A visitor at the Connections Museum works the kind of switchboard system that first connected American phone users. Brian Mann/NPR hide caption
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The email account that journalists used to use to correspond with Twitter's communications team is now automatically responding to messages with a poop emoji. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Workers remove the final New York City pay phone near Seventh Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan on Monday. Despite the fanfare, there are still some pay phones standing in the city. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Who Gets 5G — And Who Gets Left Behind — Has Some Worried About Digital Inequality
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Who Gets 5G — And Who Gets Left Behind — Has Some Worried About Digital Inequality
A deal was announced Thursday between 12 phone companies and 51 attorneys general to renew efforts to crack down on robocalls. John Raoux/AP hide caption
This artist's-concept illustration depicts NASA's Psyche spacecraft which will carry a deep-space laser communications system. JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin/NASA hide caption