Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Samsung’s disastrously defective new Galaxy Note 7 has wiped about $25 billion off its market value, with its stock falling almost 11% in trading on Friday and Monday. It’s the worst two-day fall for the Korean electronics giant since 2008, according to Bloomberg data. The blown launch of the Note 7, Samsung’s would-be iPhone competitor,…
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…
Enlarge / Another Android update means another stack of phones that will never see it. cache hit 59:single/related:ee51956cd1ad0e29f24f61e99b0c8480 empty Not all of the big Android phone makers have announced their plans for the Nougat update, but if you look at Sony’s and Google’s and HTC’s official lists (as well as the supplemental lists being published…
Image: Gizmodo NSO Group, a company that sells hacking services to governments so they can spy on journalists and dissidents, exploited gaping security holes in iPhone software, according to a report byLookout Security and Citizen Lab. But don’t worry: Apple just pushed a fix. The New York Times reports: The NSO Group’s software can read…
This is what Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone Two weeks ago, I was on holiday in Turin, Italy and made a boo boo. I forgot my phone in our rental car for a two hour visit to a local outdoors spa (Acquajoy, great fun especially for the kids!). The end result…