Tag Archives: fires

Ever since Samsung recalled, reissued, and double-recalled the Galaxy Note 7, there’s been curiosity and contention over what, exactly, killed the phone. This has ranged from the conspiratorial (Apple is paying the media to manufacture reports of fires) to the prosaic explanation that whatever battery failure killed the first round …

CyanogenMod has been a big name in the Android modding community since the early days of the platform, but Cyanogen Inc. only appeared a few years ago. This commercial entity was founded by Steve “Cyanogen” Kondik and CEO Kirt McMaster in 2013 to create a licensed version of CyanogenMod for …

Media captionThe incident took 120 firefighters to bring under control but there were no injuries On a chilly Monday afternoon in late November, an email landed in my bulging inbox with information about a “potential safety issue”. “Hi there,” it began. “I wanted to make sure you were aware of …

So-called fake news has real consequences, and everyone in the U.S. keeps learning that the hard way. Not just executives at social networks like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter. Or disgruntled and brilliant Weather Channel meteorologists. Driven by misinformation masquerading as news, in the latest tragic incident, a gunman on Sunday opened fire …

Samsung’s Note 7 release and subsequent is quickly becoming a legendary blunder in the smartphone industry. The Korean electronics giant is still conducting an internal investigation of the battery fires that plagued this device during its short life. But manufacturing technology company Instrumental has gotten its hands on a Note 7 …