According to The Tech Report NVIDIA is recalling some Shield tablets due to a battery fire risk:
Some Nvidia Shield Tablets built between July 2014 and July 2015 could pose a fire risk. The batteries in the affected tablets can apparently overheat to dangerous levels. As a result, the company has issued a recall notice. The recall applies only to tablets that show a battery model of Y01 on the About Tablet screen in the Settings application.
PCWorld reports that this affect 88,000 tablets.
Further coverage at Ars Technica.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday August 03 2015, @08:38AM
As told in half a dozen sci fi stories, when you really need the shield, it is overheating.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:28AM
as I post, fortune (bottom of page) = "Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers"
FTW?