With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Other than the new Search button on the ...

I understand alternate facts. Sometimes my iPhone’s battery meter delivers them. Fact: I have a 18-month-old Apple iPhone 6. I keep it in good shape, never dropping it, subjecting it to extreme ...

If something runs on batteries, you’ll find a battery meter somewhere on it. Your smartphone, your vape; even batteries themselves can tell you how close they are to dying. So why am I excited about ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Imagine if at the beginning of the day, a clock started counting down the time ...

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For those of you with an iPhone 6S or an iPhone 6S Plus, has your phone shut down despite displaying a full battery? Well that means your phone is showing signs of a bug that doesn't update the ...

Windows only: Taskbar status application BatteryBar adds a battery life meter to the Windows taskbar with detailed battery life information and eye candy in a mouseover dialog. Once installed, ...

Windows OS makes use of a feature of modern laptop batteries which have circuitry and firmware that can report to Windows the overall health of the battery. This is reported in absolute terms as ...

Often, simple robotics projects are powered from a small power bank consists of common dry cells (1.5Vx4=6V) or Lithium-Polymer cells (2S LiPo=7.2V). Ofcourse, the 5V required for the microcontroller ...