FAA reiterates warning that no Galaxy Note 7 phones may be turned on or charged in flight

The FAA has reiterated its position that airline passengers should power down and not use or charge Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices on airplanes, or put the phones in checked luggage. The statement comes after Samsung halted global sales of the Note 7 following a series of fires in purportedly "safe" phones after a recall last month.

In response to a statement from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and following a recent decision by Samsung to suspend global sales of all Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration urges passengers onboard aircraft to power down, and not use, charge, or stow in checked baggage, all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices, including recalled and replacement devices.

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Samsung made an expensive desktop PC that is also a speaker

Now that you can get a VR-capable desktop PC for $499 you might find yourself wondering, "How can PC manufacturers possibly keep margins alive?" Samsung found a way. Its new ArtPC Pulse cylindrical PC / speaker is $1,199.99 to preorder on Amazon right now. I suppose a lower-end SKU could be forthcoming, but there's not a ton of fat to cut here: the 256GB SSD is nice, but 8GB of RAM is basically a minimum these days, and the AMD Radeon RX 460 graphics card falls below Oculus's new minimum VR spec so what’s the point. Even the processor is boring; a sixth-gen Core i5.

What you're really paying for is this hot cylinder shape, the word "Art" in the name, and a built-in Harmon Kardon speaker. HP just released a speaker-as-a-desktop, too, but...

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Google’s hardware chief has a Pixel in his pocket

This high tech Dutch raincoat is designed for bicycle commuting

A raincoat review, on The Verge? I know, I can hardly believe it myself. But that was before I received an early sample of the Cyclist Raincoat from a small Dutch company called Senscommon. No, it doesn’t contain any electronics — but it’s still high-tech because it applies scientific knowledge for a practical purpose. No, nobody put a chip in it — but it’s still smart because it’s thoughtfully designed. And yeah, it’s wearable just like most rain gear meant to keep you dry on your biking commute — only the Cyclist Raincoat does it with unrivaled style and convenience.

I spent a week with a prototype of the raincoat here in Amsterdam, the bicycle capital of the world. Outside of some color variations on the internal taping along the...

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Feds secretly subpoenaed the encrypted chat app Signal earlier this year

Earlier this year, Open Whisper Systems was served with a federal subpoena for records on its users, according to documents published today. Prosecutors were seeking data on two suspects who used Signal, an encrypted chat app produced by Open Whisper. Unfortunately for the government, Signal keeps only minimal logs on users, so the vast majority of the requested information was unavailable.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Open Whisper Systems in the fight, has published a number of court filings related to the the request. Portions of the filings are redacted and much about the subpoena is still secret — including the case number, the date it was served, and the details of the underlying case — but it’s clear that...

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Messenger's end-to-end encryption is now available for all 1 billion users

Facebook has finished rolling out end-to-end encryption on Messenger, allowing users of the app to protect their conversations from being monitored by hackers, government agencies, or Facebook itself. Trials for the feature started back in July, but this week sources from the company told Wired that the encryption was now available to all of the app's 1 billion users.

Messenger's new encryption comes in the form of "secret conversations" — an option that's available by clicking on a user's name in any regular chat. Once activated you can talk as normal, with the added option of setting a self-destruct timer on your messages — anywhere from fives seconds to a day.

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This candle smells like a new Mac

In another episode of "Stop it tech, you're drunk," Apple accessory company Twelve South has released a candle that smells like a freshly unboxed Mac. For just $24, you can enjoy a hand-poured, 100 percent soy wax candle with scents of mint, peach, basil, lavender, mandarin, and sage. I'm not sure how all that equates to the smell of a new Mac, but enough people have been hyped about this candle for it to sell out on the website.

Honestly, I can't remember what my Macbook Air smelled like the first time I unboxed it. Perhaps it was a mixture of excitement and vague anxiety at having just dropped the biggest sum of money I'd ever spent in my young adult life.

And where exactly should one place this candle in their homes? In the home...

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With Pixel, Google wants to be another Apple

Today, Tuesday, October 4th is Google’s biggest hardware event, all the leaks will tell you, with everything from a pair of "by Google" smartphones to Google Home smart speakers, new wireless routers, and a 4K Chromecast. But the overriding thing that Google will try to sell us is its vision of integrating that multiplicity of physical gadgets and trinkets into its digital empire of software and services. Just like Apple.

Google’s competition with Apple has always been asymmetric because that other California company has been able to control and fine-tune both the hardware and the operating system of its world-conquering iPhones and iPads. The Android alternative, as good as Google might try to make it, just can’t match the iPhone’s...

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How to watch Google's Pixel event: start time, live blog, and streaming

It's Pixel time everybody. Apple's big fall phone event has come and gone, and it's Google's turn to take the stage. The company is set to unveil a slew of new hardware at an event in San Francisco today, and we'll be there to bring you all the news and more.

If you've not heard anything about what to expect from today's event, congratulations for managing to stay off the internet completely for such a long time! The big news for today have already been so thoroughly leaked they're dripping on the floor, with most of the attention focused round a pair of new smartphones dubbed the Pixel and Pixel XL.

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First Click: Amazon Echo leaves the door open for Google Home

Google is holding its big Pixel event today, and while most of the focus will be on the company’s new smartphones (comprehensively leaked though they may be), it’s Google Home — the company’s AI-powered Amazon Echo rival — that could be the most important piece of hardware on stage.

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Apple’s use of 'sapphire' in iPhone camera lens questioned in new tests

Apple has been using sapphire on its iPhone camera lenses for a few years now since the launch of the iPhone 5S, but it might not be as scratch resistant as you'd expect. A new video raises questions over Apple's use of sapphire in its iPhone camera lens, and includes scratch tests to rate its durability. While Apple claims it uses sapphire crystal in its iPhone lens, tests by YouTuber JerryRigEverything show that Apple could be using a more cost effective sapphire laminate on top of regular glass.

JerryRigEverything tested Apple's iPhone lens with an XRF machine and electron microscope, and concluded that Apple doesn't use pure sapphire in its lenses. The underside of the lens contains less sapphire than the exposed part, and a...

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WikiLeaks plans to release documents on US election and Google over the next ten weeks

WikiLeaks plans to release documents pertaining to Google and the US electoral system over the next ten weeks, the organization announced today. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced the release in a video address at the end of a press conference in Berlin on Tuesday morning, where the organization was celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Assange said the forthcoming documents will pertain to Google, the US presidential election, arms trading, war, oil, and mass surveillance. The organization plans to release them on a weekly basis over the next ten weeks, with Assange saying that all information related to the US presidential race will be published before election day on November 8th.

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Telegram puts games right into your chats, and they're great

The way I explain Telegram to people is that it’s basically WhatsApp without any of the overhanging Facebook privacy intrusion. Telegram has been my favorite messaging client for a couple of years now, and this week it’s added a very simple, highly addictive new ability: games. It’s delivered via a new @GameBot account, which lets me either play by myself or link up directly to a friend and compete at achieving the highest score. Yes, the dreaded "bot" buzzword is present, but if you just ignore the trendiness of the branding, it’s an ingenious addition.

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A dramatic new sound will now play for rare Xbox achievements

Microsoft is introducing a new sound for rare Xbox One achievements. The new notification will include a special diamond icon alongside an operatic rendition of the original sound. It's designed to signal achievements that are rarely collected by fellow Xbox players, and gamers will now be able to see just how rare achievements are within each game. Microsoft is rolling the improved achievements features to Xbox One Preview members initially, and all consoles by the end of the month.

Alongside the achievement changes, Microsoft is also introducing Xbox Live Arena for competitive matches. Killer Instinct is the first supported game, allowing players to compete in daily tournaments. Microsoft is only gathering feedback about Arena so far,...

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Apple Pay is now available in ten countries after Russia launch

Apple launched Apple Pay in Russia today, continuing the international expansion of its contactless payment system. The service is available at first to Sberbank and Mastercard clients, according to the Tass Russian news agency, which cited a statement published on Sberbank's website.

With today's expansion, Apple Pay is now available in ten countries since launching in 2014, including the US, UK, China, Australia, and Canada. Samsung's competing service, Samsung Pay, launched in Russia last month, and is available in nine countries. Google's Android Pay, which launched in the US in 2015, has expanded to the UK, Australia, and Singapore, and will soon be available on the mobile web, according to a recent blog post. Apple Pay began r...

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The UE Boom's new PartyUp feature lets over 50 speakers play music in sync

The UE Boom, our favorite portable Bluetooth speaker, already lets you "double up" two devices for better sound. You can set them to play the same exact audio out of both speakers, or they can be configured as a stereo pair where one speaker is the left channel, the other right. But now Ultimate Ears is going far beyond a two-speaker setup — if you've got enough speakers, that is. An update to the UE Boom and UE Megaboom apps being rolled out today introduces a new feature called PartyUp. PartyUp allows you to corral dozens of nearby UE speakers (the company says "more than 50") and get all of them playing the same music in sync.

These can be a mix of the original UE Boom, UE Boom 2, and UE Megaboom; the excellent UE Roll and Roll 2 are...

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Verizon is latest to leak Google's Pixel phones, and they come in blue

The Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones from Google will be carried by Verizon Wireless, according to an enterprise sales page spotted this evening by Gizmodo. It's long been rumored that the number one US carrier will sell "the Google phone," but this is the most direct confirmation yet. It's Verizon's own website, so there's not much room to dispute — though the premature phone listings appear to have been removed.

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Google hires Amazon's hardware chief to run new smartphone line

Google's hardware division has hired Amazon's David Foster as VP of product engineering, according to a report from The Information that says he'll lead future development on the company's new range of smartphones. Google is set to unveil its first branded phones, widely expected to be called the Pixel and Pixel XL, alongside other hardware at a major event in about 12 hours' time.

Foster has quite the resume, according to his LinkedIn profile: he was a senior director at Apple from 1998 to 2004, spent a year at the Gibson guitar company as CTO, then moved onto Microsoft as a general manager for hardware. He left for Amazon's Lab126 in early 2011, leading development on the Kindle and Kindle Fire lines; as VP of hardware engineering he...

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Google’s head of self-driving tech: We’re not building a car, we’re building the driver

Google — which has been working on its self-driving cars since 2009 — is not in the car-making business. Nope, Google is in the superhuman-driver-making business, according to Dmitri Dolgov, the company’s head of self-driving technology.

Driving is a social activity, Dolgov told Recode during a live walkthrough of the technology on Google’s self-driving car. That means that the car has to not only be able to detect and recognize humans and other objects, it also has to be able to interact with, understand and react to their behavior.

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Amy Schumer's head writer Jessi Klein was amazingly prescient about Google (in 2003)

Eighteen years after its initial launch, Google's influence over our everyday lives is so powerful that it's almost easy to forget what life was like pre-Google, or how we first stumbled upon it (more likely face-planted into it, like the Internet toddlers we were in the late 1990s/early 2000s).

That's why Jessi Klein's story for The Moth is both charmingly nostalgic and amazingly prescient about Google — this thing, this "fucking insane search engine" that would eventually change almost every aspect of how we create and consume stuff online. Klein, for those who don't know, is now head writer and executive producer at Inside Amy Schumer; but in 2003, when Klein originally told her story on The Moth, she was an aspiring comic using a...

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