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Nissan wants to sell its battery stake
She's electric
Nissan Motors is in talks with Panasonic and others over its controlling stake in a car battery manufacturing venture, sources said.
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Researchers take the battery out of mobile
Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform
A team of boffins working for the University of Washington's Sensor Lab have worked out a way of taking the battery out of mobile devices and keeping them powered by radio waves.
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Toshiba has major battery recall
91,000 units faulty
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a recall for battery packs in Toshiba laptops sold between June 2011 and January 2016.
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Nagra charges $720 for $32 battery
You get what you pay for
Swiss outfit Nagra has been caught charging $720 to replace a battery in its Nagra VI–an 8-channel digital recorder.
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Android Wear getting battery boost
Android 6.0 gets Doze power
Android Wear watches have a rather modest battery life of one to two days. The upcoming Android Wear 6.0 might change that, as it includes Doze power management.
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Researchers develop a lithium-ion battery which does not explode
Switches itself off if it gets too hot
Researchers have emerged from their smoke filled labs having designed a lithium-ion battery which can shut itself down if it gets too hot or might make a Dell off a bang (pictured).
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Samsung wants huge sales in batteries
Juicing up the bottom line
Samsung has just built a battery plant in China as part of its cunning plan to add a billion onto its sales figures to make up for falling smartphone sales.
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Eggs make Eggceptional batteries
You must be yoking
MIT has shelled out research on egg-like aluminum nanoparticles which they think is eggsactly what the doctor ordered for longer battery life.
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Batteriser falls flat
800 per cent claims questioned
An outfit which claims its Batteriser product can battery life by up to 800 per cent has been taking a hammering on the tech blogs.
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Chrome starts saving batteries
Saving the universe from Flash
Google's latest beta feature on Chrome has come up with a method of killing off battery draining flash heavy sites.