The unfortunate accident took place in India. 60 years old denizen of a Netavalgarh Pachhli village went to bed with his Jio smartphone in his pocket. When he woke up at night to go to bathroom, the phone exploded – man’s wife, who saw the whole thing happening, described it as ”flames covering his clothes”. Injured, the man was hospitalized but died from severe burns.As much as death is no laughing matter, it is hard not to think that the accident was victim’s own fault. If the man did not sleep with his phone put into a tight and overly warm place like his ...

Heh, okay, yet another reason to not move from Google Chrome… In an attempt to stay afloat, Mozilla has decided ona move that might be good for it but creates a bad precedens for all of us – namely, it now allows advertisements to show in Firefox’ home window, as shown in the screenshot above. Ads will be shown on every platform, from Windows to macOS to Linux.Interestingly, the ads still do not appear on everyone’s browsers. Mozilla might still be testing this ...

As reported by Android Police, Messenger’s Dark Mode is currently being tested in a select number of countries. That is great news for every mobile-addicted users who start their day not by kissing their significant other on the cheek or by getting up and doing twenty squats but by reaching for their phone and looking up the Messenger. We do not know which countries exacly are testing the Dark Mode, but US and Australia are probably not among them. We do not know how long will the tests take and when will the full mode become available to ...

According to what the Essential representative told 9to5Google in a recent interview, all units of the device have been sold out before the end of 2018; what is more is that no new units will be made. The last places where you may yet have a chance of getting one are Best Buy and Amazon. EP accessories will still be produced, but other than that, the company is supposedly hard at work on the next device.Oh well. One and half an year in the market is not bad for such a relatively unpopular product. ...

Elon Musk has come to Twitter to share yet another SpaceX news. As it turns out, Starship, one of the two rocket modules of the SpaceX ship, might go through its first test flight as soon as in April 2019. The flight will most probably not see Starship leaving our planet’s atmosphere; no space flights yet. Before the flight, in March, a tech preview of the rocket will take place. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Google is known for not being 100% serious all the time. Their arguably most famous ”chillout moments” are Google Doodle, when their browser’s logo turns into various animations, minigames and such. As it turns out now (or earlier, if someone has already found it out), Google also likes to put its little jokes in other places. One of them is Google Translation, which seemingly supports languages as exotic as klingon, hacker or… bork bork bork, the language of the Swedish Chef from the Muppets. Chef’s language is relatively simple but also difficult to ...

Or at least it may have the means to do so. American market store chain Walmart has just patented a high-tech sound registration and analysis system specifically made with stores in mind. The objective of this system is to collect and recognize sound patterns in order to detect possible thefts – sounds like an item being hidden under the vest or comparing the number of cash register blips to the number of items put down on the counter. As nice as that sounds, such a system could easily be used in other, less innocent ways. You would think twice about talking in Walmart if you knew ...

Tesla and fire and two friends that meet pretty regularly. One Tesla car burned down in June, another one went down in flames in September; then there was a bunch more accidents. Tesla has recognized the issue, said that it was a car battery’s short circuit’s fault, upgraded the batteries’ shields… and then watched as yet another Model S car burned. Twice! That unlucky accident took place in Los Gatos, California, USA. After a Model S car burst into flames there, it was left alone for six hours in order to let its battery cool down so that it would not overheat ...

Original post about the mobile Rome: Total War is available here. The game has just came out on Google Play Store, where it costs 9.99 euro, no microtransactions added. The game has pretty steep graphic requirements, so make sure that your smartphone is up to the task before buying. Tweet Vote on HN ...

The map has been released a week ago, and now it is available to download on mobile devices. It is part of a 0.10.0 update, 134 MB, which also brings us a variety of fixes and changes. New map, called Vikendi, is a snowy tundra with mountaineous terrain. It offers, naturally, new winter outfits as well as new vehicle, a snowmobile. There are even snowballs that you can throw at one another in the spawn area. The first impressions of people playing on Vikendi is that it is a fast, intense map that requires tactical gameplay. Other, more technical updates include a cosmetics weapon upgrade ...