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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Apr 21, 2025
If you sometimes wonder if regularly charging your battery to100% is a good idea, read on. Although this information should be well-known to tech enthusiasts at this point, according to experts in the electrochemical and industrial...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Apr 21, 2025
OnePlus has a new phone incoming: it's called the OnePlus 13T and it has the potential to jostle sales from the rest of the 13 series. Why? That's because the phone is set to pack a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC and a monstrous 6,260 mAh battery...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Apr 11, 2023
The FBI just issued a warning to the public against using free public USB charging ports, such as those found at airports or malls, because they've been found to be ports of entry for malware.
A recent tweet by the FBI Denver field...
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Lane Babuder - Fri, May 27, 2022
When you plug your phone, laptop, or other rechargeable devices into the wall what do you concern yourself with? Many of us just care that the charger works, some people care about the wattage, and others just want their devices to charge...
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Rob Williams - Thu, Apr 27, 2017
As you read this, you're more than likely surrounded by wireless signals. However, wouldn't it be great if those waves of energy could be utilized for purposes other than just delivering data? Apple sure thinks so, as its latest patent...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Aug 12, 2014
A platform is usually only as great as the infrastructure that supports it, even if that platform just so happens to be an automobile. While the Tesla idea is a sound one, it isn't apt to end up in the mainstream garage until there's a...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jun 05, 2014
The promise of wireless charging isn't without its limitations. Two of the big ones are that it usually requires a pad of some sort, and it's limited to smaller devices. Not so with Rezence, the first standard to wirelessly charge higher...
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Ray Willington - Thu, May 29, 2014
For years now, "wireless charging" has close to taking off. There have been major efforts to make it a household item, even reaching back to the original Palm Pre and its Touchstone charger. Lately, a few Nokia Lumia devices have supported...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Mar 17, 2014
We've heard rumblings of this happening for some time, and it looks like the fire has finally been properly lit: the European Union is one step closer to passing a law that would mandate a single, universal charger for mobile device sin...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Dec 18, 2013
In the world of technology, it's fairly tough to get the myriad companies that make our gadgets tick work together. They've all got plenty going on within their own camp, and they all feel that their take on a given technology or approach...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Jul 28, 2013
Wireless charging hasn't exactly taken the world by storm, by almost any measure you look at. That said, there's still hope for the technology, but it will likely require less expensive components, more powerful capabilities (wirelessly...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jun 17, 2013
Wireless power isn't really a reality even in the consumer world, but already we're seeing wireless options crop up for the precious few who own electric vehicles. Bosch is amongst the first, announcing the first commercially available...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Jun 09, 2013
Remember when Palm thought that wireless phone charging was the future, and then the TouchStone charger never went anywhere? Turns out, wireless charging is apt to only go mainstream once it's truly wireless; having to lay your phone on a...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Jun 08, 2013
When it comes to rapid advances in technology, we don't have a whole lot to gripe about as a society. We've got computers in our pockets, broadband-class speeds without wires, and more pixels on our displays than we can even count. But on the battery side, there's a lot of room for...
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Ray Willington - Sun, Jan 06, 2013
Is wireless charging the future? Turns out, every CES for the past few years has become home to a host of wireless charging products, but the stuff really hasn't ever taken off in the mainstream world. Naturally, the company's showing up...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Dec 20, 2012
Automobiles are changing at a faster rate than ever before, particularly in the technology space. Historically, motorcars have evolved fairly slowly compared to the rapid pace of technological change, but now that technology is becoming an...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Aug 01, 2012
Power savings? Yeah, we can get behind that. Texas Instruments has just announced a new breakthrough that it seems pretty darn proud of. It's a new suite of high-efficiency power management controllers that save standby power to help...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Apr 18, 2012
You may not be super familiar with AViiQ, but they're a mobile accessory and design company that tends to crank out some pretty unique products. The latest is the Ready Clips, giving consumers a convenient way of charging or transferring data to and from any USB 2.0. port. AViiQ Ready Clips...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Apr 11, 2012
Wireless charging has been around for years in some way or another, but there's one thing that really keeps it from booming: incompatibility. Also, inefficiency. Although the odds are against it, Chrysler is pushing forward with an industry first: in-vehicle wireless charging. And here, we can...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Aug 06, 2011
What if your car could power your home? Wait, what? It's true -- Nissan is reportedly saying that their Leaf electric card can actually feed power from its battery pack back into a home, with plenty of juice to run appliances. The new project is called Leaf to Home, and it uses Li-ion batteries as emergency backup for homes. According to Nissan,...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Mar 14, 2011
While we still have a very long way to go before electric vehicles are "the norm," Google is already one step ahead of most. The company has just added a network of electric vehicle charging stations to Google maps, which will enable those with EVs to more easily find stations to recharge...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Feb 12, 2011
With the mobile world exploding, there's a huge market growing for charging solutions. Keeping your gadgets charged has always been a top priority for heavy users, but now it's becoming entirely more mainstream. PowerTrekk is a company that's looking to mix cutting-edge charging technology...
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