Baidu, the China-based search engine giant, said earlier today on its official WeChat account that it has established a 20 billion yuan ($3 billion) investment fund that the company will use to fund mid- and late-stage deals in the internet sector, with check sizes ranging from $50 million to $100 million.
A few days ago we revealed an automotive product from Anker called Roav. At the time, it seemed the Roav was an in-vehicle heads-up display that looked a lot like the Navdy. Today, Anker reached out with additional details. Roav, when it launches in November, will be Anker's automotive brand, with the Roav Dashtop as the flagship product. Anker tells TechCrunch the Roav Dashtop… Read More 
Enlarge / This is the one that burned a little girl in Minnesota. (credit: KSTP.com)
Samsung is still facing a serious issue with the Galaxy Note 7. After a worldwide recall due to explosive batteries, the company has been trying to get replacement models back into the hands of consumers and back on store shelves. However, even with a significant amount of replacement devices out in the wild, reports are coming in that the "safe" replacements are still exploding.
So far we've seen six such reports this week, with five claimed to be replacement devices and one with an unknown replacement status:
The Kentucky case is probably the worst. The phone caught fire October 4th and the owner contacted Samsung, but the public didn't hear about it until October 8th. The owner told CBS affiliate WKYT that he felt Samsung was helping him, until he mistakenly received the following text from a Samsung representative:
There are three types of science fiction (in my view): crap, serialized crap and hard-science science fiction. The last type contains a wealth of visions of the future, many of which we enjoy today, and is referenced in the names of, or has influenced, many tech startups and world-class entrepreneurs. Read More 
I wrote last year about the broad, secular shift to online food ordering, and the significant capital inflows into the space that we were seeing. Fast-forward a year, and we're now looking at a very different funding environment: international inflows of capital to the food delivery category dropped 69 percent in Q1 '16, and then dropped another 49 percent in Q2 '16. Read More 
YouTube's The Slow Mo Guys have turned some of life's most mundane happenings into amazing footage using their high-speed cameras. But capturing an underwater explosion at a blistering 120,000 frames per second lets us see the rapidly expanding initial blast that then collapses into a white hot ball of 'let's watch that again and again!'
Two members of hacking groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp were charged yesterday with “conspiring to cause damage to protected computers,” the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois said in a statement. Both hacking groups have taken credit for temporarily bringing down online gaming services Xbox Live, PSN, Battle.net and more.
