HOW TO OUTSMART YOUR SMARTPHONE (AND STAY SAFE IN THE PROCESS)

Not to put too fine a point on it, Geoff Carter at Las Vegas Weekly writes, but your phone is filthy. “The pathogens that have been found on the surface of cellphones—and of course, some people are not going to want to hear this—include Staphylococcus aureus, and other species of staphylococci as well,” says Dr. Terry Else, a professor at Touro University. “Plus E. coli, and a few strains of the MRSA.” If you don’t believe that your phone could host a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, just think about where it, and your hands, have been lately. “Part of the problem…