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The $349 OnePlus One might still be invite-only, but the company has started to build its own retail stores in China for those that want to buy it in person. Earlier this week, the company temporarily opened its new Beijing store for a peek; the shop isn’t due to be open to the public until December 20th. The store appears to only stock the company’s “flagship killer” OnePlus One and a number of accessories for purchase. For a company that only just got started a year ago, it’s a pretty impressive move. OnePlus is a subsidiary of Oppo, which makes smartphones for the Chinese market.…
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Your next phone might drop the ugly logos on the back altogether, with President Barack Obama officially signing the E-Label act into law today. The E-Label act means that most of those logos on the back of your phone can be displayed using software instead of on the device itself. This means that future smartphones, like the iPhone in 2016, may drop the majority of the logos on the back. When the E-Label law passed through the House it was unanimously approved and went through the Senate with no further issue. Not only does the act mean manufacturers can drop…
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If the Web looks like 1995 all over again for you today, it’s probably not just you. Intermittent issues Amazon’s Cloudfront DNS service today has caused a number of sites to experience major issues loading content. Amazon’s status page says that Cloudfront is experiencing increased error rates for DNS and that the team is investigating. The issue being related to DNS explains why large groups of users in some regions can still load content and others can’t, as DNS takes some time to roll out. After a number of complaints emerged on Twitter, major services like Instagram and Medium have started to experience…
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