Google engineer fried his ($1000 Chromebook Pixel) for 10$

Benson Leung, a Google engineer discovered the fright of using dodgy gadgets when a spurious USB Type-C cable fired his $1000 Chromebook Pixel. Leung who also moonlights as a tester for USB Type-C cables finally found his match when he was testing a Surjtech 3M USB A-to-C cable which is available on Amazon for $9.98. The spurious…

Galaxy Note 7: 6GB RAM and up to 512GB of storage

The successor of the Galaxy Note 5 will be called Galaxy Note 7, recent leaks have shown, as Samsung is going for a uniform naming scheme – the same number in its Galaxy S and Note flagships is supposed to enforce the idea that both devices represent last-generation smartphones and the best handsets in Samsung’s…