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Swap your old gadgets for store vouchers to cut waste
Millions of old mobile phones and computers gathering dust in cupboards are to be put to good use under the government’s first nationwide instant trade-in service for electronic gadgets. ...
July 30, 2016
Police fight with Amazon to call gadget as murder witness
It is one of the top-selling gadgets; an all-knowing device whose abilities range from answering questions about the weather and playing music to recommending restaurants and ordering groceries. ...
July 5, 2016
TV advert triggered gadget to go shopping
Amazon’s latest gadget designed to make life easier has inadvertently made it a bit more complicated for some users after automatically ordering a product being discussed on TV. ...
June 22, 2016
BA headphones ‘made in Chinese prison factories’
Passengers who have enjoyed the entertainment on British Airways flights may have used headphones made in the bleak and abusive sweatshops of a Chinese prison factory, a former inmate ...
June 7, 2016
Apple can’t keep its hands off the TV remote
Buffetted by faltering iPhone sales, the tech giant is eyeing content producers like Time Warner ...
May 23, 2016
Deal watch: wireless headphones
Apple raised eyebrows this month when it revealed that the iPhone 7 didn’t have an audio jack. ...
May 7, 2016
Mother blogs best
Blogging is fast becoming a creative pastime for Irish mammies – and their humorous and honest postings give them a unique voice in the online world ...
April 24, 2016
The doctor with 100,000 followers
Dr Hazel Wallace works 12-hour shifts at University College Hospital and still finds time to be Instagram’s latest health queen ...
March 20, 2016