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Russian Troops Steal AirPods, Give Away Location Through Find My App | The Mac Observer
A Ukrainian man has been found to track the moments of retreating Russian forces using a pair of AirPods stolen from his home near Kyiv.
Ukrainian man Vitaliy Semenets told The Times of London that Russian forces stole his AirPods from his home in Hostomel. Once stolen, Semenets realized he could monitor the forces by tracking them through Apple’s Find My app.
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Chipolo’s Find My-Enabled ‘CARD Spot’ is Ideal for Keeping Tabs on a Wallet, but Needs to be Replaced Every 2 Years
The CARD Spot isn’t much to look at because it’s a simple credit card-sized black plastic insert that’s meant to fit inside a wallet. It’s about 3x the thickness of a credit card, but may fit into many wallets better than a much thicker AirTag. Apart from that, it will work basically identically to an AirTag as far as connecting to the Find My network goes.
The downside is the battery is not replaceable, and will last about two years. So the device would cost about US$35 to buy, and with the discounted replacement program (outside of the USA too?), that would add about US$17.50 every two years.
See https://www.macrumors.com/review/chipolo-card-spot/
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Apple releases Android app to help find sneaky AirTags | The Verge
Apple has released an app called Tracker Detect, which the company says will let Android users search for AirTags or other Find My-compatible trackers, such as the Chipolo One Spot tracking tag (via CNET). According to the app, it looks for devices that have been separated from their owners — if it finds any, it will let you play a sound on it so you can locate it, and it will give you instructions on how to figure out who the AirTag belongs to and how to disable it if need be.
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https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832731/apple-android-app-airtag-search-tracker-detect-find-my
