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Samsung confirms battery as cause of Note 7 fires

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Samsung's probe into its Galaxy Note 7  has found that the overheating and burning of the phones was caused by faults with their batteries. The firm had axed its iphone competitor  in October last year after an earlier botched recall and re-release. The recall is thought to have cost $5.3bn (£4.3bn) and was hugely damaging for the South Korean firm's reputation. On Monday, Samsung said that neither software nor hardware were at fault, only the batteries. Internal and independent investigations "concluded that batteries were found to be the cause of the Note 7 incidents", the South Korean technology giant  said in a statement . So what went wrong? The company said that errors both in design and manufacturing affected batteries by two different manufacturers. According to the findings, the problems centred on insufficient insulation material within the batteries and a design that did not give enough room to safely accommodate the batteries' elec

Is burnt toast a danger to your health

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Experts say bread, chips and potatoes should be cooked to a golden yellow color, rather than brown, to reduce our intake of a chemical which could cause cancer. Acrylamide is produced when starchy foods are roasted, fried or grilled for too long at high temperatures Is there acrylamide in food?  Researchers in Europe and the United States have found acrylamide in certain foods that were heated to a temperature above 120 degrees Celsius (248 degrees Fahrenheit), but not in foods prepared below this temperature ( 1 ). Potato chips and French fries were found to contain higher levels of acrylamide compared with other foods ( 2 ). The World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stated that the levels of acrylamide in foods pose a “major concern” and that more research is needed to determine the risk of dietary acrylamide exposure ( 2 ).