Last night at the dinner table, my girlfriend, out of the blue, picked up her phone, held down the home button and the familiar Siri bong sounded. She said clearly into the phone. Before I could tell ...

ATLANTA - Officials with Atlanta’s 911 Dispatch Center said prank and non-emergency calls are adding to slow response times. With over 3,000 calls a day, dispatchers said only three-quarters of those ...

Feb. 28--A former volunteer firefighter from Nanticoke was charged Wednesday with making prank phone calls that sent his one-time colleagues scrambling to find nonexistent people in distress, ...

“The truth is that at on average 119 receives an average of 5,000 calls daily. Of those calls, about 65 per cent are prank ...

Siri is known to say "boots and cats" on repeat when asked to beatbox and give her sassy two cents about Game of Thrones. The latest Siri Easter egg is saying "108" to her — but you should stay far, ...

Siri has become an accessory to even more bullcrap from the Internet as pranksters have found another way to trick Apple’s digital assistant into contacting emergency services. And it’s only slightly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A middle school prank became much more than a harmless joke on Monday after 15 students went from riding the bus home to being ...

The Philippine National Police (PNP) urged the public to use the country's emergency hotline responsibly as the government ...

The public health permanent secretary on Tuesday asked parents in Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan to warn their children after the 1669 medical emergency hotline in the provinces had been flooded with ...

Officials at the emergency control room, functioning in the Ernakulam collectorate building, have got an additional responsibility — to manage prank calls. When parents give mobile phones to children, ...