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HP issued a voluntary recall, explaining that a recently discovered overheating issue made the cords a “fire and burn hazard.”
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In yet another Internet video that sheds light on poor customer service practices at Comcast, YouTube user Aaron Spain uploaded a video this week that details the length of time he was kept on hold by the Comcast retention department. More>>
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The city of Oakland, CA is poised to decriminalize pinball this week after an eight-decade ban on the arcade staple that labeled them as gambling machines.
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Amazon finally launched the Fire Phone at a packed event in Seattle on June 18.
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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, issued a ruling that essentially requires law enforcement agencies to obtain warrants before tracking the location of cell phones.
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The NSA is claiming that its systems are so complex that it cannot prevent the destruction of evidence that may be damaging to its case in a lawsuit against privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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Leaked rumors correctly guessed Apple would continue to change its desktop operating system with interface ideas inspired by iOS. This was a cause for concern, because what works on mobile often doesn’t work on the desktop, as Windows 8 so aptly demonstrated. More>>
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