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Sprint launches new promotion, offers to halve the wireless bills of customers switching from AT&T and Verizon

Sometimes competition is a good thing. Per Re/code, Sprint unveiled an aggressive new price promotion Tuesday that it claims will halve the bills of customers who defect from AT&T and Verizon in the latest salvo of an increasingly bitter price war. Under the terms of the deal, which kicks off Friday, a customer can bring […]

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Revised DMCA allows for unlocking of handsets, other exemptions

There’s exceptions to every rule and some of them get pretty interesting. Per the cool cats at Ars Technica, the Digital Millennium Copyright makes it illegal to “circumvent” digital rights management schemes. But when Congress passed the DMCA in 1998, it gave the Librarian of Congress the power to grant exemptions. The latest batch of […]

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Scientists looking into methods of boosting consumer battery strengths via millions of tiny holes

Even if you’d like to throw your MacBook or MacBook Pro’s battery through a wall on occasion, there’s hope. Per BBC News, a new battery development technique could allow batteries for phones and notebooks to recharge up to ten times faster and hold a charge ten times larger than current technology allows. Scientists at Northwestern […]