Google search is a powerful tool. You can use it to help you convert units, calculate a tip and go back in time, and now the search giant has debuted a new RGB to hex converter to identify colors with exact precision. RGB and hex are both value formats assigned to describe specific colors in …

Free app Duolingo is a great way to learn the basics of a new language, with small daily lessons that gradually increase your skills, with rewards for progressing. Now the service has added a new feature that’s a little different from the back-and-forth translation — text-based chatbots. These are aimed at helping you improve your conversational skills and skills you …

Now playing: Watch this: Toxic Galaxy Note 7 can’t be trusted, production suspended 1:51 The Note 7 is no longer available from any US carrier. Samsung It’s increasingly difficult to buy even a “safe” Galaxy Note 7. Verizon and Sprint confirmed that they are no longer selling the replacement version of the Note 7, joining AT&T and T-Mobile, which both …

Carriers the world over are once again recalling the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 but with production of the phone today being halted, what are you meant to swap your Note 7 for? If you’re a Vodafone customer, the telco announced today, you can trade your Note 7 for a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge — or anything cheaper. The Note 7 …

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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was, at launch, a device of great promise. With a big AMOLED screen, excellent camera, useful tools for its stylus and a big battery that lasted for hours, it seemed like a lust-worthy object that would surely result in another big sales success for Samsung. Then the batteries started to catch on fire. Samsung had no …

AT&T said Sunday it has suspended exchanges of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 amid reports that replacement phones are also exploding or catching fire. The wireless carrier said it will continue to accept customers’ Galaxy Note 7s, but it will not offer the newer version of the phone in exchange. Instead, customers are encouraged to choose another Samsung phone or a …

T-Mobile on Sunday became the second wireless carrier to suspend sales and exchanges of Galaxy Note 7s amid mounting reports the so-called “safe” replacement phones were experiencing the same fire and explosion issues as the original model. T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced the move in a tweet Sunday afternoon, citing concern for customers’ safety. T-Mobile becomes the second major US …

Telstra is the latest carrier partner to pause shipments of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, following in the footsteps of US service providers AT&T and T-Mobile. An internal memo from the Aussie telco revealed that Samsung has paused supply of new phones following three incidents of the Note 7 phones issued as replacements exploding. Samsung itself announced a production halt …

Samsung’s exploding phone woes continue with more reports of replacement Galaxy Note 7s exploding. A Minnesota teenager told a Minneapolis-St. Paul TV station that she felt a “weird, burning sensation” in her thumb while holding her Galaxy Note 7 Friday afternoon. That report was followed Saturday by news that a Kentucky man had to go to a hospital to be …