Cellphones

Virginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in his economics and government classes:— “What did you get on your test?”— “Did you get the field trip form signed?”— “Do you want chicken or hamburgers for dinner tonight?”Clement has a plea for parents: Stop texting your kids at school.Parents are distressingly aware of the distractions and the mental health issues associated with smartphones and social media. But teachers say parents might not realize how much…

In California, a high school teacher complains that students watch Netflix on their phones during class. In Maryland, a chemistry teacher says students use gambling apps to place bets during the school day.Around the country, educators say students routinely send Snapchat messages in class, listen to music and shop online, among countless other examples of how smartphones distract from teaching and learning.The hold that phones have on adolescents in America today is well-documented, but teachers say parents are often not…

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Tens of thousands of AT&T customers reported problems with their cellphone service on Thursday morning, with a map of the outage showing people affected across the U.S.Customers of other networks also said they experienced problems, but rival carriers Verizon, T-Mobile and UScellular said their networks were operational and noted that their users were probably having difficulty reaching people on AT&T's network. At about 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, AT&T said it had made progress in restoring its network. By…

When her cellphone service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way—on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone.“Don’t get me wrong, I like cellphones,” the 69-year-old Alexandria, Virginia, resident said Thursday, the day of the outage. “But I’m still old school.”Having a working landline puts her in select company. In an increasingly…

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The ongoing divide between iPhone's blue text bubbles and Android's green ones has long been a source of frustration and humor among users.In Silicon Valley, entrepreneur Eric Migicovsky co-founded "Beeper Mini" in a converted garage, aiming to bridge the technological and social gaps between iPhone and Android users. The app allows Android users to join iMessage group chats in blue, appearing the same as iPhone users. "What we're trying to do is give people the freedom of choice. You should be able to download any…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a report highlighting the many challenges of the growing presence of technology in education. This report is groundbreaking in its call for corporate responsibility for education technology and in its…

Hundreds of drones smuggling drugs, weapons and cellphones have soared over coiled barbed wire and high concrete walls at the Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ont., in recent years.The frequency of flights has grown steadily since 2018, with 99 reported last year alone, according to statistics obtained by CBC through access-to-information (ATIP) laws.That's nearly 10 times the number recorded five years ago, evidence of a growing issue across the country. Officials with the union for correctional workers describe this…

via 20th Century Fox Ridley Scott famously blamed millennials and their “f*cking cellphones” for the failure of his acclaimed historical epic The Last Duel at the box office, but Steven Soderbergh has gone one step forward and called them “the worst thing that’s ever happened to movies.” The Academy Award-winning director is no stranger to trying out the latest technological trends in a career that’s resolutely refused to see him pigeonholed once over the course of 30+ years, but he lamented the untoward…