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iPhone Thief Confronted In Extremely British Fashion

11:30AM Today | Michael Hession

After witnessing a fellow train passenger swiping an unattended iPhone, one brave chap decided to take action — in the form of video taping and yelling. Oh, the yelling. This could not be more hilarious and silly and proper and kind. More »


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Tiny Foxconn Protest Storms Apple Store

9:15AM Today | Sam Biddle

There was supposed to be a protest at Apple’s monstrous architectural annex in New York’s Grand Central Station today. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d would’ve only seen the usual commuter hell. But the protestors showed up. Four of them. More »


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Apple Is Now Worth More Than Google And Microsoft Combined

9:00AM Today | Jesus Diaz

Following iPad 3 introduction reports, Apple is trading at almost $US460 per share, a $US16 boost. That means it’s worth $US459.82 billion dollars. That’s more than Microsoft and Google combined. More »


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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night

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8:00AM Today | Alex Kidman

Download The Entire Pirate Bay In Just 90MB Arr! Bits of eight!

Glimpse Your Future As An Elderly Curmudgeon Glimpse? Future? Bah!

Broke Kodak Will Halt Camera Production Sad days. My first compact digital was a Kodak.

Do Apple Users Care Enough To Protest Chinese Working Conditions? Would you give up your iGadgets?

Fear The Deer — Nature’s Unstoppable Killing Machines I’d like to say that I never trusted Bambi.


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Broke Kodak Will Halt Camera Production

4:00AM Today | Mario Aguilar

Just a few weeks after filing for bankruptcy, Kodak says it will stop producing digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012. The move will reportedly save Kodak $US100 million a year. More »


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Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

6:15PM Yesterday | Andrew Tarantola

A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social networking site. More »


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Man Who Paid $US16 For House Gets Evicted

11:15AM Yesterday | Casey Chan

Kenneth Robinson, an American hero who found a loophole in the system to buy a $US330,000 house for 16 bucks, has sadly been evicted from his “house” because Bank of America claimed ownership of the property. Dammit. Does that mean there really aren’t any shortcuts in life? More »


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Qantas Grounds An A380 Due To Wing Cracks

9:00AM Yesterday | Jamie Condliffe

Last month, engineers found small cracks in the wings of Singapore Airlines’ A380s. Now, Qantas has been forced to ground one its A380s because of the same problem. More »


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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night

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8:00AM Yesterday | Alex Kidman

Bomb Squad X-Rays Suspicious Package, Finds Cat Inside Schrödinger would be appalled.

Retro ‘Apple’ iPhone Cases Will Be Sued Into Oblivion No Bondi Blue iPhone for you!

An iPhone Used As A Hockey Puck At 130km/h I’ve a feeling this will play very well with a certain segment of the Giz crowd.

How A Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1000 Times Faster Do not stare directly into your drive.

Here’s LG’s Teaser For Its Upcoming 4:3 Optimus Vu That’s one big phone.


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Cop Chases Himself Because CCTV Confused Him With Suspect

5:30AM Yesterday | Jamie Condliffe

On a cold, dark night on the mean streets of the UK, an undercover police officer was radioed and informed that a potential suspect was close by. Keen to do the right thing, he set off in hot pursuit. Twenty fraught minutes later, he learned he’d been chasing… himself. More »