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The world is moving toward renewable energy, but progress has been slow. Part of the problem is that power sources like wind and solar are inconsistent, and battery technology isn’t advanced enough to smooth it out. Developing new battery materials is a tedious process, but scientists at the Department of …

Oppo is one of the largest smartphone makers in the world, but you’d never know it if you buy all your phones in the US. Oppo is part of the Chinese megacorporation BBK Electronics, which also runs Vivo, Realme, and OnePlus among others. Smartphones in this family are about to …

Normally it’s a pretty solid assumption that whatever “revolutionary new battery chemistry” has just hit the news is going to crash and burn — sometimes literally. Maybe the thing uses some outlandishly expensive metal as a catalyst, or it has to be supercooled to be well-behaved, or you have to …

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities is predicting that Apple will refresh the MacBook Pro this year, with both Kaby Lake processors and a substantial RAM upgrade. Apple’s decision to stick with 16GB of RAM and Intel’s older Skylake processors were both criticized when the MacBook Pro refresh launched in …

Apple has announced, via Twitter, that it’s working with Consumer Reports to nail down what happened to its MacBook and MacBook Pro hardware. The announcement came from Phil Schiller, who reports the company is “Working with CR to understand their battery tests. Results do not match our extensive lab tests …

Update (12/1/2016): Apple has announced an exchange program for certain iPhone 6S’ purchased between September and October, 2015. This addresses the persistent “Battery life stuck at 30%” issue described below. Apple has not commented on reports of reduced battery life or excessive heat, and has announced no plans to address …

It’s not unusual for new hardware to have a few bugs to work out, but Apple’s response to the battery life issues its users have been experiencing with the MacBook Pro seems to take the cake. The macOS 10.12.2. update dropped today, and it contains a bevy of bug fixes …

Microsoft has released a video testing the Microsoft Edge browser next to Google’s Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox. The video below shows four identical notebooks being tested side by side, each using a different browser. To understand the impact, we compared today’s leading browsers across three independent dimensions. First, we …

If you are searching for a truly wireless security camera that is capable of running for up to 2 years without the need to change its battery. As well as requiring no monthly fee to view your cloud stored recordings, you may be interested in Blink which is now available …

Microsoft released a software update for their Surface Pro 3 tablet back in August which was designed to fix the battery problems on the device. Now it looks like the problems have surfaced again, Microsoft uses batteries in the device from two suppliers, Simplo and LG. The first battery which …