to figure out minute details of your life.
Philip Pullman can help us understand what smartphones are doing to people – here’s how.
Phones’ functions go far beyond making calls these days. Here’s the basics on why you can use some features and not others – and why planes may someday soon be filled with passengers yakking on phones.
Without their devices, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors.
5G is similar to existing mobile networks, but with key differences in hardware and software. And we still need to work out who will build this infrastructure in Australia.
SIM cards link accounts to handsets. They keep communications private. They store messages. Although small and simple, they are a big part of modern mobile phone systems.
New tools to help people use their smartphones in less detrimental ways are a good start, but could be even better at protecting users’ well-being.
Four out of five experts say we shouldn’t ban mobile phones in classrooms.
People’s most private information isn’t on paper locked in desks anymore – it’s online, stored on corporate servers. The Supreme Court now says some privacy protections cover that data.
Smart phones are educational – and a big part of students’ futures.
E-commerce companies should deliberately build systems that are structured to provide supportive business environments for small and medium enterprises.
Paradoxically, people who know the real causes of cancer are also the most likely to believe in mythical causes of it.