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Bad news for RIM: a furious rant from a loyal BlackBerry fan complaining about the company’s ‘demise’ has gone viral.

The unidentified Torch-owner [Ah, that explains it - Ed] blasts RIM with a barrage of criticisms, claiming: ‘l have been lied to and feel abandoned. You have failed as a service and manufacturing company… I would have been better off burning the cash in a money pit.’

Mad as hell, the disgruntled customer implores RIM to ‘listen to your employees, fix your management structure and return to being the industry leader and revolutionary company you once were’, before ‘Google buys you, rips you apart and turns you into their hardware division!’

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Remember The Libertines? They were pretty rock’n'roll, right? Well, frontman Carl Barât has gone solo, had a kid, and no doubt calmed down somewhat from the days when he smashed phones on a regular basis (‘Unfortunately, the last one belonged to my girlfriend’).

We caught up with him to talk about the best zombie apps, the hellish moment his entire collection of Angry Birds golden eggs got wiped, and why nobody who owned one of those 1980s handheld TVs would ever admit to the fact they couldn’t get a signal…

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Ok, so every other tech story on the net carries a bogus reference to Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’. But put aside your cynicism for one second – this is the real deal!

In the video, you’ll see an amazing, transparent touchscreen data interface that recognises your finger-taps using ultrasound.

Created for Ford’s Start More Live event, Dom Baker of Wunderman – one of the brains behind it – took us through the tech…

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Electricpig caught up with Something For The Weekend’s Tim Lovejoy to chat about his vast collection of gadgets, why everything should come with a built-in toaster and holographic TV…

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From Hackney to Hollywood: you probably know Idris Elba as ruthless drug kingpin ‘Stringer’ Bell in HBO’s The Wire, but the A-list actor started out as a pirate radio DJ in East London. We called him up to chat about his obsession with everything Apple, making music on the iPad and why the best place to enjoy an app is the gents lavatory…

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Who said Premiership footballers were spoilt, under-worked layabouts? In an insane tribute to coin-op classic Space Invaders, some of Chelsea FC’s star players decided to bunk off training and erect a 90ft-high interactive wall, so they could play a giant version of the legendary video game in 3D – using footballs as missiles. Read on to watch the video!

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Think of Space WX – available through iTunes now – as Patrick Moore’s head on Siân Lloyd’s body. It is the first real-time weather app that tracks the weather in space, predicting severe ‘near-earth’ events such as solar flares (high-energy particles from the sun). Of course, if you’re standing on the ground, you wouldn’t ‘feel’ the odd solar event. But exposure to such events whilst in a plane increases the risk of an unwanted dose of radiation – rather worrying if you’re a frequent flyer…

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Finally. The first ever Google Chromebook laptop has just been officially outed: say hello to the Samsung Series 5, the first laptop designed entirely around Google’s cloud-based Chome OS.

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