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Apple Maps Accidentally Revealed a Top Secret Military Base
Uh oh. Apple Maps, for all of its blurry, melting world faults, was actually a little too clear in one area: it revealed a top-secret, £770 million ultra-high-frequency radar in Taiwan for everyone to...
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Siri’s In Trouble Because It’ll Help You Get Laid In China
Apple’s virtual assistant has been a little too kind to customers in China, causing a bit of a fuss after it answered questions about where users could find themselves a highly rated local prostitute....
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China Finally Cracks Apple’s Secret iPhone 5 Cable: Here Come the Cheap Clones
Apple doesn’t want you buying cables for your iPhone 5 (or new iPads) from anyone other than Apple, because it charges a fat £15 for each one. Luckily, we can now confirm a flood of cheap knockoff...
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There’s Already an iPad Mini Knock-Off
From the makers of the iPhone 5 knock-off, comes an iPad Mini knock off just one day after Apple revealed its dwarfpad. Hilarious, but also not surprising considering how much we actually knew about...
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Is It Immoral to Own an iPhone 5?
So many things are made in China: DVD players, handbags, adorable shoes, kitchen gadgets, watches, t-shirts, laptops, and more. Some of them are made in happy, shiny factories. Some are born out of...
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Don’t Buy an iPhone 5 Dock Because It’s a Chinese Scam
Apple doesn’t make a standup dock for the iPhone 5, which sucks. Normally we’d turn to our friends in China to do what Apple can’t (or won’t), but in this case, no: purported Lightning docks are...
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Siri Lobotimised in China to Stop it Thinking About Prostitutes
Apple’s Siri personal assistant, which got into a little bit of trouble for suggesting places once could pick up accommodating ladies in China, has had the sex-finding part of its brain removed by...
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Yep, Chinese Lightning Connector Knock-Offs Work Just Fine
Now that Apple’s shoved some security chips in its iDevice Lightning connectors it can pretty much charge what it likes for cables and accessories. Thankfully, nothing stops Chinese ingenuity. And yes,...
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What the Hell Is China Building Here?
Not happy with building mysterious gigantic structures in the desert, the Chinese are now building inter-dimensional portals in the middle of their cities. I mean, come on, what the hell is this 157...
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China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days
If nothing unfortunate happens, China will have the tallest skyscraper in the world in Changsha city, by the Xiangjiang river at the end of March of 2013. Its name is Sky City and it will be 2,749 feet...
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You Can Buy a Fake New iMac Before Apple’s Has Even Gone on Sale
Apple’s new iMac is taking its time to arrive in stores. But if you’re bored of waiting, you can already get a dodgy Chinese fake of the sleek new computer—before anyone has managed to get their hands...
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Samsung Audit: No Child Labour, But So Many Other Problems
After a Chinese labour watchdog fingered Samsung with child labour allegations, the company set to auditing its entire catalogue of factories. Initial results weren’t too great, but now the final...
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China’s First Aircraft Carrier Claims Its First Victim (Sort Of)
Our frenemies across Asia are now a naval superpower, having successfully landed a Chinese jet on a Chinese aircraft carrier for the first time. And it’s lethal — the guy in charge dropped dead in the...
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Which One’s the Knock-Off Killing Machine?
There’s all sorta knockoff crap that you can get from China nowadays: watches, clothes, and things that look vaguely like iPhones. Looks like the cloning factories are turning to a more sinister...
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Sad Chinese Factory Workers Photographed with the Cheap Things They Build
Having a bad job is better than having no job, but there’s no doubt that monotonous, bottom-wage manual labour is the pits. Photographer Michael Wolf snapped this haunting series of Chinese workers...
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Russia and China Are Pushing For More Government Control Over the Internet...
With the WCIT-12 in full swing, it’s pretty much inevitable that some countries’ views on the Internet and the direction they are trying to push it will leak out. In this case, the news is about a...
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Job Opportunity: How About an Exciting Career as a Professional Fart Smeller?
Hmmm, I’m getting notes of sandalwood, rosemary and a hint of boiled cabbage… We kid you not; there are people out there being paid to smell others’ farts and diagnose physical health based on their...
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In China They Have Pepsi Flavoured Crisps
Soft drink-flavoured snacks sound like something invented by a lazy stoner, but apparently chicken wings cooked in Coca-Cola are a popular comfort food in China. So hey, the fact that Pepsi...
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Samsung Denies New Claims of Underage Workers In Its Supplier Plants
Following allegations that a Samsung supplier used child labour in its factories, and an audit by Samsung which turned up no such thing, the claims are back. According to China Labour Watch there were...
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Report: A Huawei Partner Offered To Sell a Whole Bunch of Embargoed HP Gear...
Huawei is definitely a growing force in the world of mobile, but the United States has always been wary of it, even if the White House says Huawei isn’t spying for China. Now there’s been a bit of...
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