How to cash in before Christmas selling old phones and other ‘e-scrap’

Almost every house is sure to hold an array of forgotten electricals gathering dust in cupboards and drawers. There’s bound to be laptops, iPods and mobile phones you have replaced with newer models, and fancy kitchen gadgets you’ve used once, or never even taken out of the box. In fact, the average household is holding … Read more

Britons vaccinated against Covid ‘may get QR codes on their mobile phones’

Britons could be required to show QR codes on their phones to attend football matches, the theatre and other events, it was suggested today. The unique codes would only be given to those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus, under plans being considered by ministers, to signal they can attend large gatherings currently considered to … Read more

Secure websites will stop loading on phones running Android 7.1 or older from September 2021

Millions of secure websites won’t load on smartphones that run Android 7.1 or older after September 2021, it has been revealed.   US-based certificate authority Let’s Encrypt said a change in its criteria from next September will mean old Android operating systems won’t trust its root certificates.  Root certificates are issued by a certified authorities like … Read more

Jails take on extra sniffer dogs that can root out drugs and mobile phones in crackdown on inmates 

It’s time to get ruff! Jails take on extra sniffer dogs that can root out drugs and even mobile phones in crackdown on inmates Prisons minister Lucy Frazer announced investment as part of £100m package The 176 additional dogs will increase the overall number in jails to more than 800 Dogs capable of detecting drugs and … Read more

Kylie Minogue reveals she nearly recorded a song with PRINCE as she reflects on life before phones

She’s known worldwide as the Princess of Pop, after releasing smash hits for decades. And in a new interview, Kylie Minogue has revealed that she nearly recorded a song with Prince – who is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation – something she regards as ‘an almost dream come true!’  The pint-size … Read more

Gang admit plot to fly drugs and phones into prison by drone

Gang admit plot to fly drugs and phones into prison by drone that ended in death of nursery worker, 25, after 90mph police chase Jamie Duggan, 30, Kye Hardy-King, 28, and Craig Kearney, were foiled in 2016  Kearney’s girlfriend Acacia Smith, 25, was killed in a high-speed police chase Hardy-King was also part of gang which … Read more

Three in ten women suffer ‘tech neck’ by looking at their phones too much

Three in ten women suffer ‘tech neck’ by looking down at their phones too much as a quarter say it’s aged them ‘noticeably’, survey reveals Almost a quarter of women say their neck has aged from looking at their phones ‘Tech neck’ is caused by muscles becoming stressed, leading to shoulder pain A study found … Read more

Test and Trace shambles as malfunctioning phones thwart efforts to find 40,000 missed off database

NHS coronavirus contact tracers struggled to reach tens of thousands of potentially infectious people yesterday after phone lines crashed following an IT malfunction. As workers attempted to catch up on a backlog of calls to the 16,000 infectious people missed from the database – due to an error caused by an outdated version of Microsoft’s … Read more

Lancashire Force orders officers to IGNORE NHS Covid app – and told can only put on personal phones

Lancashire Force orders its officers to IGNORE the NHS Covid app if it tells them to self-isolate – as thousands of police are told they can only download it onto their personal phones (which many don’t carry on duty) NPCC urges police to install app only on own person phones, not work ones Some constabularies … Read more

New ‘traffic-light’ lockdown system that will send automatic alerts to phones is set to be used

New ‘traffic-light’ lockdown system that will send automatic alerts to phones is set to be used to trigger local restrictions Local cases will be used to split parts of the country into one of three categories These will then determine the restrictions in place in each region under the plan This new traffic light system … Read more