The Federal Communications Commission issued standards in 1996 that aim to limit the amount of radiation from cell-phones to avoid it from burning the tissue of users but never updated them since then. But cell-phone ind...
"What do you think the largest electromagnetic signature in the entire MEF (Marine Expeditionary Force) headquarters emanated from? The billeting area. Why? Because everybody had their phone on," Neller told a conference in Washington recently. ...
On Apr. 3, 1973, the world’s first portable cell phone, the DynaTAC (also known as “the brick”), was introduced in the United States by Martin Cooper atMotorola. The phone was one foot long, weighed two pounds, and cost $4,000. The first commercial cell phone system was launched...
Vivian Mead, a rising senior in Spokane, said having more after-school activities helps but won’t work for everyone. “There’s definitely still some people who just want to be alone, listen to their music, do their own thing, or, like, be on their phone,” s...
Washington D.C.-based company Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC. said this in a report as the White House is threatening to impose additional tariffs of 25 percent on 300 billion U.S. dollars in goods from China, including cell phones, laptops and tablets. ...
Early cellular networks used a system of low-power transmitters arranged in a hexagonal pattern to support phone calls. This setup allowed for "handoffs" when a caller moved from one tower's broadcast radius to another, but the process wasn't always seamless. Users could experience dropped call...
“People tend to talk louder on the phone.That's quite annoying,” said Pamela Sorenson, a 57-year-old resident of Bellingham, Washington.“I often hear young people talking about personal things I don't want to know about .”(1) They underlined part in the first paragraph means ___...
In 2016, New York state accounted for 1 in 5 of the country's remaining pay phones, but many have since been converted for new purposes. New York City removed its last public pay phone in 2016. While some privately operated phones remain, many of the city's phone booths have since been...
But a new report by The Washington Post (WP) ventures even deeper down the... Parents should limit their child's cell phone use; says federal radiation health watchdog7/17/2013 - It's an all too familiar scene: children, some as young as nine, spending an exorbitant amount of time ...
Then Susan remembered her cell phone in its watertightcontainer in her pocket, and reached for it.But she didn't think of dialing 911, the emergency number. I 4_, she called theirfather, who was 2, 500 miles away in Seattle, Washington on a business trip. Susanexplained: “I thought ...