Many owners of Samsung washing machines say the devices can explode on some settings, as this screengrab from a YouTube video demonstrates. (Micah Martin/Youtube)Samsung washing machines can explode if overloaded, warns the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The consumer watchdog warned in a bulletin Thursday that some washing machines made between March 2011 and April 2016 can violently open if overloaded with heavy items such as bedding. The company didn't provide a list of affected models, but said customers can check their serial numbers via a searchable database. Samsung insists that the affected washing machine models have flawlessly performed "hundreds of millions" of loads of laundry without incident.

Source: CBC News September 29, 2016 13:23 UTC