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From corded handsets to lockable pouches, a new wave of products promises physical distance from our devices. But who gets to, and under what conditions?
The telecommunications ombudsman has recommended ‘an overhaul of how telecommunications services are regulated’.
Telstra is far from alone in its neglect of key pieces of equipment.
For one thing, there’d be a much higher rate of brain cancers in the decades since mobile phones were widely adopted.
Domestic roaming could reduce the disruption – including to Triple Zero services – caused by a major outage on one mobile network.
The most important lesson for Australia is not to slow digitalisation, but to make it more resilient and remove single points of failure.
If the practice is already widespread, why make it law?
Annual price rises help businesses to protect their profits in uncertain times – but could be driving inflation.
Regional towns such as Dubbo as well as some suburbs on the outskirts of Melbourne have worse reception than more remote areas.
The challenge in using either AI or traditional campaigns for health messaging remains designing accurate and culturally responsive health communication.
Whatever you do, don’t spray it with pure alcohol.
The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but radio noise is blurring the picture.
If your phone frequently doesn’t ring, there are a few steps you can take to solve the problem.
The US economy has always been a mix of government regulation and market forces. The balance between those has shifted over time, but never has one side or the other been substantively removed.
Here’s why I disagree with Jonathan Haidt. Young people have been on a trajectory of worse mental health since before the advent of social media.
Healthy smartphone use depends as much on the way you use it as how much you use it. The key is paying attention to your phone behavior.
It simply cannot be left up to individual teachers to enforce cellphone restrictions in schools without significant support from school administrators and work to bring parents on board.
New processors have been crucial to hosting power-hungry AI features on phones rather than the cloud.
We now have the strongest evidence to date that radio waves from mobile phones are not a hazard to human health.
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Director Radiation Research and Advice, Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), and Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
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Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, The Open University
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University