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A chain is building with the number of TechLinked episodes where Riley does a Tim Cook Impression. I'm a huge fan of this and want to push this skid to grow like a SNL skit turns into a movie. What's everyone's ideas for encouraging the continuation of this content?
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Summary Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) is the first big YouTuber to unbox the Apple Vision Pro, Apple's first "spatial computing" product. Brownlee published a video on his channel this Tuesday unboxing the Vision Pro, and giving some spontaneous reactions to it. Quotes My thoughts Very luxurious unboxing experience, just as you would expect from Apple. The product seems to scream quality and technical innovation in some areas. Arguably, this will be the best AR headset on the market. However, I think there are significantly better VR headsets out there. The weight and the short battery life will probably result in you not being able to spend too much time in this headset. However, one question still remains: who is this product for? Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaneSRqePVY
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Summary Tropic Haze, the creators of the popular Nintendo Switch and 3DS emulators, Yuzu and Citra, has agreed to pay the $2,400,000 to Nintendo over the lawsuit that Nintendo issued a little over a week ago against Yuzu. Tropic Haze has agreed to shut down the production of Yuzu and Citra along with all social media accounts and websites that promote the Yuzu and Citra emulators. The yuzu-emu.org will be handed over to Nintendo as well. All the source code for Yuzu and Citra has been pulled down from Github. Quotes My thoughts This is really terrible. It's one thing to face a lawsuit over your users using your program to do things that they shouldn't (I mean, can you imagine if this sort of thing happened with all programs?), but it's a whole different thing to make the company in question take down all the source code and references to it online. Nintendo, you done goofed. Sources The Verge Yuzu Website
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Summary Reviewers have started posting up their thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro. Quotes My thoughts Feels like the beginning of a new era. The daring fireball one is particularly in depth. Sources https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/the_vision_pro https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-vision-pro-review-39f2d82e https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/smart-glasses/apple-vision-pro-review
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Recently, Chamberlain Group (the makers of like 60%+ of the North American garage door market) killed off third-party access to their MyQ API. Popular home automation setups like HomeAssistant, HomeBridge, and HOOBS all relied on API access to for access to users' garage doors. Unless users happen to own a partnered car (Tesla, some Hondas, BMWs, etc) the ad-laden myQ app is now the only way to access any sort of smart functionality for MyQ garage door owners. They have also killed off access to Alexa, Google Home and HomeKit integrations (the latter of which never formally existed at all except through third-party solutions).
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Popular (own 70-80% of all garage door openers) brand Chamberlin has taken action to prevent non-paying apps from using their API to control customer's doors. Most affected is every user of Home Assistant who owned and integrated such a garage door into their smart home interface. Chamberlin has issued a statement claiming the move is about " performance and reliability" and only affects a small percentage of users. Home Assistant reports 4% of all their users use the MyQ integration. Not to be outdone, Amazon recently closed off access to an API that allows Home Assistant users to trigger their smart speakers to play media files and control playback. The GitHub issues thread is flooded with users reporting problems with the integration. No official word from Aamzon on this yet. Quotes Key post on the thread from a Home Assistant developer trying to contact Chamberlin to become an "authorized partner": My thoughts Another day, more cloud based smart home services actively or passively screw their customers over. I had an automation to trigger an echo in my 1yo's room to play lullabies if she woke up during the night. Guess i need to buy a Sonos speaker now. Sources https://chamberlaingroup.com/press/a-message-about-our-decision-to-prevent-unauthorized-usage-of-myq https://community.home-assistant.io/t/the-current-state-of-myq-from-the-codeowner/630623 https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/issues/2090
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Foxtel, the long-standing Australian Cable/Satellite TV service , is releasing another streaming service "Hubbl" (they already have 4 foxtel now, binge, kayo and flash news), claiming to be an "all-inclusive" streaming solution for Australia. They're venturing into hardware with a TV for Hubble. But for those not keen on a new TV (for no reason), there's a rebranded MiBox S 1st gen from 2018 (gross) theres no news on pricing or if you can use a smart tv you already paid for or a streaming device you already paid for and which streaming services are actually included in the monthly fee and if it has 24 month contracted like their existing Cable/Satellite TV service already has There is also no news if the tv can use another apps or even has HDMI inputs to use something decent https://www.techguide.com.au/news/televisions-news/foxtel-launches-hubbl-a-platform-that-combines-tv-and-streaming-in-one-place/ https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/foxtel-unveils-its-new-hubbl-tv-technology-to-make-tv-viewing-much-smoother/news-story/1196107a10b9a615892744e5a4fc008a https://eftm.com/2023/10/foxtel-announces-hubbl-streaming-tv-platform-destined-to-fail-or-the-next-big-thing-239196 https://tvtonight.com.au/2023/10/foxtel-announces-hubbl-puck-and-tv.html
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Summary Mint mobile announced it in a mass customer email that they're being acquired by T-mobile. Mint says they don't have plans to change prices but promise better service and customer experience following this. Quotes My thoughts I've had them for almost a year. Still have yet for a need to call customer support cause it's not bad tbh. Sources https://www.mintmobile.com/unicorn/ (yes that is the link thanks Ryan for making the mods question me) I attached the official announcement email to cause it's kinda hard to link.
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Summary Kernel 5.10 is the latest LTS release and it will be supported till 2022 only unless some companies decide to support it. Quotes Makes sense, right? But, what was different for Linux Kernel 5.4 that it is supported until 2025 when compared to Linux Kernel 5.10? Linux Kernel 5.10 LTS is also set to be the default kernel for Debian 11 “Bullseye” and Google’s next Android release is also going to be utilizing it. So, why can’t it be maintained for the next 6 years? Well, it looks like, not enough companies have committed to help for the maintenance and testing of Linux Kernel 5.10 compared to 5.4. So, without any proper resources to support its maintenance over the years for various devices and systems, how can we expect Greg to keep working on it? That’s what he had to say about it: Because, 5.4 almost did not become “6 years” of support from me. That was because in the beginning, no one said they were going to use it in their devices and offer me help in testing and backporting. Only when I knew for sure that we had people helping this out did I change the date on kernel.org. So far the jury is still out for 5.10, are you willing to help with this? If not, why are you willing to hope that others are going to do your work for you? I am talking to some companies, but am not willing to commit to anything in public just yet, because no one has committed to me yet. What would you do if you were in my situation? Greg also hints that Linux Kernel 5.10 can be supported for more than 2 years only if enough companies commit their resources to help achieve that. My thoughts Well, I do hope that companies will step forward and support this kernel, especially if android 12 and beyond are gonna be based on it. Sources https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-5-10-support/
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Summary A vulnerability found last week that was originally thought to only affect the Linux and BSD operating systems is now believed to impact macOS as well. Quotes My thoughts I hope Apple patches this vulnerability soon. As a user of both Mac and Linux, yea I kinda panicked (y? I have no idea). But in all seriousness, this needs to be patched and they literally had a security update just this last week. Sources https://www.techradar.com/news/sudo-bug-also-found-to-affect-macos?region-switch=1612416646
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Summary Silicon Motion said this week that it would start sampling its enterprise-grade SSD controllers with a PCIe Gen 5.0 interface in the second half of next year, which means that they will debut commercially in 2022. This is one of the first times that an SSD controller maker has mentioned a chip with a PCIe 5.0 interface, and even though the controller will debut in the server space, models for consumers will inevitably follow. Quotes My thoughts This is good news...........in a way. For the moment it seems that these drives will first hit Servers and then slowly trickle down to the consumer space, so I don't really expect this to really matter to consumers until at least 2023 (I could be wrong). And as for the speeds, I'd say that not very many people need those speeds but that was told by people of SSDs and PCIe 4.0, so yea. Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/silicon-motion-pcie-50-enterprise-ssd-controller
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DISCLAIMER: I do not know if this is really "news" or not, but I could not find a forum post about this yet, so I thought let's post it. Summary The Tesla Model S has 10 Teraflops of gaming power according to Elon Musk's Twitter posts and the official Tesla Website, which makes it nearly as powerful as the PS5 with a little over 10 Teraflops. Apperantly it can play Cyberpunk 2077 and other AAA games like The Witcher 3 and similar. The car has 3 screens in total with the main screen in the front having a resolution of 2200x1300 at 17" Quotes Source: Model S | Tesla It also is the currently fastest 0-60mph accelerating car which is being mass produced. Source: Elon Musk auf Twitter: "Plaid Model S ships next month https://t.co/HFUPTnQiPB" / Twitter My Opinion: I think this is maybe a little overkill... If it can play a few games for waiting like 15 minutes for someone - great. But really? 10 Teraflops? This is in my opionion just too overkill and using too much battery life, but if you truly are a car and gamer enthusiast and can afford it - why not? Sources Model S | Tesla Elon Musk auf Twitter: "Plaid Model S ships next month https://t.co/HFUPTnQiPB" / Twitter EDIT: Just an add on to my opinion: If the Tesla needs the power for the self driving algorithms - it is of course not overkill. Although I wonder how much Teraflops the other self driving tesla models have.
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Summary A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. The vulnerability, named "Baron Samedit," impacts most Linux distributions today. Quotes My thoughts Ho boy, this seems bad. hopefully it gets patched soon (edit: It was patched, update your sudo) and we can sudo in peace. I(i used arch btw, sorry had to) Sources https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/10-years-old-sudo-bug-lets-linux-users-gain-root-level-access/
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Summary In yet another sign that Intel's efforts to rebuild its engineering corps might be swift under the new incoming CEO, Intel announced today that Sunil Shenoy, a 33-year Intel veteran who left the company in 2014, will be returning to the company as the senior vice president and general manager of the Design Engineering Group. Quotes My thoughts Good news, right? In all seriousness, I hope that intel will get up and get moving. Seems that what linus said in that one WAN show is true," Key talent attracts key talent". Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-bulks-up-engineering-roster-with-returning-technologist-sunil-shenoy
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Summary A mysterious system packing a Core i9-10910 Comet Lake CPU and a (currently unheard of) AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 65GB of RAM has been spotted on an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark score. All data indicates this system could possibly be a prototype for the next generation iMac from Apple. Quotes My thoughts Honestly, I find this a little weird. But I wouldn't bet on the OS support for this system lasting very long. Ah well, whatever apple does, hopefully it will make sense. Sources https://www.tomshardware.com/news/potential-next-gen-corei9-imac https://www.ashesofthesingularity.com/benchmark#/benchmark-result/a3ec0e28-1210-4ce1-b9ad-81886ef60dac/
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GNOME, known for it's ever popular DE (Desktop Environment) on Linux, is experiencing a “Major Outage” with 8 out of it's 13 websites not being available for the end user. Notable infrastructure outages include: Pastebin, GNOME Extensions, Nextcloud, Main GNOME Website. Other less vital websites, such as Damned Lies, Blogs, Surveys, and Shop, are also down. Summary These outages have hindered user access to extensions that tie into the GNOME Shell, and download various media on the GNOME website. This shouldn't cause a major impact as these services are not a part of the main GNOME infrastructure, unlike their DNS service, which is still currently operable. Below is Quoting the Official status.gnome.org Website as of 21:40 PST My thoughts It's possible these websites are currently down for updates. However, the unlikeliness of having this many main websites of the GNOME foundation down, is slightly odd. A pain point for me is the GNOME extensions, as I would like to download some. Sources https://status.gnome.org/ Visiting various different websites and being unable to access them.
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Summary Xiaomi is now rolling out MIUI 12 stable (based on android 11) to a number of Xiaomi phones (such as the Xiaomi Mi 9 and the Poco F1, X2 and F2 pro), although Xiaomi has said it will not support a number of Redmi phones, which Xiaomi originally said it would support, these include the Redmi Y3, Redmi 7, Redmi 6A and Redmi 6. Quotes My thoughts Xiaomi updating their phones to MIUI 12 is good because Android 11 (What it is MIUI is based off) brings many improvements to Xiaomi phones. I hope more Xiaomi phones will get Android 11/MIUI 12 and more manufactories follow suit in updating their phones to android 11. Sources https://www.androidcentral.com/heres-when-your-xiaomi-redmi-or-poco-phone-will-get-miui-12-update https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/miui-12-android-11-and-10-update-here-is-the-full-list-of-eligible-xiaomi-and-redmi-phones/ar-BB1bSMMf https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/xiaomi-reveals-redmi-devices-that-won-t-be-getting-miui-12-update-11607511643548.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-confirms-that-MIUI-12-is-now-available-on-over-30-smartphones.507680.0.html
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Summary The myth is that if you want a super secure password, you let your cat run over your keyboard. But, in a recent incident, a security flaw was discovered by two harmless kids by simply mashing the keyboard. Quotes My thoughts Hilarious, but never fear, seems that it is now fixed Sources https://news.itsfoss.com/security-flaw-in-linux-mint-kids/
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Well western digital and samsung are my preference °°° i still do wanna know which one has the best output (1tb)?
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AMD's Benchmark for Radeon RX 6000 GPU Shows Close Performance With Nvidia's RTX 3080 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pcmag.com/news/amds-benchmark-for-radeon-6000-gpu-shows-close-performance-with-nvidia%3famp=true Well Nvidia has a competitor in the market but cant Pressure RTX for what its worth.
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June 19 2019 IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Nearly a year and a half later the company has so much confidence in RedHat's parent devision, The Cloud Devision, that they no longer want to be associated with Mainframes and other Infistructure services. The Cloud Devision is the only growing devision inside IBM. Due to massive cost cuts in R&D, labor, and investment as well as using creative accounting practices IBM was able to delay some of the huge issues its been facing since the 90's at bay until around 5 - 6years ago. The traditional mainframe devision has been threatened by basic x86 servers for decades, and the last decade of evolving cloud hosting companies has effectively nailed closed most of IBM into a weighted coffin and tossed them into the ocean. IBM has been a long time investor in Linux, but also a sort of fair weather friend in regards to percentage of spend reletave to size of company. Remember in 2009 IBM was the forth largest company in the world. And its Linux investments have played critical roles in the early years. IBM invested a billion dollars in 2000 on Linux, but has since been easily overshadowed by others Including Facebook who has spent an estimated 16billion dollars on open source technologies. It's presumed that IBM both hopes to jump the stock price by changing their narrative, and change the management focus of the company and investors into greater R&D spend. Other more successfull Coud Giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are heavily invested in A. I. and open source. P. S. Open source is not necessarily a silver bullet for every Cloud company, at least in my opinion. But it's hard as a private company to get free spec work if your customers and enthusiasts can't see your code. Summary 10 Years of declining infrastructure management, (aka mainframe,) services sales and IBM has decided to spin off the division into its own company. Quotes My thoughts Layoffs, outsourcing, and massive cuts to R&D for decades led to little room for new internal business growth. If they wish to maintain the growth of the Cloud Division, aka Watson and Redhat, then they need to kill off the old guard. Hopefully they stop the disorganized cost management at all costs strategy and turn around like Microsoft has under Satya Nadella. It would suck to see RedHat, formerly the largest open source company and the birthplace of kvm*, crumble like the rest of IBM has. Sources . https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/ibm-shares-surge-on-plans-to-spin-off-unit-into-separate-publicly-traded-company-.html . https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/18/ibm_q2_fy2019_decline/ . https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-21/ibm-beats-estimates-ekes-out-revenue-growth-on-cloud . https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future . https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/ . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine . https://itsfoss.com/ibm-invest-1-billion-linux/ . https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/facebooks-long-history-of-open-source-investments-deepens-with-platinum-level-linux-foundation-membership/
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Full disclosure, I work for this company, though regardless of that I think this is big news. Check out the company's website at https://limbic.ai. "London headquartered health tech startup, Limbic, has announced that its psychological assessment tool, Limbic Access, has achieved Class IIa UKCA medical device certification, making it the first and only AI mental health chatbot in the world to earn this status for its clinical effectiveness, safety and risk management. The certification confirms that its mental health e-triage chatbot, which is able to predict mental health disorders with an accuracy rate of 93 per cent, can be safely incorporated into the psychological therapy pathway to support patient self-referral, driving significant efficiencies to support overstretched clinicians and improving patient outcomes." Basically, one of the tools we built, limbic access, is the first chatbot / ai mental health tool to get such a certification, especially in the UK. This marks an amazing start for changing the world of mental health and addressing the bonkers supply problem found there. Taking the EU speficially (due to reliable data), there is one psychoetherapist for every 5000 people1. Seems like it's pretty effective. UKCA auditors, SGS, reviewed clinical evidence generated from more than 60,000 referrals and found that, when compared with standard referral methods such as telephone calls and online forms, Limbic Access helps deliver: 53% improvement in recovery rates 45% fewer changes in treatment, due to increased triage accuracy 23.5% reduction in assessment time 18% reduction in treatment dropouts 13% reduction in wait time for assessment 5% shorter wait time for treatment. 1 https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2023/01/17/health-tech-startup-achieves-world-first-certification-for-ai-mental-health-chatbot 2 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/EDN-20171010-1
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With all these different companies out there doing shady stuff (anti consumer, keeping consumers data even though they said they wouldn't, etc), I was thinking it could be useful for there to be something like a black list on the ltt labs page (or elsewhere) that gives consumers a quick look up of what companies to avoid and the reason why. I know almost every major tech company is NOT perfect when it comes to some of these things (especially anti consumer) which is sad to say. The point of this would be to highlight ones doing blatantly bad things that need to be called out and have customers vote with their wallets against them Edit 1 (adding): I know something like this would basically ban/black list all the major pc component makers(nvidia/amd/intel) making it very hard to build/upgrade a pc or fix broken parts. It would be extremely tough to boycott these companies too. However the hope/thought I have is that this would hopefully hold the companies more accountable of all the bad acts they try and pull on consumers Edit 2 (adding): Calling this/it a black list may have been a bit extreme on my end (given how hard that would be given the above comment i made in edit 1). I still think something along those lines or an advisory/cautionary list is still useful. Obviously customers should do their research but having a page like this as a go to (similar to how we go to ltt and other reviewers for general tech reviews) where they can get a quick summary and easily stay up to date on what companies to be cautions of is important. I keep up with the Wan show vod highlights pretty regularly so I am usually decently well informed with the news headlines of these bad acting companies However it can hard to see how some of these issues are resolved missing an episode Company doesn't respond or their response doesn't get covered (I know the wan show covers a lot of info so no fault on ltt here) Edit 1 (adding): I know its important for consumers to do research but things can go overlooked and other times its hard to tell how outdated or up to date some articles are on sites. Also Just having another source of media for people to research before making a decision can do nothing but help consumers stay more informed. Could include companies that were dropped as sponsors Anker comes to mind with the whole Eufy debacle I do understand that this could potentially lead to legal problems so this may not entirely be possible A ranking/sorting system would be cool to highlight the things a company had done. (examples I have here are just my quick thoughts, stuff obviously doesn't have to go in these exact categories) A minor thing and 'be cautious' about them bad customer support on multiple occasions lobbying against right to repair Medium thing 'avoid if possible' company going against perpetual licenses Horrendous 'avoid at all costs' covered up data breach heavily anti consumer practices blatant lies about how consumer data is kept Ranking of how well they address incident or policies Good being: how EVGA has resolved some of their gpu issues with the thermal pads Bad being: refusal to change As stated in the beginning its hard to find a company that doesn't do at least one of these things. Especially and avoiding certain companies where there is a Monopoly/Oligopoly (cough cough NVIDIA/AMD, Alphabet/facebook, etc. ). But for companies where there is a wider market share this could be useful! Would still be good to keep a log of the things the things the Monopolies/Oligopolies do since that type of information would be useful Curious to hear all of your thoughts! Definitely know this idea draft isn't perfect but I feel like something along these lines would really benefit from this as consumers. Edit 1 (adding): in summary obviously it would be hard to avoid all the companies preforming bad acts since so many do something in one way or another. In cases where there is large market share, the hope is to hold them accountable since there is is hard to act as a whole to do anything. For cases where there is another option, it could hopefully get consumers to vote with their wallet and force the company to change.
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#DeathNotes **Badumti...*BOOM* * Well , it finally done did it, but not from a product series you expected it to happen, recently it was reported that a Samsung Note 4 that was purchased by the owner last year, which had no problems up until this last week exploded while charging, This one severely affecting & somewhat permanently scarring a little girls face, Earlier events that were prominent with the Note 7 had happened without much of a damage that was a direct threat to any person or this severe & this event happened in the worst way, According to the translated report from the original news site , The owner 9th of March set his phone to charge overnight near the bed plugged in to the wall charger where their little girl was sleeping & according to the parents statement the child was sleeping in the far other end/corner of the bed & they went to sleep & later woke up to the noise of the child's cry , upon approaching finding out that the phone had blown up & had left a slightly chaotic scene burning the bedding side and unfortunately their daughter’s face. i checked the specs on the phone & According to gsmarena the phone packs in a 3220 mAh battery Removable , with that much of a capacity packs a pretty awful punch when/if it goes off , since the phone is this much used for near a one year period we have to assume it's not a manufacturing issue out of the box, either the battery gone bad & started to swell up & owner didn't notice & kept using it anyways , Details are limited on this at the moment , Maybe some form of electrical shortening cause the power adapter to do something , maybe a counterfeit lowcost battery or a charger was used that caused it to overheat & explode Injury Image : (Slightly graphic images) The actual extent of the burn was not reported , 1st or 2nd degree from the looks of it aftermath image of the device "Feng Lingling's wife said that now, her daughter every night will call the pain, simply can not sleep, at the same time, because the mouth was burned, she can not even eat anything, every day can only drink a little water. Last Years Note 7 had a severe problem with the batter overheating & completely damaging the phone while charging. The problem turned out to be quick hustle in manufacturing the battery & flooding it to the market for the company profit & it hit them back severely , even making the phone into somewhat of a no fly list category because of its potential to do harm , The company has then implemented an improved security checkup protocol to the phones safety. SamsungsBrandsareonFiyaaah! & So in conclusion , do regularly check weather your battery has any form of deformity & other issues , try to replace them in a respectable amount of time after the warranty period is done with & post your thoughts on this down below, was it the parents fault for leaving a phone plugged in at a very close proximity to their child? or was ti the manufacturers fault? Other similar events with the same model of Samsung's note were reported , but those were pretty rare >> Below is the image reported by a man in Michigan last year , One reported from Pakistan Souce: (WWCF & Wccf linked source , yes i know ) That is the only source afaik http://wccftech.com/samsung-galaxy-note-4-explodes-5-year-girl-burnt/ http://www.guancha.cn/society/2017_03_10_398190.shtml http://shanghaiist.com/2017/03/14/samsung_explodes_girls_face.php Last link courtesy of forum member : Djole123