Jan 21
Watch as a biker attempts to base jump off Bolivia’s famous Death Road and fails badly. Don’t worry, he survived, but it was really painful: "injuries included fractures in his forearm and cut tendons in his knees."
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Jun 07
PayPal mistakenly informs users they’ve won 500 euros in a comedy of errors
Posted in: Today's Chili
Most of us who receive an email stating we’re lucky winners of 500 units of cash money from PayPal might brush it off as a phishing scam. But what happens if the email looks legit? And what if PayPal was genuinely running a promotional campaign offering that amount to 10 random people each day, as long as they used the service that week? You’d be forgiven for believing it. That’s exactly what happened to some PayPal users in Germany yesterday when they received an official email stating they’ve won 500 euros. So they rushed to their PayPal accounts only to find… nothing. You see, PayPal did actually send those emails, but it did so accidentally. PayPal Germany offered a mea culpa on its Facebook page, stating that it was “due to a technical error” and winners have not yet been chosen. Oops. Maybe PayPal should consider giving that money away anyway; it could stand to improve its image after all.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Next Web
Source: PayPal Deutschland (Facebook)
Oct 05
Sony stops Xperia Tablet S sales due to gaps between display panel and case
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When Sony’s designers put a port flap on the Xperia Tablet S in an effort to make it splash-proof, they surely didn’t count on their good intentions being undermined by leaky build quality in other areas. According to Reuters though, that’s exactly what has happened: a number of tablets have come off the production line with gaps between the screen and the chassis, and it must be a significant proportion because Sony has now decided to halt sales until it can get the problem fixed. The company is also promising to repair any of the 100,000 tablets that have already shipped, but doesn’t expect the issue to be serious enough to dampen its earnings (which, let’s face it, could already do with some time out in the sun).
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