Elon Musk's SpaceX has finally revealed all the details we wanted to know about Starship's November test flight explosion. Additionally, the company agreed with the FAA on proposed corrective actions.
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The November test flight of SpaceX's Starship rocket, although successful, ended in flames. Much was speculated on social media about the cause, but only now we finally know what actually happened.
An explosion has been reported at Google's data center in Omaha, U.S. Some injuries have been rumored along with outages, but Google is yet to address the claims in a public statement.
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In an alleged mail sent to a customer, Newegg has stated that it has started accepting returns for Gigabyte's GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM PSUs that have been labeled as "explosive" by reviewers.
Gigabyte recently said that it would RMA eligible units of the GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM as the units have been found to be potentially "explosive". However, the firm may be declining such requests.
A couple of Gigabyte PSU models, namely, GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM, were noted by reviewers as somewhat "explosive" during heavy stress. The company today has released a statement regarding the matter.
Newegg is seemingly bundling Gigabyte GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM PSUs alongside graphics cards via its Newegg Shuffle system. These PSUs have poor protection and apparently are very prone to explode.
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Tesla's Big Battery at Geelong, Victoria, caught fire earlier today. The responsible authority has since deployed fire firefighting teams there, and a warning for the locals has also been issued.
Elon Musk indicates that the SN10 engines lacked thrust. The rocket landed at 10 m/s, damaging some parts. It also used "Helium in header" to atone for SN8's explosion, but that was also problematic.
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Starship SN8 executed an almost perfect high-altitude flight test before plummeting towards the earth at a velocity greater than the intended threshold. SpaceX and Musk extolled the test as a success.
A Tesla vehicle burst into flames and exploded over the weekend after it crashed into a tow truck along Moscow MKAD highway. The vehicle was believed to be using Autopilot at the time of the crash.
An Apple retail store in Amsterdam was evacuated and the local fire brigade was called after an iPad unit exploded. No one was injured, but three staff members were treated for breathing problems.
Apple is investigating an incident wherein one of the earphones in a pair of its AirPods began to emit white smoke while being used by a man at gym. Apparently one of the earphones then exploded.
A man in China was apparently looking to test if the battery in his iPhone was the real deal by biting into it. Unsurprisingly, it soon exploded, though luckily no one was harmed in the incident.
Apple, the owners of the headphone manufacturing company Beats, have declared that the explosion of a woman's headphones earlier this year was not caused by the headphones themselves.
A woman heading from Beijing to Melbourne was awoken mid-flight after her headphones exploded, leaving blisters on her face. Further investigation found that the battery had caused the issue.
Even though Samsung will hold a special event next week to announce the findings of its Note7 investigation, some of that information has already leaked. Surprise: it was the batteries' fault.
Samsung was supposed to announce its findings with regards to the exploding Note7 handsets late last year. The company pushed that date to January and is now saying it will hold a special event.
Samsung is preparing to share results of its Galaxy Note7 investigation, after discontinuing the device due to safety risks. Its details will be announced later in the month.
A family in Nashville, Tennessee is suing Amazon after selling a hoverboard, which was responsible for burning down their home. They contend Amazon knew it was dangerous, but still decided to sell it.
Major online retailer Amazon has reportedly banned the sale of the so-called 'hoverboards' following warnings that the devices are dangerous and prone to catch fire.
A woman from Hong Kong was rudely awakened by an exploding iPhone 6 Plus. Although she was not hurt in the incident, she does intend to contact Apple for compensation.
OnePlus has acknowledged an incident in which the battery inside one of its handsets exploded in a customer's pocket, destroying the device, and leaving the customer with a minor skin burn.
An explosion in a Shanghai plant owned by Pegatron has reportedly injured 61 of the plant's workers. The factory, which was not yet fully operational, is rumored to be making parts for Apple products.
The Foxconn manufacturing plant in Chengdu, China that suffered from an explosion on May 20 that killed three Foxconn workers has now repoened. AllThingsDigital reports that it has received a statement from Foxconn stating that...
The massive explosion that took the lives of two workers in a Foxconn plant in China has now apparently taken the life of a third worker as well. AllThingsDigital reports that Foxconn has issued a...
Several Chinese news sources are reporting on an explosion at a Foxconn plant in the Chinese city of Chengdu, Sichuan province. The accident appears to have been the result of a lightning strike that struck...
Yesterday Neowin reported on a MacBook Pro whose MagSafe adapter overheated burning the user and the laptop. Today reports are surfacing on an HTC Touch Pro whose spare battery erupted. The story goes that...
We have heard of exploding batteries and burning laptops but this may be the first potential laptop explosion that killed a person. A software engineer working for Tata Consulting Services was found dead in...
According to The Inquirer, an Apple PowerBook shocked office-workers in a London marketing agency when it unexpectedly burst into flames, melting keys on the keyboard and spewing acrid smoke into the room. Although the company...
Now that The Planet have started to power up their customers servers again after they had an explosion from one of their transformers earlier this week, see Here, it seems some facts are beginning to...
Neowins previous web servers host, ThePlanet based in Dallas Texas, suffered a major setback yesterday as an electrical fire allegedly caused an explosion, knocking out around 9000 of their customers hosted websites. Marcus Langenveld writes:...
The Great Laptop Battery Recall of 2006 had everyone paranoid that their MacBooks or ThinkPads could catch fire and cause havoc at any moment. Although that string of incidents appears to be over, the most...
An exploding mobile phone battery apparently killed a South Korean man in the first such known case in this gadget-obsessed country, police say. The man, identified only by his family name Suh, was found dead...
Apple's move to Intel processors and its development of Boot Camp could triple its market share in the home markets, according to Needham & Co analyst Charles Wolf. He describes the dual boot and...
NETWORKING firm 3Com said its European HQ was damaged when an oil depot exploded yesterday morning. It said that its site, in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, had around 300 people working there, but none of its...
When users navigate to a SharePoint site, temporary files are left on the Web server's hard disk. Over time, these temporary files will take up more and more server disk space. These temporary files will...
I have just heard this on my local BBC radio station; its now confirmed on the main BBC webpage. Will update when more news comes through : my heart goes out to those who have...
