This Wednesday, October 4, your phone will play a sound and vibrate, and there is nothing you can do about it if you live in the US. But it's not aliens or your cell phone rising up against you. It's ...

A message that will be sent to phones across the country in a national test of the UK's emergency alert system has been published in advance as the Government seeks to ready the public for the drill.

Your phone, TV and radio will sound an alarm this afternoon, but don’t worry. It’s just a test. The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to conduct a nationwide test at 2:20 p.m. Wednesday to ...

At 3:00 pm (1400 GMT), most of Britain’s 87 million mobile phones and tablets will emit the noise and vibrate for about 10 seconds. Millions of phones will all blare at once on Sunday across the UK as ...

The national system for sending emergency alerts to mobile phones in the UK will be tested again this September, the government has said. It will see compatible phones vibrate and make a siren sound ...

Phones across the country will receive a text this weekend as part of one of the "biggest public safety exercises" in UK history. It will see tens of millions of mobile phones vibrate and emit siren ...

The national system for sending emergency alerts to mobile phones in the UK will be tested again this September, the government has said. It will see compatible phones vibrate and make a siren sound ...

Millions of phones across the country will receive a message as part of a national test of the UK's emergency alert system. Devices all over the country will vibrate and make a siren sound for around ...

Smartphones these days do so much more than just make and receive calls. Most of us escape into our phones for instant messaging, media consumption, surfing the web, or just aimlessly scrolling ...

The Government has used the system to issue real warnings five times before MILLIONS of phones will sound a siren next week in one of the largest public safety exercises. The national emergency alert ...