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Amazon foils plot using phones in trees to get more deliveries

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Amazon appears to have stopped a strange plot that used phones in trees to game delivery route assignments. Contract drivers talking to Bloomberg said that they’re now getting more routes even when they’re miles away from the Whole Foods locations th...

Amazon drivers are hanging phones in trees to get more deliveries

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Amazon’s contract delivery drivers are so desperate for work they’ve come up with a bizarre way to game the system: hanging phones in trees, Bloomberg reports.Like Uber, Amazon Flex lets drivers make deliveries in their own cars. Amazon’s dispatch sy...

Research shows answering one robocall doesn’t lead to more

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In an attempt to better understand robocalls, researchers from North Carolina State University set up 66,606 fake phone lines and recorded 1,481,201 unsolicited calls over an 11-month period. Their research debunks a couple longstanding myths, but it...

The UK is cracking down on sales of fraudulent ‘anti-5G’ USB sticks

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London’s Trading Standards office, along with City of London police, are attempting to stop the sale of a device a company claims can protect people against the supposed dangers of 5G spectrum. Stephen Knight, operations director for London Trading S...

Pablo Escobar’s brother is trying to sell refurbished iPhone 11 Pros for $499

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For months, we’ve been following the bizarre saga of Roberto Escobar (Pablo Escobar’s brother) trying to peddle Escobar-branded folding smartphones. At first, tech reviewers like Marques Brownlee pointed out that Escobar Inc was actually just repacka...