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Zurich Apple Store location evacuated after iPhone battery overheats

Not every iPhone battery is going to behave perfectly. An Apple store in Zurich, Switzerland was temporarily evacuated on Tuesday after an iPhone’s battery at the service desk overheated in the middle of a removal procedure, emitting smoke and burning the worker who was doing the work. The incident caused the technician to burn his […]

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Apple acquires real-time capture firm Faceshift, intended purposes unknown

It’s hard to say what Apple will do with its new toy, but it’s been confirmed that it just bought a real-time motion capture firm. The company apparently acquired Faceshift, a Zurich-based capture firm, which has worked with game and animation studios on technology designed to quickly and accurately capture facial expressions using 3D sensors, […]