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The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted 5-2 in favor of banning cellphones and social media use during the day amid outcry from educators.

A Colorado high school is making headlines for its new method to get kids to get off of their phones and pay attention in class.

A massive AT&T network outage left many thousands of customers across the U.S. without cell service or internet access Thursday morning. Lesser outages in the Verizon and T-Mobile cell networks have also been widely reported.

“We are going to ban phones across New Zealand in schools. We want our kids to learn and we want our teachers to teach,” he said.

Fatherless children in the modern era are like a “cyborg generation” and are uniquely vulnerable to moral corruption pushed via mobile digital devices, former NFL player Jack Brewer warned.

Alec Baldwin has, at long last, turned his phone into the New Mexico authorities investigating the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) accidentally sent an emergency alert to Nebraskans’ cellphones after 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday. 

In a recent exclusive interview, the Wall Street Journal spoke to the 21-year-old behind the recent T-Mobile hack that saw the data of 50 million customers stolen. The hacker claims that “Generating noise was one goal.”

An Illinois man who thought he was providing phones to help the Islamic State commit attacks was sentenced Friday to 13 and a half years in prison.

The opacity of the Chinese Communist government obliges responsible outside observers to look for clues to the truth of the coronavirus epidemic, instead of merely repeating official information without question. The official count from China is 3,277 fatalities from 81,171 infections as of Tuesday, but the Epoch Times noted the troubling disappearance of some 21 million cell phone accounts in China over the past three months – an unprecedented decline that hints at more fatalities than Beijing is prepared to admit.

AG William Barr told reporters on Monday that Apple needs to help investigators gain access to the phones used in a December terror attack.

IBM Security Global Managing Partner Charles Henderson spoke to Forbes about how even charging cables can be used to compromise your phone.

Pope Francis said that mobile phones can become addictive, hindering rather than helping authentic communication, in an address to students Saturday.

March 27 (UPI) — First-year Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury will allow players to have cellphone breaks every 20 or 30 minutes during team meetings.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced this week that the agency would “consider regulatory intervention” unless phone companies “implement strong caller ID authentication” to battle robocalls.

Bill and Melinda Gates issued their annual letter on Tuesday, revealing global philanthropic accomplishments in the past year and outlining what they hoped to accomplish this year, including helping people understand “what it will take to stop climate change.”

A source speaking to TMZ, however, says Smollett did not refuse to turn over his phone records and “is in the process of gathering them.”

Many Americans were startled — and some were annoyed — when the Trump administration sent a “presidential alert” test to 225 million wireless telephones on Wednesday.

Many of the 1,374 drones seemed to be confused, marring Tuesday’s high-tech light show celebrating Chinese Labor Day and turning some of the images into a glittering mess in the sky.

A deal several years in the works may finally be happening if government regulators do not prevent the massive $26.5 billion merger of major wireless providers T-Mobile and Sprint.

Penn State University has decided to reinvent its 98-year-old “Outing Club” after determining that the club’s open-air hiking activities exceed the school’s “threshold of acceptable risk” for students.

Iran and North Korea’s athletes were initially denied free cell phones at 2018 Olympics in South Korea because of sanctions in place against those countries.

The California Department of Public Health has warned the public long-term exposure to cell phones could cause health concerns, advising citizens to take steps such as keeping devices away from their beds at night.

Pope Francis urged the faithful—including bishops and priests—to put away their cell phones during Mass and to focus on what is going on.

Israeli prison officials have intercepted a shipment of cellphones being sent to Hamas prisoners.

On Monday, the government of India banned the importation of milk products, steel, and some electronic devices from China, citing “quality concerns.”

From the UK Telegraph comes word of a study that demonstrates men who keep their cell phones in their pockets, close to their testicles, risk “cooking” their sperm, possibly making it difficult for them to have children.

Partner Communications, Israel’s second-largest mobile phone operator, said on Tuesday it has notified French telecoms group Orange of its decision to terminate its Orange brand license agreement.

The FBI, alerted by local law enforcement agencies, has investigated several bulk purchases of disposable cell phones in the state of Missouri, which has prompted fears of terrorism.

San Berardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik took some steps to clean up their online footprint before launching the attack.

Where there is no family meal together, there is no family, Pope Francis told the thousands gathered in Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, urging his hearers to put away their cell phones and protect family dinners as a precious way to bind the family together.

In a controversial vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to “Ensuring Just, Reasonable, & Fair Rates for Inmate Calling” and would place a cap on the amount of money that communications companies charge convicts to make phone calls in jails and prisons across the country.

Cell phones have become so popular that only the most dire medical findings would be likely to significantly reduce their use, but the financial and legal fallout from product liability lawsuits could deliver a major blow to the industry, with one likely result being a significant increase in the cost of cell phones, from both redesigns meant to minimize potentially harmful radiation, and the cost of major lawsuits. Who knows what other sorts of nanny interventions we could face down the line? Phones treated like packs of cigarettes, slathered with warning labels? Mandatory warning messages piped into the ears of users when they’ve been on the phone too long?

It’s been compared to the huge “Heartbleed” bug that panicked the Internet last year. It could prove to be an even worse problem than Heartbleed was, because while devising and distributing fixes for that problem was hardly an easy task, it wasn’t as difficult as updating the operating system on some 950 million cell phones from various providers.

The Obama Administration has dropped a plan to outsource the storage of cell-phone metadata to third-party vendors, but the Surveillance State is still very much interested in that data. From a public-relations standpoint, the goal of these post-Snowden reform proposals is to erase the image of phone companies “giving our phone data to the government.” If the companies are storing the data themselves and making it accessible to the government, the public’s comfort level with the process might increase.