Given the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid, you should know what to do when it happens (because it will).

It fell in the toilet. Your clumsy partner knocked a glass of water onto it. You forgot it was in your pocket when you jumped into the pool. That's just a few of the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid.

Fortunately, waterproofing has become mostly standard on modern phones. New iPhones, Samsung Galaxy devices, and Google’s newest Pixel phones all feature some degree of water resistance or waterproofing. How well a phone resists water is measured on an IP (or Ingress Protection) scale. If your phone is rated with a high number, like IP67 or IP68 protection, congratulations, it’s probably going to be fine! But if it’s got a lower rating, or none at all, you should prepare for the worst before you start chilling in the hot tub with your trusty Sidekick.

So when your phone decides to take a dive, as soon as you're done freaking out, you'll probably begin frantically tapping all the buttons, blowing on it, or blasting it with a hair dryer to quickly get rid of all that water. While those are all well-meaning actions, guess what? Totally the wrong approach. Here's the right way to rescue your water-damaged smartphone.

San Francisco, Oakland, and other cities have enacted moratoriums on government use of the tech. New York looks like a harder sell.

Civil rights activists have successfully pushed for bans on police use of facial recognition in cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and Somerville, Massachusetts. Now, a coalition led by Amnesty International is setting its sights on the nation’s biggest city—New York—as part of a drive for a global moratorium on government use of the technology.

Amnesty’s #BantheScan campaign is backed by Legal Aid, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and AI for the People, among other groups. After New York, the group plans to target New Delhi and Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia.

“New York is the biggest city in the country,” says Michael Kleinman, director of Amnesty International's Silicon Valley Initiative. “If we can get New York to ban this technology, that shows that it's possible to ban it almost anywhere.”

It’s the one-year anniversary of players creating custom drinks and having conversations with vampires, werewolves, and more in this narrative-driven game.

The premise of Coffee Talk is simple. It takes place at night within a coffee shop in Seattle. As the constant rain pours down, a variety of customers—mostly regulars—order hot drinks and lament their personal concerns. A reporter worries about deadlines. A couple fights about what their family thinks of their relationship. A mermaid from Atlantis struggles to obtain a US visa for her research work in computer graphics technology. A police officer hopes no one notices he’s taking extended breaks. A hospital admissions officer notes a spreading virus.

Coffee Talk—from Toge Productions, a video game developer based in Indonesia—was released on January 29 of last year, a little more than a month before the world began to go into Covid-related lockdown. The game quickly gained a devoted following with its easygoing gameplay, which features the user as the lone barista and café owner, whose only objectives are to make conversation and hot drinks.

Despite the game’s similarities to the real-world events of 2020, it had been in development for years. The idea originated at Toge’s annual Game Jam in 2017, a two-week-long internal creative session where all team members—even those not involved in development—could work on potential games.