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Apple replacing knock

If you’re taking your life in your hands by using a knock-off charger to power up your iPhone, Apple is offering to swap it for a proper one. Following a spate of dangerous incidents involving chargers and batteries built by third-party manufacturers to work with the iPhone and other smart phones, Apple is launching the USB Power Adaptor Takeback Programme. …

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Why the Ubuntu Edge is a success, even if it never exists

The Ubuntu Edge, the highly ambitious convergence device that offers both an Android smartphone and Linux desktop experience, may very well fail to meet its record crowdfunding goal of $32 million. But Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu operating system, is not too worried. In many ways, the project has already succeeded by illustrating support on all sides for the …

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