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Samsung Galaxy S8 Rumors: What to Believe [Updated]

Samsung has dominated the Android phone market for at least a half-decade, but the Galaxy Note 7 debacle last year lost the company goodwill with customers after its phones exploded in pants, hotel rooms, airplanes, and elsewhere. Now, in the wake of a global recall that will reportedly cost the company some $5 billion in…

Gadgets Michael Nunez

Samsung Proudly Declares Its One-Year-Old Phone Incredible [Updated]

Mobile World Congress is currently happening in Barcelona, and everyone over there is very busy shotgunning sangria and talking about all the announced new phones. Like the LG G6 with its wacky aspect ratio and the Nokia 3310 with its nostalgic design. No one is talking about Samsung phones, because Samsung did not announce a…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Samsung’s Latest Surface-Style Laptops Look So Nice You Might Forget the Exploding Phones

Less than six months after Samsung’s exploding phone debacle the company is at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. MWC has sometimes been the venue where Samsung’s announces updates to its flagship Galaxy phone brand, but after the exploding phones, and with the company’s chief in the clink, a decision was clearly made to focus…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Samsung’s New Chromebook Is a Nearly Perfect Budget Laptop

I was working on the new Samsung Chromebook Pro, furiously putting together a post that needed to go up stat. The final touch was an image, but I needed to edit it, and I didn’t want to reach for my normal work machine. So I popped it open in the Adobe Lightroom Android app, flipped…

Reviews Alex Cranz

Samsung’s Battery Factory Caught on Fire Because of Course It Did

Just when you almost forgot about what a shitty time Samsung’s been having, a literal garbage fire broke out at the company’s battery supplier in Tianjin, China. The cause? Discarded faulty batteries. Reuters reports that it was just a “minor fire,” but we all know that this is a major “fuck you” for the company…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes

TV Maker Vizio to Pay Out Millions After Secretly Collecting Customer Data

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has reached a settlement with Vizio, which it alleged misled customers about what data its smart TVs were collecting. Vizio agreed to pay $2.2 million in penalties, including $1.5 million to the FTC and $1 million to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, with $300,000 suspended.…

Gadgets Libby Watson

Samsung Scores That Sweet, Sweet Trump Tweet

It’s a big day for South Korean tech company Samsung, who managed to cop a shoutout from Donald Trump on Twitter this afternoon. Does anyone else smell money? Buy buy buy! Conventional wisdom in recent weeks states that Donald Trump’s tweets have predictable results. If he, the sitting President of the United States, tweets favorably…

Gadgets Avery Ellis

Samsung Finally Releases Note 7 Disaster Autopsy

As promised, Samsung has revealed the results of its investigation into the spate of Galaxy Note 7s that caught on fire. The big takeaway from the investigation is that the phone itself was fine—the quick-charging mechanism inside the phone and the USB-C connector had no role in the exploding phones. Instead, there were a number…

Gadgets Christina Warren

Samsung Will Blame Battery Size for Note 7 Explosions

Samsung will finally tell us why the Galaxy Note 7 exploded at a press conference on Sunday night (Monday morning, South Korea time). According to The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, the company’s months-long investigation will lay blame on the size of the batteries used in the phone. Ahead of the recall, there was a…

Gadgets Christina Warren

Scientists Develop Lithium-Ion Battery That Doesn’t Burst Into Flames

Lithium-ion batteries are currently one of the biggest problems in the tech world. The ubiquitous power source has an annoying tendency to burst into flames. But researchers at Stanford University believe they may have found a solution with a built-in flame retardant that doesn’t harm the battery’s performance. https://gizmodo.com/every-phone-has-the-potential-to-explode-1786545025 The Li-ion battery is great for…

Gadgets Rhett Jones

Top Samsung Exec Faces Arrest in Massive Corruption Scandal

South Korea is in political chaos after the recent impeachment of its President, Park Geun-hye, and now, the charges of corruption are spreading to the highest levels of Samsung. A prosecutor is seeking the arrest of the company’s vice chairman and de facto leader, Jay Y. Lee. Samsung’s official chairman, Lee Kun-hee, has been out…

Gadgets Rhett Jones

Airlines Don’t Have to Warn You About Explodey Galaxy Note 7s

Is there anybody left who doesn’t know you can’t take the Galaxy Note 7 on an airplane? The Department of Transportation thinks not. As of Tuesday, the FAA says that airlines no longer have to make pre-boarding announcements concerning the explodey—and banned—nature of the device. You may recall that back in October, Feds banned the…

Gadgets Christina Warren

In 2017 the TV Is Just a Fancy Ass Computer Display

We’ve seen some incredible TVs at CES this year: Stunning screens that practically melt your eyeballs. But the real stars of the show haven’t been the displays. Instead, the TVs are remarkable for their designs. The coolest TVs of CES 2017 pulled all the guts of the TV out of the display hardware, and in…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Samsung’s New Chromebook Knows What You Want to Write Before You Do

Google knows who I want to email before I email them. It knows what I want to type before I type it. It even knows where I want to drive to before I drive. So it was only a matter of time before Google figured out what I wanted to write with my pen before…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead

If you weren’t watching Samsung’s TV event and LG press conference you might have missed it. The curved TV, once considered the whizzbang tech that would save televisions, is dead. Not quite in the ground, but no longer the darling of its makers. The curved TV is being quietly shuffled away from the limelight to…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

These Are the Only Cables Coming Out of Samsung’s New TV

The idea is so simple it’s kind of amazing no TV maker thought of it before. A TV mounted on the wall should, theoretically, look gorgeous, but the tangle of cords jutting out of the back of the TV, pushing it away from the wall and then dangling down to wherever the cable box, PS4,…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Samsung’s New Washer Lets You Drop Two Loads at Once

The worst part of doing laundry isn’t the folding or the sorting or the inevitable ironing because you piled it all on that one chair in your bedroom instead of hanging it in your closet. It’s the time spent doing load after load of laundry. Samsung wants to change that with a new system that…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Samsung’s New Robot Vacuum Cleaner Looks Like Darth Vader

Samsung has a new robot vacuum cleaner, and its most notable feature might just be that it bears a very strong resemblance to a Sith Lord. This Empire-loving vac will be formally introduced at CES 2017 and will ship some time in March. When it comes to performance, the POWERbot VR7000 should be very similar…

Gadgets Christina Warren

Samsung’s New Beauty Products Are Very Judgmental

The world of skincare tech is awash with snake oil products that promise to clear your skin: Chunky plastic masks that make you sweat or try to vibrate the dirt right out of your pores; face “belts” that lift the wrinkles right off your face. They’re usually more commonly found at the drug store than…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Holiday Flight Canceled After Jabroni Names Wi-Fi Network ‘Galaxy Note 7’

This week, one Virgin America flight was delayed and another was reportedly canceled after crew members discovered a wi-fi hotspot named “Samsung Galaxy Note 7” mid-flight. Ultimately, however, no Note 7 was found on the plane, as the network belonged to another device named to resemble the banned smartphone. According to one passenger, the trouble…

Gadgets Hudson Hongo

Samsung Galaxy S8 Rumors: What to Believe [Updated]

Samsung Proudly Declares Its One-Year-Old Phone Incredible [Updated]

Samsung’s Latest Surface-Style Laptops Look So Nice You Might Forget the Exploding Phones

Samsung’s New Chromebook Is a Nearly Perfect Budget Laptop

Samsung’s Battery Factory Caught on Fire Because of Course It Did

TV Maker Vizio to Pay Out Millions After Secretly Collecting Customer Data

Samsung Scores That Sweet, Sweet Trump Tweet

Samsung Finally Releases Note 7 Disaster Autopsy

Samsung Will Blame Battery Size for Note 7 Explosions

Scientists Develop Lithium-Ion Battery That Doesn’t Burst Into Flames

Top Samsung Exec Faces Arrest in Massive Corruption Scandal

Airlines Don’t Have to Warn You About Explodey Galaxy Note 7s

In 2017 the TV Is Just a Fancy Ass Computer Display

Samsung’s New Chromebook Knows What You Want to Write Before You Do

The Curved TV Gimmick Might Finally Be Dead

These Are the Only Cables Coming Out of Samsung’s New TV

Samsung’s New Washer Lets You Drop Two Loads at Once

Samsung’s New Robot Vacuum Cleaner Looks Like Darth Vader

Samsung’s New Beauty Products Are Very Judgmental

Holiday Flight Canceled After Jabroni Names Wi-Fi Network ‘Galaxy Note 7’

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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