A young Texas girl suffered a fatal shock on Sunday after either plugging her phone in, or grabbing an already plugged in phone while she was in the bathtub, Texas authorities report. 14-year-old Lubbock, Texas teen, Madison Coe, was visiting her father in Lovington, New Mexico, when the incident occurred. Investigators reveal that the teen […]
University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries — a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light. The team also made Skype calls using its battery-free phone, demonstrating that the prototype […]
AST released an advisory after receiving reports of a “telephonic phone scam” targeting Alaskans. The advisory was posted on the trooper dispatch on Tuesday. According to the posting, troopers found in their investigation that numerous individuals have called in to AST seeing clarification of phone calls they have been receiving where the caller identifies themselves […]
Alaska State Troopers are warning Alaskans to be aware of a phone scam where an individual calls his intended victim and identifies himself as an Alaska State Trooper, of various names and rank, and informs the callee, that they have active warrants for their arrest, in this case for contempt of court. In this scam, […]