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Digital, Smartphone Driver’s Licenses are Coming to California

Allegedly “in the coming weeks,” you’ll be able to upload your California driver’s license and present it digitally in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, that is, if you consider getting your ID out of your wallet to be some terribly time-consuming task.

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Android Creator Unveils New 'Essential' Smartphone, Home Hub

Tech nerds have been abuzz all day Tuesday over the release of new details and specs of the Essential Phone, the already much buzzed about new device from Android creator and all around

Art Professor Claims His Phone Was Searched Without A Warrant At SFO

In these ever tense times for civil liberties, we have a new case out of the Bay Area that is likely to ruffle some privacy-protection feathers. ABC 7 brings news of a Bay

Tech-Friendly San Francisco Comes Up Short On Cell Service Coverage

Smartphones are seemingly a vital part of everyday life in tech-friendly San Francisco, and yet when it comes down to it the city's cell service coverage leaves something to be desired. So reports

'Driver Mode' Proposed For Phones In Effort To Curb Distracted Driving

It's illegal to text while driving in California, yet that doesn't seem to deter the many people tap tap tapping away behind the wheel. With that in mind, Consumerist reports that safety regulators

Don't Touch That Playlist: Expansion Of 'Hands-Free' Law Means Big Changes For Drivers

Picture it: You're cruising down Highway One, windows down, with Spotify playing your favorite jams. Life is good, hell — it's never been better. And then: Bam! Some awful track comes on and you

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New Emoji Coming Soon Include Eyeroll Face, Unicorn Face, And Taco

41 new emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium as part of the latest release of the universal picture-based texting array, Unicode 8.0. iPhone users may have to wait until September

Study Proves You Can Never Survive Without Your Phone Again

A new study shows that iPhone separation anxiety is not only real, but it negatively affects cognitive ability. Yes, sadly, as Consumerist reports, just putting your phone in the next room may now

How Many Dash-Mounted Phones Are Too Many? (This Guy's Got 5)

Signs we have reached peak-app? Cabbie in SF running 5 dash mounted phones pic.twitter.com/WVycnmkGuN— Thomas Purves (@tpurves) September 2, 2014 This tweet from Thomas Purves, who describes himself as both

Cell Phone Kill-Switch Bill Heads To Governor's Desk

A draft of Mark Leno's bill that would require all new mobile phones sold in California to come equipped with built-in and activated "kill switches" to discourage theft has passed the Senate and

Fools Spent $600 In Order To Take Break From Cell Phones

It sounds like an Onion headline. But it's not! There was just another one of those digital detox things happening nearby, for all those people who have a hard time separating from their

Sup. London Breed Launches New Push For Cell Phone Kill Switch

Though it would be far more meaningful at the state level, Supervisor London Breed has a backup plan for some cell phone kill switch legislation in San Francisco. State Senator Mark Leno has

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Forgot My Phone'

Please enjoy this very short but poignant film about what ridiculous, alienating, divorced-from-the-present losers we all are when it comes to playing with our phones, both in public and in private. In some

New Interactive Map Will Keep You Off Of S.F.'s Steepest Hills

Let's say you're walking from SoMa to the Marina something we'd never recommend, but hey, some of you are masochists and you want to know what the least hilly route would be. Well,

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Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Just Text Me'

This brilliant new song and video from Keisha (a.k.a. YouTuber soundlyawake a.k.a. New Jersey-based comedian Nicola Foti) reflects everything we've been trying to teach our friends for the last

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Etiquette Week: How To Use Your Smartphone In Public

As we continue with Etiquette Week 2013, we bring you our thoughts on how best to utilize your mobile phone without getting mugged, or annoying everyone around you. Texting Whilst Walking Sure, you're

Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use

On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.

Study: Frequent Texters Tend to Be Shallow, Wealth-Obsessed

Look everyone! A very scientific study from Canada has found that teens who text upwards of 100 times a day tend to be shallow, image-obsessed, and motivated by wealth. Also, they're probably terrible

SFPD Sued By ACLU And Homeless Advocate Over Cell Phone Search

The ACLU filed suit today against the City of San Francisco and its police chief over what they say was an illegal search of a man's cell phone in the Castro's Jane Warner

City Hall Intern in Santa Ana Charged In Bathroom Stall Video-Making Scandal

This is a little out of our jurisdiction, but we love a good techie-perv-news item: A 24-year-old intern at the Santa Ana Public Works Department has been charged with using his cellphone camera

More Reactions, Pro and Con, to BART's Cell Service Shutdown

Did BART Police violate everyone's civil liberties by switching off cell phone service last week, or were they simply acting in the name of public safety? An editorial in the Examiner today argues

iPhone 5 Coming By Summer, Will Likely Be Silver

Here's a little bait for all the Apple-hating commenters: That little company down in Cupertino that used to just make funny looking computers is planning on releasing the next generation of iPhone, the

Brown To Confiscate 48,000 Cell Phones

Call him Governor Viola Swamp if you must, because Jerry Brown just ordered an astounding 48,000 government-paid cell phones - that's around half of those used by government employees - be returned

WiFi/Cell Service Now Available in Transbay Tube

Hallelujah. This Xmas week we're happy to share the news that you can now send texts and surf the web continuously all the way from Balboa Park to West Oakland Station, thanks to

On the Wrong Side of the Law

We're not sure if you've noticed, but as of yesterday, the new cell phone law has gone into effect. That's right: no more talky while driving, unless you've got a hands-free device for