Technically “SOS,” doesn’t officially stand for any of these phrases. It’s the international abbreviation for distress—not to be confused with an acronym (see acronym vs. abbreviation for the ...

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Verizon customers are reporting significant outages Monday morning, which created some confusion for iPhone users whose phones were in SOS mode. More than 105,000 service outages have been reported as ...