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RIM: Our BBM Core Switch Failed. Then Our Back-Up Failed
BlackBerry maker RIM has released a statement on the ongoing BlackBerry Messenger service failures, saying that pretty much everything broke at once. And there's now a big backlog of sexy texts to...
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10 Stupid, Crazy, Wonderful Gadget Fails
More than most other fields, technology prides itself on being a hotbed of innovation. It’s easy to forget, though, that innovation is messy, and for every iPod, there are a few dozen portable,...
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Whatever Happened to Facebook-Killer Diaspora?
The first real Kickstarter success story, Diaspora, was a new social network born out of frustration with Facebook’s privacy policies. It surpassed its modest funding goal of £6,500, eventually raking...
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Is Your Nexus 7 Suffering from Early-Onset Tech Failure?
The Nexus 7 became the first smash hit for Google’s tablet ambitions, with the Asus-made device sold for a cheap price and offering what was an extremely high tech spec for the time. However, angst...
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History’s Greatest Architectural Blunders
When buildings fail, they fail spectacularly—and often, tragically. But failed structures also serve an important purpose: To teach engineering and architecture students what not to do. On Popular...
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Kickstarter Winner Blows £80k on Sketches and Moving House, Then Legs It
Well over 1,000 people contributed to the Kickstarter project for The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, which was supposed to be a sort of fantasy-themed reworking of Monopoly. Around £80,000 was raised...
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Sony Says “Less Than One Per Cent” of PS4s are Faulty and it Might all be...
Sony has updated the gamers of the world on the situation regarding the PS4 hardware issues that have been dogging the console’s launch somewhat, claiming that less than one per cent of machines have...
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Microsoft Acknowledges Xbox One’s Crunchy-Sounding Broken Blu-ray Drive Issues
Microsoft’s successful Xbox One hardware launch is now seeing the sort of early-adopter tech problems that also hit US buyers of PS4, with MS forced into admitting that “a very small number” of Xbox...
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Got a Broken Xbox One Blu-ray Drive? Spank its Bottom and it Might Fix Itself
Turn your Xbox One upside-down, make a wish and smack it on a table three times is the latest unofficial advice regarding the Drive of Doom failure issue, with users reporting success in hitting their...
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