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British politician and former Mayor of Caerphilly, Wales, Colin Elsbury, has been ordered to pay a fine for the charge of libel against an opponent. The lawsuit was filed by Eddie Talbot, an independent challenging Elsbury, after Talbot claimed that Elsbury had Tweeted that Talbot had been forcibly removed from a polling place by police. Well, Elsbury definitely Tweeted that, but, unfortunately for him, the person was not Eddie Talbot. Although Elsbury quickly and publicly corrected himself, Talbot took him to court, and in Cardiff on Friday that Elsbury will have to pay a £3,000 fine plus costs of around £50,000. A cursory glance over Elsbury’s recent Tweets indicates that he still may not have the hand of the medium, but we’ll keep our eyes on his stream for any new instances of #twibel.

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If iFixit had been around when God created the Earth, then Kyle Wiens and crew would have been up before the first dawn — Torx drivers at the ready — and grabbed the first sunrise as it came over the lip of the virgin Earth. Then they would have opened it up, photographed its nuclear inner-workings, and then waited six billion years or so for someone to invent an internet to post the pictures on.

So it is of course the natural order of things that iFixit should open up the iPad 2 to find out what is inside. Short answer: not much. Long answer: almost nothing but batteries.

Opening the new iPad is a lot trickier than the last one. Where the iPad 1 used Apple’s usual array of clips to hold on the screen assembly, the iPad 2 front-panel is glued on, requiring a heat-gun, some skill and a big pair of balls to remove safely.

Once inside, you see the batteries, which are thinner and wider than before. They hold almost the exact same charge, though: 25 Watt-hours vs. 24.8 Watt-hours of the original. Laid up beside the batteries is the tiny logic board, with Apple’s A5 chip, the touchscreen controller, the Wi-Fi chip (iFixit tore open the Wi-Fi-only model), memory and everything else. The interior of the iPad really is almost nothing but battery.

Arrayed around the edges, and squirreled away into the nooks and crannies of the stiff unibody case are the various camera assemblies, the gyroscope and accelerometer and the volume, mute and power switches. And that’s about it. Sadly, the one thing I really wanted to see isn’t shown, that’s the magnets which are used to hold on the Smart Cover. Perhaps we’ll see these in a repair guide in the future. I’d also like to see the inner-workings of the Smart Cover itself.

Internally as well as externally, then, the iPad 2 is but a small evolution from its predecessor. An that’s no bad thing. As some wags on the Twitter have noted, Apple will likely make more money selling Smart Covers than its rivals will make selling tablets.

iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown [iFixit. Thanks, Miroslav!]

By now you’re probably familiar with the $58,000 RED EPIC-M and what it can do, but it’s hard to properly admire its hand-machined beauty from a distance. We can’t ship you a unit, of course, but we’ve got the next best thing: close-up footage of the compact 5K beast shot with another RED camera — the original 4K RED ONE M-X. Lousiana post-production company Digital FX lovingly fondled EPIC-M #98 on camera, not to mention goodies like the Bomb EVF and 5-inch touchscreen LCD, and you can watch, drool and share your oh-so-envious thoughts with us right after the break.

Continue reading RED EPIC-M stars in gorgeous vid, RED ONE jealously shoots the footage (video)

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We have no small amount of respect for Samsung for coming out and admitting that its Galaxy Tab 10.1 slate won’t necessarily be the best thing since sliced Apples, but we wouldn’t go so far as to describe it as “inadequate,” which is what company VP Lee Don-Joo recently called it. It’s a handsome, svelte and undeniably powerful device, a set of qualities that is in full show during AndroidHD‘s 11-minute long video of a day spent in the company of a Tab 10.1. Now, this isn’t a hands-on video so much as a commercial made by someone other than Samsung. You can tell Sammy didn’t author it because nobody tries to fit this Galaxy Tab inside a pocket. Jump after the break for the ocular feast.

[Thanks, Taylor]

Continue reading Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 showcased on video, doesn’t look all that inadequate to us

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After being jilted on Valentine’s Day, you’d think we would learn. But having tasted the goods, we couldn’t help but get suckered in by every HTC Thunderbolt launch date rumor — only to have our hopes dashed each time its release was inexorably pushed further and further back. Now, a leaked email and an HTC regional sales manager’s tweet (whose account has subsequently been deleted) claim our lust for Verizon’s first 4G handset will finally be quenched on March 17th. HTC posted on Facebook that the official launch date will be announced “soon, ” and four days from now would certainly qualify. We just hope Best Buy and Big Red realize they face a legion of disappointed (and drunken) St. Patty’s Day revelers should they delay Thunderbolt delivery day yet again. Let’s hope the luck of the Irish finally gets us our LTE.

HTC’s Thunderbolt coming March 17th: survey says… yes! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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