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iPhone falls more than 16,000 feet following Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident, survives

This is pretty much the ultimate iPhone drop test. While searching for the missing door plug from Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, Oregon resident Sean Bates discovered an intact iPhone on the side of the road. The discovery follows the Friday, January 6 incident in which a door plug used for emergency exiting unexpectedly blew out […]

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Apple, Google to add railroad crossing data to map programs following fatal 2015 accident

Apple Maps will soon begin including railroad crossing data. Following up on an accident last year in which Google Maps users Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez turned a Ford truck, hauling a trailer, where he thought the app was telling him to go, but wound up stuck on the railroad tracks at a poorly marked California crossing. […]