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Phone cancer link needs vigilance not alarm

commentary Last week’s press release from the World Health Organisation (WHO) set alarm bells ringing and had many mobile phone users reaching for their hands-free headsets, but is there really cause for concern? A 40 per cent increase in the risk of cancer for phone owners is a terrifying prospect, especially in a country like Australia where phone subscriptions outnumber …

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Rumor: Apple to make A6 quad

Apple According to conjecture from Linley Gwennap (reported by Barron’s), senior editor at Microprocessor Report, Apple’s next-generation mobile processor, the A6 chip, should be quad-core but only available in iPads. Gwennap wrote a piece examining the structure of Apple’s current A5 processor found in the iPad 2 and come up with two interesting conclusions about how Apple is using their …

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