Samsung announced it was halting sales of the Galaxy Note 7, its new flagship smartphone, and launching a global recall - because of dozens of reports of batteries in the phone exploding.

More cases of exploding batteries continued ... At the start of September Samsung had received reports of about 35 incidents involving the phone’s batteries, with the tech giant launching ...

In many ways, things simply couldn’t be going worse for Samsung. The mighty electronics empire had only just recovered from its now-infamous exploding phone debacle when it became embroiled in a ...

Samsung, and the cell carriers that sold the ... mostly rationalizing that the chances of their specific phone exploding is small, and anyway, they don’t go on airplanes all that often.

But eventually, assistants like Viv will be so standard that shipping a phone without capable AI will be as stupid as shipping one with an exploding battery. Samsung doesn't have the time to build ...

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