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Robocalls are unstoppable – 3 questions answered about why your phone won't quit ringing

  • Written by Raymond Huahong Tu, Assistant Clinical Professor in Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science, University of Maryland
Caller ID won't always tell you it's a robot doing the dialing.LightField Studios/Shutterstock.com

Editor’s note: When your phone rings, there’s about a 50 percent chance it’s a spam robocall. That’s not probability – it’s what the U.S. government agency regulating telecommunications says. U.S. mobile phone users...

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