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Concerns Raised as Tesla Model 3 Spontaneously Combusts!
One of the biggest (and legitimate) concerns surrounding the expansion of electric cars on our roads generally tends to fall upon the batteries. Put simply, lithium-ion has a very messy production cycle (in terms of mining/pollution), and worse, when something goes wrong, they tend to flame up in a pretty…
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Second-Degree Burns After Fitbit Flex 2 Explodes
A woman from Wisconsin was left with second-degree skin burns after her Fitbit activity tracker combusted while attached to her wrist. Dina Mitchell received the Fitbit Flex 2 (pictured above) as a gift two weeks prior to the incident. She was treated at an urgent care facility the next day…
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Bluetooth Headphones Explode on Airline Passenger’s Neck
Passengers sleeping on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne were awoken by a loud explosion that stemmed from a female passenger’s headphones after two hours mid-flight. The passenger initially felt the device warming up and quickly burning her cheek but as she tried to move it away, the device exploded…
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Apple Investigating Documented Case of Exploding iPhone 7 Plus
An Arizona teen’s tweet has gone viral after it showed copious amounts of smoke coming out of an iPhone 7 Plus in a 21-second video. 18-year old Briana Olivas says that her iPhone 7 Plus was purchased in January and recently took it back to the same Sprint store she…
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Researchers Create Battery With Built-In Fire Extinguisher
Researchers from Stanford University have developed a battery that contains its own fire extinguishing unit. The battery includes triphenyl phosphate, a flame retardant compound, within a shell, suspended inside the electrolyte. A significant rise in temperature is enough to melt that shell, releasing the triphenyl phosphate to quell the fire.…
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SpaceX Hopes to Resume Launches by November
Following the recent incident where a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX’s future launch schedule has been placed in jeopardy, especially considering they planned the relaunch of a retrieved booster. Despite this, according to SpaceX president and COO, Gwynne Shotwell, the company hopes that…
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Explosion Shakes Cape Canaveral As Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad
On Thursday morning one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Air Force station during a routine test-firing in preparation for Saturday’s delivery of a communications satellite into orbit. The blast was large enough to shake buildings over a mile away with a huge…
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SpaceX Rocket’s Sea Landing Fails – Again
Once again, another successful launch by SpaceX, and sadly, another failure to land their Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship at sea. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said that the Falcon 9 rocket had “landed hard on the droneship.” SpaceX had expected this landing would likely fail due to…
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Tesla Supercharger Catches Fire
Tesla cars are well-known sites all around the world now with the Model S being known as a rather amazing piece of technology. The electric sports car contains a ludicrous mode which can accelerate 0-60 in less than 3 seconds, a rather impressive sight. The S model, however, is getting…
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SpaceX Falcon Explodes on ISS Resupply Mission
Space industry upstart SpaceX has suffered an explosive set back on its latest mission. Setting out to resupply the International Space Station, the Falcon 9 rocket suffered an unrecoverable failure and ended up exploding shortly after launch. At this point, the exact cause of the failure is not known yet…
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Rockstar Fixes the Duke O’ Death Car Exploit in a Unique Way
Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V title had a big multiplayer exploit, where players could bring the Duke O’ Death car into multiplayer sessions, even though it was a single player car only. Apparently Rockstar patched the exploit, but not the way you think. The company did not state how they…
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Samsung Galaxy S3 Explosion Caught on CCTV
Samsung hasn’t had the best luck with their phones lately, at least not when we’re looking at them from a fire hazard point-of-view. It isn’t that long time ago that we heard about the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 that combusted while the owner was asleep, and now it seems the next…
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Hubble Time Lapse Shows Epic Stellar Explosion
Like many humans, I get an odd sense of satisfaction of watching things blow up in slow motion, be that a can of Cola packed with TNT, or a balloon filled with Hydrogen, it’s just really cool to watch. So what if we kick things up to an astronomical scale?…
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U.S. Navy’s Railgun Blowing Stuff Up
Ever watch BattleTech as a child? Well if you haven’t you’re missing out, but if you have then you’re hopes and dreams of being able to see a railgun being fired are about to be realized. The United States Navy is set to release it’s electromagnetic railgun on a single…
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Vodafone Store Evacuated Due To Exploding iPad
There have been a few reports of iPhones, iPads and iPods exploding over the years, more so in recent month. I do think it is fair to say that nearly all electrical device can and do explode on rare occasions and circumstances, and that I doubt these incidents are limited…
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