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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...