SF News California Legislature Passes Bill to Ban or Limit Cellphone Use in Schools California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
SF News 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.
SF News Are Smartphones Making A Generation Of Kids Isolated And Depressed? Adults know well enough how depressing it can be to see your friends cavorting about some beautiful international locale on Facebook while you're stuck at work too poor to travel. And we've also
SF News Ex-Googler Launches Nonprofit To Stop Google & Facebook From 'Hijacking Our Minds' It is not a particularly unique observation that the culture of constantly looking at our phones has spawned an app economy whose emotional manipulation, trampling of our privacy, and spread of misinformation has
Arts & Entertainment Apple Adds Racially Diverse Emoji; Asians Already Crying 'Yellowface!' In the next update of Apple's OS and iOS, there will be new sets of emoji in six different skin tones, in order to reflect the racial diversity of the planet, and iPhone
SF News California Becomes First State To Regulate Lyft, SideCar And Uber Today marks a big win for car-sharing companies in California, including Lyft, Sidecar and Uber: state regulators voted unanimously to create rules for companies that use smartphones in lieu of a hail sign
SF News iPhone iMessages Impervious to Government Wiretaps? [Updated] Well, isn't this intriguing. In a boon for privacy and civil rights advocates, the federal government recently discovered that they can't actually collect text messages from people they're wiretapping if they own an
SF News Facebook Launches Home (So You Can Spend More Of Your Time On Facebook) Thursday morning at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg gathered members of the press to finally break the seal on a long-rumored Facebook phone. More accurately: Zuckerberg and company unveiled Facebook Home
Arts & Entertainment AT&T To Make Outside Lands More Like Terrible T-Mobile Ad T-Mobile created what is perhaps the most dreadful ad of all time with this piece of neon excrement. (Who sends video of a concert to friends at the same concert? Nobody, that's who.
SF News New iPhone, iPad Mini Debut Date (Maybe) Revealed Though interest in the Apple iPhone subsided ever so slightly, we're always curious about the technological wizardry brewing in Cupertino. We're hearing rumors that Apple could debut the new iPhone on Wednesday, September
SF News Berkeley Police Chief Will Have 10 Cops Look For Your Lost iPhone! In January, Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan's son lost his iPhone. We've all been there, down that harrowing and unimaginably terrifying rabbit hole. So, like any nobel law enforcement official, Meehan had a
SF News Stay Safe, Smartphone Users Local media have already reported on the rash of smartphone thefts on public transportation and on city streets. But how, exactly, do these creeps go about swiping your iPhone or Nexus? Simple: group
