Wi-Fi kettle woes
Fancy a brew? It took data analyst Mark Rittman 11 hours to get his Wi-Fi-enabled kettle to boil, a task he documented as he tried to integrate the kettle with his other smart devices. 鈥淲ell the kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but now we鈥檙e eating dinner in dark while lights download a firmware update,鈥� he tweeted at the end of the ordeal.
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terabits per second: the capacity of a new subsea cable being built by Facebook and Google to connect Los Angeles to Hong Kong. Google says that鈥檚 enough for simultaneous HD video calls between the two cities.
Handle with care
How best to return your Galaxy Note 7? Put it in a 鈥渟tatic shield鈥� bag, then in one box, inside another box 鈥� and then inside a final, thermally insulated box. These were the instructions that Samsung sent with a return kit it began shipping after being forced to recall its Galaxy Note 7 amid reports of the phones catching fire and exploding. uploaded a video of the kit to YouTube.
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