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Samsung Electronics on Saturday urged consumers to stop using Galaxy Note 7 smartphones immediately and exchange them as soon as possible, as more reports of the phones catching fire emerged even after the company’s global recall. The call from the South Korean company, the world’s largest smartphone maker, comes after U.S. authorities urged consumers to…
Image: WMBF News screens The US Consumer Product Safety Commission just released an official statement about the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7. The CPSC is urging all Galaxy Note 7 owners to stop using their devices. More importantly, the commission also said that it is working with Samsung to “formally announce an official recall of…
USBKill.com If you were looking for a USB stick that “instantly and permanently [disables] unprotected hardware,” you’re in luck. You can now purchase one for a little more than fifty bucks! According to ZDNet, “when the USB Kill stick is plugged in, it rapidly charges its capacitors from the USB power supply, and then discharges—all…
WMBF News screenshot A Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has reportedly exploded again, this time in the hands of a six-year-old boy. The boy experienced “burns to his body,” and is too afraid to be near any other devices, according to The New York Post. “The child was watching videos on the phone when the battery…
Samsung told Fox 13 it was investigating whether it could replay the cost of the vehicle destroyed in the fire. Writing after the incident, Dornacher said: “All I want out of this is for everyone to take this recall seriously and, if you didn’t know about it, please educate yourself before it’s too late. “I had the…
A day after Hillary Clinton fell ill at a 9/11 memorial service, prompting her campaign to acknowledge a previously undisclosed pneumonia diagnosis, the far-fetched idea that Democratic officials could move to replace her as the party’s presidential nominee is floating around in all the predictable places — and at least one not-so-predictable place. Breitbart, Newsmax, Infowars, Lifezette and…
Shellanoo Group founder O.D. Kobo Shellanoo Group An amazing drama unfolded this week in Israel’s tech community after tech startup Shellanoo Group filed to go public in the Tel Aviv stock exchange. The tight-knit community, who knew the company’s work intimately was appalled at some of the claims made in the IPO documents, with one VC calling…
Rather than distance himself from Colin Kaepernick in the wake of the quarterback’s recent decision to protest the national anthem, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York has taken a step firmly in support of him. The 49ers announced in a press release Thursday evening that York planned to donate $1 million to organizations working to…
An article has surfaced from the quagmire of bilge that is The Internet and it has caused, not without reason, a small tornado of outrage. Written as dating advice for “The Modern Man” (a misnomer if ever there were one), it promises a solution to the hot ‘n’ horny down-on-their-luck young bucks of the world…
For how long does Europe’s racist right need to “rise” before it is acknowledged that Europe is racist and this is not the by product of recent social discontent? Across Europe, the media narrative goes more or less like this: 9/11 happened and that brought out a wave of Islamophobia that was used by manipulative…