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How to Text 911 in an Emergency

If you are having an emergency in the US and are unable to speak, you can use Text-to-911. Here is what you should and should not do when texting to 911.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Sep 7, 2019

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More than a Billion Android Phones Could Be Hacked with a Text Message

A major security flaw in Androids has left over a billion devices vulnerable to such a hack, allowing them to be hacked by just one text message.

By Laura Tucker – Sep 6, 2019

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How to Schedule Sending Text Messages on Your iPhone

Apple’s iPhone doesn’t come with the capability for you to schedule your SMS to send at a later time. Here’s a wokaround to schedule SMS on your iPhone.

By Shujaa Imran – Apr 27, 2019

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4 of the Best WhatsApp, Email and SMS Scheduling Apps for Android

There are times when you need to send a message later, making a text scheduling app useful. These are some of the best text scheduling apps for Android.

By Robert Zak – Oct 20, 2018

How to Send Hands-Free SMS via Alexa for Android and iOS

A new addition to Amazon Alexa now allows it to send SMS. This guide will walk through how to send SMS via Alexa for both Android and iOS devices.

By Ryan Lynch – Feb 23, 2018

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How to Send and Receive SMS on Linux with KDE Connect

KDE Connect is a killer little app that allows your Linux PC to send and receive text messages through your Android phone. Learn how to install it on Ubuntu.

By Nick Congleton – May 17, 2017

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Do You Bother with Messaging Apps That Use Encryption?

The focus lately on keeping personal information safe has now spread to some messaging apps that offer encryption. Do you bother with messaging apps that use encryption?

By Laura Tucker – Mar 31, 2016

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How to Block SMS from Spammers on iPhone

The new trend seems to be sending spam by SMS on mobile devices. If you want to block SMS from spammers on your iPhone, here’s how it’s done.

By Khamosh Pathak – Mar 1, 2016

Get Your Android to Read Out SMS For A Total Hands-free Experience

It can be a distraction to view your SMS while driving. ReadItToMe for Android can read out SMS so you can have a total hands-free experience.

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How To Send Text Messages (SMS) From Google Chat

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In 1969, László Bélády and two IBM colleagues published a paging-machine anomaly showing FIFO could make four memory frames suffer ten page faults after three frames suffered nine, leaving generations of operating-systems students staring at the moment more memory became the wrong answer

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In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago, evidence that Neanderthals had walked 336 metres into darkness with fire and built architecture deep underground long before modern humans reached Europe

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Otto von Bismarck was 74 when Germany adopted the world’s first national old-age social insurance program in 1889, setting the pension age at 70 after years of fighting socialists with bans, laws, and a promise few workers would live long enough to use

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When cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov stepped out of his Soyuz capsule in March 1995 after 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, doctors recorded him at several centimetres above his pre-flight height, and his spine had become so unaccustomed to gravity that the recovery team carried him to a chair rather than risk the compression of letting him walk.

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When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.

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