Tag: mobile

• DR Congo’s M23 conflict: Rebels give BBC rare access to a mine powering mobile phones

  July 13, 2025

  The US wants rights to DR Congo’s minerals, but one vital mine is still in rebel hands. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvj986l615o more ›

• Unplugged Mysteries

  June 1, 2025

  Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel… more ›

• Why WhatsApp Matters

  December 1, 2020

  WhatsApp is being remodeled in front of our eyes. Watch what happens because even if you don’t use the messaging app, the changes could reshape the direction of the internet.… more ›

• Google pulls India’s Paytm app from Play Store for repeat policy violations

  September 20, 2020

  Google has pulled the popular Indian financial services app Paytm from the Play Store for violating its gambling policies. Paytm is India’s most valuable startup and claims over 50 million monthly active users.… more ›

• Connie Chan – projector phones

  July 19, 2020

  My phone suddenly feels very small. https://twitter.com/conniechan/status/1284610329721225216/video/1 more ›

• Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Discrimination for LGBTQIA+ Community Worldwide

  July 16, 2020

  Recorded Future investigated data security risks associated with multiple social and dating apps that are popular with the LGBTQIA+ community, and how those apps were being discussed on dark web… more ›

• State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise

  January 12, 2020

  Tens of billions of dollars in financial assistance from the Chinese government helped propel Huawei to the top of global telecommunications, a scale of support that dwarfed what its tech… more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

  December 22, 2019

  Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile… more ›

• Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities

  September 17, 2019

  New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people view time and space, and how battery conservation practices define user identities. https://phys.org/news/2019-09-battery-icons-perceptions-space-user.html more ›