The Special Edition of Samsung’s flagship will be released on Monday, according to perennial know-it-all Ice Universe who shared a Samsung teaser announcing the date (but not the device). Rumors suggest it’ll be thinner and feature a host of improvements throughout.
New York City Verizon customers complained about problems on Monday night as they experienced slow or intermittent internet connections reflected in this data from the connectivity trackers at Netblocks.
The number of reports on Downdetector had already been dropping, and Verizon spokesperson Ilya Hemlin confirmed it’s fixed in a statement sent to The Verge:
On Monday evening, some Fios customers in NYC briefly experienced intermittent network issues. The issue was quickly resolved and service is operating normally.
Update: The service is now back online.
Mosseri, who now heads up Instagram, talked a bit about the project in response to a post from our EIC Nilay Patel about the HTC First.
If you want to do some time-traveling, check out Dieter Bohn’s review from 2013.
Ryan Broderick of the excellent Garbage Day newsletter has a new podcast exploring “viral freakouts” like Tide Pods and NyQuil chicken. A recent episode featuring Michael Hobbes covers The Anxious Generation and the notion that smartphones have created a teen mental health crisis. It’s a good listen and a more nuanced discussion of the subject than anything in Haidt’s book.
