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this is seen it and here are the stories that matter right now during a press conference on Sunday samsung said that two separate battery defects caused both the original batch of its Galaxy Note seven phone and the replacement units to overheat in both cases manufacturing floors forced the positive and negative layers inside the batteries together causing them to short-circuit and catch fire in a video it released during the press conference samsung announced it would implement a new eight point inspection process to prevent any flawed batteries from being used in future phones one check is a durability test that examines the battery when it's been overcharged or punctured by a nail samsung said the galaxy s eight its next flagship phone expected to launch this spring would be tested under the new process Hugo Barra is headed back to Silicon Valley after a 3-year stint as the public face and vp of global operations for chinese tech company xiaomi Barra said in a statement on facebook yesterday that he'd be leaving Beijing for personal reasons but would still work with Zhao me as an advisor the for xiaomi bara worked in product management at Google and served a spokesperson for Google's Android division stay up to date with the latest by downloading the cnet tech today app in the Apple App Store