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Could solar-powered headphones be the next must-have?

 From BBC News, By Nick Dauk and Will Smale Business reporters, Edited by Vinuri Randhula Silva IMAGE SOURCE, ADIDAS Image caption, Adidas and Urbanista now both make headphones that are solar powered If you are the type of person who is forever forgetting to charge your wireless headphones, help may finally be on hand. It comes as the first commercially available solar-powered headphones are now on sale. The models, by Swedish firm Urbanista and German sports giant Adidas, both have solar panels built into their headbands. In each case the flexible panels are made by another Swedish company, Exeger, which has spent the past decade working to make them light, thin and powerful enough to do the job. Exeger's boss Giovanni Fili says it is both a matter of convenience and, more importantly, doing the right thing environmentally. "Charging - everyone hates it," he says. "But every time you don't charge [using mains electricity] it is a good thing for the world. ...

Twitter sues Elon Musk over $44bn takeover deal

 From BBC world news Compiled by Amal Udawatta Twitter has taken billionaire Elon Musk to court to try to force him to buy the social media firm, setting up a legal battle with the world's richest man. It comes after Mr Musk announced he was  walking away from his proposed $44bn (£37bn) takeover  of Twitter on Friday. He claimed Twitter had not given information about the number of fake and spam accounts on the platform. Now Twitter has asked a Delaware court to order Mr Musk to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share. "Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed and then signed a seller-friendly merger agreement, [Mr] Musk apparently believes that he - unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law - is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away," said the lawsuit. The lawsuit went on to accuse Mr Musk of "a long list" of violations ...