Don’t be afraid of PHADE, surveillance cameras that send your phone messages

If you're visiting a marketplace or a museum and have their apps, their cameras may be able to send you messages by tracking how you move.

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Instagram creepers find solace as story posters won’t be notified of screenshots

There was a testing period of a new notification for those who have just had their Instagram story screenshotted. The test has ended.

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Apple Watch loses Instagram app with watchOS SDK threshold

App developers will need to drop off the watchOS 1 SDK and move onto at least watchOS 2. Instagram, for some reason, will not do that, thus the end of the applet.

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Apple is fixing Siri bug allowing hidden notifications to be read

It's an easy breach of privacy and all someone needs to do to get at it is to take your iPhone and ask Siri to read out your notifications.

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OnePlus 5 users go ballistic over unwanted push notification, company carries on

The latest in a seemingly endless string of OnePlus 5 scandals involves an unwelcomed push invite for existing owners to a survey and OP5 giveaway.

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More Android O features in active chatter

A list of bullet points and plenty of speculation as to where the next version of Android will go. But will all of these features land in May?

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Galaxy S8 could also get Galaxy J2’s Smart Glow

Samsung is likely switching out the notification LED for a illuminated ring and will debut the feature, dubbed Smart Glow, on the Galaxy J2. That we can figure out so far. The Galaxy Note 7 may get the feature, too and so may the

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Smart Glow, notification signal and selfie helper, may be on Galaxy Note 7

Samsung may be putting a concentric twist on the notification LED.According to material obtained by GalaxyClub.nl, we may see a “luminous ring” surrounding the rear camera to replace the single diode. You can assign certain priority alerts, contacts and data or battery usage settings to certain colors the ring will glow. Of course, incoming communications will also get shown off with Smart Glow. It’s an evolution of sorts for the 

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Five smartphone problems you’d think they’d have fixed by now

As fun as it can be to marginalize and criticize them, smartphones are magical pieces of technology. From something as benign as an iPhone to a device as futuristic as a G Flex, today’s pocket communicators are modern miracles of miniaturized intelligence. As I say at the top of every

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Why a top screen edge gesture doesn’t belong on a smartphone

We’ve seen some leaks of the new Windows Phone action center that will be coming to Windows Phone 8.1 recently.  It’s basically a screen where you can find all of the missed notifications, but also quickly access toggle buttons for things like WiFi power, Driving mode, etc.  The method to access this new action center is exactly the same as Android, which Apple also copied for iOS… swipe down from the top edge of the screen. Now, I am of the opinion that copying bad design is bad. Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn’t make it right.  What’s bad about ...

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