The Russian army has begun training sniffer dogs to use cell phones and video cameras.

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VIDEO: Army dogs use phones and cameras

An alleged sexual assault of a Texas girl involving nearly 20 people was recorded on cell phones, and a video of the alleged incident was circulating among students in her school district, according to court documents obtained Tuesday.

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Affidavit: Sex assault taped, shared

Maybe you’re better off holding the phone away from your ear, after all: A new study is renewing fears that cell phones can cause brain cancer. Tests showed that cell phones cause increased brain activity in areas near the phone when it was held…

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New Study Stokes Cell-Phone Cancer Fears

Now this is my type of art installation. Xaxier Antin hooked four different printers together, each applying one color to collectively print a book. An 1880 stencil duplicator applied magenta, a 1923 spirit duplicator slapped on cyan, a 1969 laser printer dropped in the black, and a 1976 inkjet printer supplied yellow. The machines came from almost 100 years apart, but worked together to produce an artifact. It all reminds me that our old and new technologies work together, nails and cranes, fire and electricity, cell phones and fingerless gloves. A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history. Read the full story at Xavier Antin . Via BoingBoing .

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A Brief, Working History of Book Production

When I first got involved in left/radical political organizing in the 1990s, I don’t recall any of us referring to our efforts as “phone activism” or calling ourselves “fax activists.” A friend who started organizing in the early 1960s assured me that he never heard the term “mimeograph activism” in those days. We used telephones, fax machines, and mimeographs in our organizing work, but the machines didn’t define our work and we didn’t spend a lot of time arguing about the implications of using them. read more

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Political Organizing: The Machines Change, the Work Remains the Same

Almost two-thirds of Internet users have paid for online content in some form, according to a survey released by Pew this morning. Between October 28 and November 1, Pew asked 755 Internet users whether or not they had purchased any of 15 different types of online material. Sixty-five percent had. They found that most users spend about $10 per month, but the average for those who paid to download or access content was about $47 per month, with most users paying for subscription services over individual file downloads or access to streaming content. The survey results, broken down: 33% of Internet users have paid for digital music online 33% have paid for software 21% have paid for apps for their cell phones or tablet computers 19% have paid for digital games 18% have paid for digital newspaper, magazine, or journal articles or reports 16% have paid for videos, movies, or TV shows 15% have paid for ringtones 12% have paid for digital photos 11% have paid for members-only premium content from a website that has other free material on it 10% have paid for e-books 7% have paid for podcasts 5% have paid for tools or materials to use in video or computer games 5% have paid for “cheats or codes” to help them in video games 5% have paid to access particular websites such as online dating sites or services 2% have paid for adult content Download the full report here (PDF).

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Pew: Some People Actually Pay for Online Content

Investigators say Chicago-bound packages from Yemen were wired to cell phones and hidden inside computer printer cartridges. According to a French official, one of the bombs was set to go off just 17 minutes after authorities defused the device. So…

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Yemen Bomb Set to Go Off in 17 Minutes