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Curiosity Rover’s Wheels are Showing Further Damage
NASA’s Curiosity Rover landed on Mars in 2012 and has since trekked along the Martian surface exploring. Mars’ terrain can be unforgiving so a certain amount of wear and tear is expected, even if the Curiosity rover’s odometer only clocked a total of 16 kilometers total travel distance. Recent photos…
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Verizon’s Network Damaged During Strike Action
Verizon is currently in a bad place, with recent news that they were going to stop supporting and repairing people on copper cables in favour of upgrading to fiber networks being poorly received by those that see it as “no support or pay us more” and with the company only…
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Ever Knocked Down the Wrong House Thanks to Google Maps?
We’ve all used Google maps and then had to guess the last few metres as the marker shows us the wrong location. It’s always a pain but, at least, it wasn’t responsible for knocking down your house. That’s correct, the wrong house was demolished thanks to the google maps marker showing…
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CRYORIG Releases Official Statement Regarding Skylake PCB Concerns
Intel’s Skylake architecture is built on the 14nm manufacturing process and utilizes a thinner structure compared to previous generations which can make the chip flex under high pressure air coolers. When we originally covered this story, there was some confusion about what high pressure actually refers to. Any flex or…
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High Pressure CPU Coolers Can Damage Skylake
Intel’s latest architecture requires a new LGA 1151 socket and features an enhanced pin count. Additionally, the CPUs are built on a 14nm manufacturing process. Some of you might remember that Skylake retail samples do not ship with a stock heatsink which raised concerns about temperatures. Thankfully, Skylake is very…
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LG’s Executive Might Not Be Allowed to Fly to CES
You might remember the incident around the time of IFA 2014 where several LG employees were accused of purposely damaging competitions washing machines in Berlin’s retail stores, one of them Jo Seong-jun, the head of LG’s Home Appliance and Air Solution Company. What sounded like something out of the schoolyard…
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Corning Announces Gorilla Glass 4
Corning has announced its next ‘version’ of Gorilla Glass that supposedly “survives up to 80 percent of the time”. The new glass is touted to be 2 times stronger than any other competing glass product, and has been designed with intention of saving your screen from a big drop. They…
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LG Executives Accused of Damaging Samsung Washing Machines
In what sounds like a very bizarre story, Samsung has accused several LG Electronics employees, one of them a senior executive, of deliberately sabotaging and damaging washing machines in German retail stores. According to Samsung, the vandalism took place earlier this month, ahead of the major electronics trade fair, IFA…
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HP Recalls over 6 Million AC Power Cords
Hewlett-Packard is recalling about 6 million notebook and laptop AC power because of possible overheating, which again can pose a burn and fire risk. HP has received 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting or charring, resulting in two claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property…
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 Turns Out To Be Far From Repair & Upgrade Friendly
iFixit, a site dedicated to tearing mobiles, tablets, notebooks and other bits of hardware to bits in order to provide users with repair guides has wasted no time in getting their hands on the latest Surface Pro 3 from Microsoft. During the teardown, or breakdown as the case may…
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Sony Reporting That The ‘Blue Light of Death’ Affects Less Than 1% of PS4’s
Just a little while ago I was talking about how Microsoft’s latest console – the Xbox One was not going to offer more than 2ch audio through its optical output and how this may put some people off buying the latest console for the moment. There is however news starting…
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