The ‘Textalyzer’ test: New York cops could soon be scanning drivers’ phones to see if they were texting

Flickr/Lord Jim APRIL 28, 2017 —The New York legislature has taken up a bill that will make it easier police officers to tell if texting caused of a motor vehicle accident. This effort has its roots in a 2011 Hudson Valley crash, which killed 19-year-old Evan Lieberman. The driver of the car he’d been riding in […]

Chicago lawmakers ask police to use ‘textalyzer’ to prevent texting & driving

Texting while driving can be distracting. To stop the deadly practice, Chicago lawmakers are looking to a new piece of technology that detects whether a motorist was texting while driving. However, civil rights groups warn its use would be an invasion of privacy. Two Chicago, Illinois aldermen ‒ City Council Finance Committee Chair Edward Burke […]

The Truck Driver In A Texas Crash That Killed 13 People Was Texting, A Witness Says

View this image › Authorities respond to a deadly crash involving a van carrying church members and a pickup truck in northern Uvalde County, Texas, on Wednesday. KABB/WOAI / Via AP The driver of a pickup truck that collided with a church bus in Texas on Wednesday, killing 13 people, may have been texting in […]

Google reportedly removing SMS texting from Hangouts on May 22

Welcome to your new Hangout. Google continues to shake up its messaging tools with the upcoming removal of a popular feature from Hangouts. According to an email sent to GSuite administrators and subsequently posted to Reddit, Google will remove the SMS messaging feature from Hangouts on May 22. Anyone using Hangouts as both a Google messaging […]

Android Messages will be new default texting app Google wants you to use

Google is making a handful of announcements related to RCS today, but the piece of news you’re most likely to notice is that the default SMS app Google offers is now called “Android Messages” instead of “Messenger.” Or rather, it will be the default RCS app. RCS, if you don’t recall, is the next-generation messaging […]

T-Mobile begins rolling out next-gen RCS texting in Google Messenger

It looks like T-Mobile is rolling out support for RCS messaging in Google’s Messenger app on Android, according to reports from various social networks across the internet that were spotted by Android Police. RCS (rich communication services) has been hailed as the savior of texting — a next-generation messaging standard for sending text and pictures […]