Samsung will use Sony batteries for the new galaxy S8

Technology giant Samsung Electronics will incorporate a division of Japan's Sony to its battery suppliers, currently two, for its new flagship Galaxy S8, reported Friday.

The world's largest smartphone maker will use Japan's lithium-ion batteries in an attempt to avoid repeating the device's unprecedented recall in 2016 because of the spontaneous combustion problem of Note 7.

The defect of the devices, which began a few days after their commercialization and which, according to the company's investigation, located in the batteries, has cost the company about 5.300 million dollars and led to its cessation of production in just two months.

Sony started its battery business in 1975 and became the first company in the world to market lithium-ion batteries in 1991, but in recent years it has lost its lead over its South Korean competitors.

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The computer is one of eight functioning Apple-1 motherboards remaining.

Credit: Auction Team Breker

Nostalgic for the days when Apple was just a computer startup and not the Silicon Valley giant it is today? If so, you could own a piece of the tech company's history when one of the original Apple-1 computers goes up for auction.

The device, which will go on sale May 20, is one of just eight known working Apple-1 computers. Auction Team Breker, the auction house behind the sale, estimates the computer will sell for between $190,000 and $320,000. The originally retailed for $666.66, according to Ars Technica, equivalent to about $2,800 today with inflation.The vintage device is "the best-preserved example of an Apple I computer to have appeared on the market," Auction Team Breker. "Not only does this Apple I (serial-no. 01-0073) come direct from its original owner, a computer engineer from Berkeley, California, it is accompanied by an archive of original documents, including the preliminary operation manual, circuit diagrams and even notes of telephone calls with Steve Wozniak in 1977," the auction house added.

The Apple-1 was originally manufactured by Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs' garage in Los Altos, California. Wozniak and Jobs marketed the first 50 units through the retail chain Byte Shop in April 1976, according to Auction Team Breker, and only 200 were ever made. The Apple-1 is part of Auction Team Breker's "Auction of Firsts," which also includes the world's first commercially produced typewriter, a Rasmus Malling-Hansen.

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"Writing Ball" from 1867.

http://www.livescience.com/58347-apple-1-computer-up-for-auction.html for more info

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