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While we’re still waiting on new iPad Pro refreshes, back in March Apple announced a new-ish iPad in the form of the 9.7-inch model. This isn’t the refresh that we’re sure many iPad owners have been waiting for, especially when it is both thicker and heavier than its predecessor, but at the same time it is affordable which could help attract new customers.

Also interestingly enough for those who plan to keep their tablets around for the long haul is that the new iPad can actually be repaired using parts from the original iPad Air. This is according to the folks at iFixit who found that for the most part, the new 9.7-inch iPad is basically an update to the original iPad, which means that repairing it should not be an unfamiliar process for repair shops, plus components should already be in stock since you could repurpose parts from the original iPad Air.

However note that not every single component can be repurposed. According to iFixit’s investigation, it was found that most components should be reusable, but there are some that can’t, such as the home button + bracket, the front-facing camera, and the volume and power buttons.

They found that to a certain extent the LCD can also be reused, but not without some trade-offs. “An iPad 5 LCD will work in an iPad Air 1 (and actually give it a brightness boost). An Air 1 LCD in an iPad 5 also works, but the display was very dim (~200 nits versus an expected ~440 nits). And the left edge had weird backlight bleed.”

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Earlier this year it was revealed that over in the US, Qualcomm had been hit with a lawsuit by the FTC over alleged antitrust violations. The FTC’s lawsuit isn’t the first that the company has been hit with as previously they were also fined in South Korea, and as it stands Apple has a couple of lawsuits pending against them.

However over in the US, Qualcomm is now seeking that the FTC’s lawsuit against the company be dismissed. In a motion filed on Monday in the US District Court in San Jose, California, Qualcomm wrote, “The complaint does not contain any factual allegations of anticompetitive harm to Qualcomm’s rivals in the supply of modem chips.” Basically Qualcomm doesn’t think that the FTC is able to support their allegations of antitrust violations or competitive harm, and that’s why they are seeking the dismissal.

According to the FTC back when they filed the lawsuit, they claim that the patents held by Qualcomm are deemed as standard-essential patents and must be licensed to the competition under fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms, but it seems that Qualcomm had refused to do so which the FTC believes violates its FRAND commitments.

Whether or not the court will grant the dismissal remains to be seen, although recent reports have hinted that Qualcomm’s “abuse” of standard essential patents is the reason why Samsung’s Exynos chipsets aren’t found in non-Samsung devices.

Qualcomm Wants FTC Antitrust Lawsuit Against Them Dismissed , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Boeing has taken the wraps off its new Deep Space Gateway, a concept habitat that could serve as a crucial component for getting humans to Mars. According to Boeing, the company will use NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) to send the Deep Space Gateway up into space ‘in the early 2020s,’ doing so in four launches with components to assemble … Continue reading

God forgives, but Twitter doesn’t.

A new, cringeworthy Pepsi ad starring Kendall Jenner is making its rounds across the internet, and Twitter users are tearing it to shreds. The commercial, titled “Live for Now Moments Anthem,” co-opted visuals from the numerous protests and marches across the nation in an astoundingly tone-deaf fashion.

To make matters worse, the commercial is trending on the 49th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

“Capturing the spirit and actions of those people that jump in to every moment and featuring multiple lives, stories and emotional connections that show passion, joy, unbound and uninhibited moments,” the YouTube description for the woeful ad reads. “No matter the occasion, big or small, these are the moments that make us feel alive.”

Although the negative backlash continues, Pepsi told Adweek in a statement: “This is a global ad that reflects people from different walks of life coming together in a spirit of harmony, and we think that’s an important message to convey.”

In a strange way, Pepsi did just that — people from all different walks of life came together to rip the commercial on Twitter.

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HAL would approve too.

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