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Sony Recalls Half a Million Too-Hot-to-Handle Notebooks

Sony has issued a voluntary global recall of 535,000 Vaio notebook computers after reports of a defect in the devices’ temperature control software was brought to its attention. The flaw can cause the notebook to overheat, sometimes to an extreme degree. The recalled products are from the VPCF11 Series and VPCCW2 Series notebook computers, slightly less than half of which are in the U.S. Sony has also offered a firmware patch for the defect, Stacey Palosky, spokesperson for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, told TechNewsWorld.