Sony Laptop Recall

Sony Corp is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide due to a wiring flaw that could cause overheating. The recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008. The company had improperly placed wires near the hinge connecting the body of the laptop and its display could wear quickly and cause a short circuit and overheating. A mistake in a circuit board inside the display could also cause overheating inside its rim. Sony has already received 209 reports of overheating worldwide and seven cases where people received minor burns.

Woman Arrested Wearing Fake Bomb at Airport

In Boston a woman, named Star Simpson, was arrested at gunpoint after she walked into Logan International Airport wearing a fake bomb strapped to her chest. The fake bomb was made out of a computer circuit board, wiring, and Play-Doh putty.

A Massachusetts Port Authority official notified the police and troopers tracked Simpson down outside of Terminal C. She was arrested and it was determined the bomb was fake. Simpson is a 19 year old sophomore at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.