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Summer concertgoers are familiar with this dilemma: As you're sprinting across a field to catch the next act, you look down at your phone and see you're running low on juice. Do you keep charging ahead and risk being unreachable post-Kanye, or do you stop at one of the rare phone-charging stations and risk missing part of the show? It's a 21st century conundrum. But thanks to a new wearable smartphone charger currently being trialed at Glastonbury Festival, it might soon be a choice you don't have to make.

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When Noel Gallagher attacked the idea of Jay-Z headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival, you just knew Hova would have the last word. Well, it turns out they’re Noel Gallagher's words. Check out how he opened his set (all of which is available here).

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Stumbling across this story about Noel Gallagher sounding off against a fellow artist has us feeling all 1996-y, when Oasis mattered, and our dad surprised us with a new Nintendo 64. But this time it isn’t fellow Brit-poppers Damon Albarn or Richard Ashcroft getting singed by Gallagher's molten tongue—it’s the untouchable Hova. Gallagher is upset because his beloved summer festival Glastonbury, the centerpiece of Europe’s summer-fest smorgasbord, has booked Jay-Z as its headlining act, and attributes lagging ticket sales (it has yet to sell out, unlike previous years) on the American rapper’s presence. “If it ain't broke, don't fix it," the-brother-who-writes-all-the-songs told the BBC.

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