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‘Brand New’ RTX 4090 FE Found With Literal GPU Bug
A recent buyer of an RTX 4090 FE has fallen victim to an unfortunate and rare occurrence that is sure to have bugged them for nights on end after a repair technician made the unique discovery of the rare GPU bug. Bugged RTX 4090 FE A technology repair-focused channel named…
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Nintendo Updates Repair TOS to Exclude People Who Harass or Abuse their Staff!
If you buy a tech product and it breaks shortly after, you clearly have a right to not just have it repaired (presuming it’s in warranty) but also to perhaps be a little vexed with the overall situation. What you don’t have the right to do, however, is to get…
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Apple Officially Launches its Self Service Repair Store!
For many years now, Apple has been the subject of a lot of criticism (both from customers and consumer groups) over the, basically, total lack of options when it comes to fixing a product of theirs that is either faulty or broken. – Putting things like screen replacements to one…
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Apple Offers Customers iPhone Repair Kits But the Elephant in the Room Remains!
I’ve never personally been a fan of Apple products. While there are many reasons behind this, reliability and durability have undoubtedly been some of my biggest concerns. It’s a lot of money to throw at a piece of technology that seems happy to break, and worse, Apple has always loved…
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Apple’s Steve Wozniak Backs Stronger ‘Right to Repair’ Laws
In the early part of this year, we saw new ‘right to repair‘ laws introduced in both Europe and the UK that had been expanded to cover a whole host of previously unsupported technology products. Without a doubt, however, one of the key omissions from these new regulations was regarding…
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UK Confirms ‘Right to Repair’ Law But it Doesn’t Cover Everything!
For many years now, there has been a growing push both from European countries and consumers for greater rights to be given to owners of electrical goods. Specifically for their appliances to be more easily repairable and, by proxy, less prone for disposal. Well, following a report via the BBC,…
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Apple Finally Confirms iPhone 11 Touchscreen Issues
It’s been just over a year now since the release of the iPhone 11 and while it has proven to be surprisingly popular with consumers, there has been a pretty significant trend of issues for some users since the smartphone came out. Namely, that for reasons unclear, the touchscreen would…
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iPhone 12 Found to be Only Repairable Through Apple?
With the recent release of the Apple iPhone 12, the chances are that many of you reading this either currently own one or are planning to make the transition at the arrival of your next contractual upgrade opportunity. Following a report via Ifixit, however, it has been found that Apple…
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Apple Confirms Items in For Repair Can’t Be Collected
A few days ago, Apple confirmed that following increasing concerns surrounding the Coronavirus, they would be closing all of their physical store locations indefinitely. While this in itself did seem like a more than sensible decision, I must admit that at the time I didn’t consider what would happen to…
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EU Set to Introduce ‘Right to Repair’ Legislation on Electronics
I think it’s more than likely that nearly everyone reading this has likely experienced that moment when you drop your smartphone or tablet and pick it up to find that the screen has been damaged or, perhaps worse, something has gone seriously wrong inside. On a similar subject, you might…
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Apple Accused Of ‘Locking’ Batteries To Their Latest iPhones
Apple has a rather long-standing reputation for being a pretty poor company when it comes to their iPhone batteries. It’s not, incidentally, that the batteries are bad, but it was for example revealed in 2017 that they were deliberately throttling the performance of older phones under the guise of ‘extending…
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iPhones with 3rd Party Batteries Now Eligible for AASP Repair
Full Service via Genius Bars and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) Here is an interesting turn for Apple. According to iGeneration, iPhones with 3rd party batteries are now eligible for authorized repair. This has since been verified with internal documents discovered by MacRumors, Previously, all Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASP)…
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International Space Station Sends Video Of The Repaired Hole
International Space Station Sends Video Of The Repaired Hole Having a puncture can be pretty annoying. When it happens on a space station though, it’s more than a little annoying, it’s outright dangerous! That is, however, exactly what happened last week. When the ISS noticed a drop in pressure a small…
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International Space Station Hole Repaired With Tape!
International Space Station Hole Repaired With Tape! As you can imagine, having a hole in your spacecraft is generally not a very good thing. Considering we need to breathe oxygen and spaces general lack of it, you can see where this might be a bit of an issue. In a…
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Mikes Rant – Modern PC Owners Have Never Had It So Good!
Mikes Rant 14 PC ownership is very common these days. Be it a desktop system or a laptop, there are very few homes in the Western world that don’t have some form of computer in them. This is something of a technology revolution when you consider that even as recently…
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