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Unsurprisingly since the Samsung Galaxy S9 emerged, the landscape for Galaxy S8 deals has become even prettier. Even though the successor isn't that much of an improvement on the S8, contract prices on the older phone have gone down saving you a packet over the S9.

Vodafone in particular has picked up the mantle and come forth with some cracking

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Apple-Samsung patent battle revived in California courtApple-Samsung patent battle revived in California court
Image copyrightAppleImage caption The jury will have to consider if Apple's design patents were valued as much as first calculated

Apple and Samsung are facing each other in a California court for a third trial involving the same set of five patents.

Apple was originally awarded $1.05bn (£772m) in 2012 after a

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John Lewis apologises after wedding gift list site disappearsJohn Lewis apologises after wedding gift list site disappears
Image copyrightJohn LewisImage caption The John Lewis gift list service became inaccessible because of a glitch in renewing the website domain

John Lewis has apologised to betrothed couples and other users of its gift list website after the service went offline over the weekend.

Visitors were presented with error

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PGP: 'Serious' flaw found in secure email techPGP: 'Serious' flaw found in secure email tech
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption PGP is used for encrypting various kinds of data - including emails

A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability, researchers say.

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data encryption method sometimes added to programs that

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Twitter fails to take down Xanax advertsTwitter fails to take down Xanax adverts
Image copyrightTictocImage caption The use of fake Xanax is on the rise, according to Pfizer

Twitter and Instagram have been criticised by an MP for failing to remove posts advertising Xanax.

There is evidence the anti-anxiety medication is increasingly being used recreationally by young people, some of whom have

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Xerox aborts $6.1bn sale to Japan's FujifilmXerox aborts $6.1bn sale to Japan's Fujifilm
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Technology firm Xerox has ended its controversial sale to Japan's Fujifilm after reaching a deal with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason.

Together, they own 15% of Xerox and had opposed the $6.1bn (£4.5bn) deal as they said it undervalued the firm.

The decision ends months of infighting, including a major

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