Every way your phone tracks your location - and how to stop it

Your smartphone could be broadcasting your location without you knowing it. Find out how this happens and how to keep your ...

Python hunters captured 8,000 pounds of snake. Meet their leader

A team of Burmese python hunters caught a record breaking 8,000 pounds in snake this season. Meet the man leading the crusade ...

Your Android phone keyboard may be tracking your inputs - how to check (and 2 ways to stop it)

Your Android keyboard may be collecting more than you realize. Here are two ways to take back your privacy, but I only trust ...

Most parents track their 18-25-year-old kids on their smartphones. Is that healthy?

A new survey from the University of Michigan asks parents about their use of technology to track their adult children, ages 18-25, including using 'always on' location tracking on their cellphones.

Python egg hunt: Florida elimination program adds new reward category

The South Florida Water Management District is now rewarding hunters for removing python eggs and active nests from the ...
The Hindu

Police trace missing phone in few hours

An iPhone, worth around ₹1.16 lakh, that went missing at Meenambakkam Airport was traced within a few hours and handed back to its owner. Kakarla Manish, 28, son of Narayana Rao, a resident of Krishna ...
The New York Times

Woman With No Right Hand Is Pulled Over for Using Phone in Her Right Hand

Her case was, of course, dismissed. By Mark Walker In February, a sheriff’s deputy was working on traffic enforcement in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., when he stopped a 36-year-old woman named Kathleen ...
Business Insider

The same location data that helps apps and advertisers track everyday phone users could be putting US troops at risk

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. US troops could be at risk of being targeted by enemies using commercial location data from their ...
New York Magazine

59 Actually Useful Tips for Using Your Phone (a Little) Less

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Amid keeping up with family group texts, friend-group texts, friend-group-going-on-vacation group texts, ...
The Washington Post

Over half of teens are losing critical sleep to phone use after midnight

There’s an increasingly common refrain that Connecticut child and family therapist Kerri Anderson hears from concerned parents of tweens and teens: They’re on their phone at night, the parents tell ...
MIT Technology Review

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month ...
Gizmodo

Why Humans Are Obsessed With Numbers Too Big to Understand

One subway ride in NYC costs $3. Gizmodo has been around for 24 years. The Sun is just one of some several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way, which is also just one of some trillions of galaxies ...