Sextortion email looks too scary to be fake -- Facebook uses VR avatars to go after your data -- Traffic lights make drivers look at the road, not their phones
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Watch out: Frightening webcam email looks too real to be a hacker scam. Facebook is going after more of your data through a new VR project. As a safety feature, new traffic lights are designed to get people to look up from their phones. Hackers set off tornado sirens. A man is lucky to be alive thanks to his iPhone acting as a shield. GPS could be the cause of that fast-draining battery. All these stories and more tech news from the digital world of Kim Komando.
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