Don't Count On Your Cell Phone For Help After The Next Huge Hurricane

October 21, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Don't Count On Your Cell Phone For Help After The Next Huge Hurricane As Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast, flooding homes, submerging cars and taking lives, Colleen Marron could only wonder if her family was safe. From her college in Maine, Marron, 20, couldn't reach her parents, two brothers and sister -- who declined to evacuate their Long Beach, N.Y. home -- because cell service in the Long Island community had failed. Continue reading... There's Hating iOS 7, And Then There's Suing Apple For It Marissa Mayer Makes Big Hire The Only Way The iPhone 5S Slow Motion Camera Should Be Used Facebook Is Fixed, So You Can Stop Panicking You Won't Believe How Many People Have Quit Twitter Amazon Threatened With 'Instruments Of Torture' Facebook Is Fixed, So You Can Stop Panicking Facebook Is Fixed, So You Can Stop Panicking Your iPhone Is Now Officially A Pokédex ROHIT SETHI Why the Biometrics Privacy Threat Is Overblown Now that biometrics have officially gone mainstream with Apple's new fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5S, does this mean that our privacy is even more at risk from snoopers, hackers, and identity thieves? Continue reading... STEPHANIE MICHELE Mobile Liberation As we say about men who drive small expensive sports cars, the relationship we have with our mobile phones is implying something unfavorable and comically. Are we using them to show how busy and popular we are? Continue reading... D. R. LIONHEART We Killed Our Television. And I Have No Regrets. We killed our television in the living room yesterday. It happened fast. Since then, we have noticed about a million surprising and wonderful things. Continue reading... JASON TETRO Your Smartphone Could Help Fight Disease Through the use of a common smartphone, we may be even closer to germs than ever, with the ability to not only see them, but also help researchers and medical professionals with applications ranging from disease diagnostics to helping in the fight against global health threats such as malaria. Continue reading... JOSEPH FARRELL How the Chromecast Shows Google's Changing Priorities Chromecast is another step towards breaking the iron grip current providers, like cable, have on content distribution and the living room. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003