Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it — contracts that no one actually reads. It’s impossible for us to read and analyze every single one of these agreements. But we started counting exactly how many times you have to hit “agree” to use devices when we review …
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With the latest update, the Pixel Buds Pro 2 now broadcasts its battery life to all your devices, while there’s now a “Fully charged” notification. That 100% alert is pretty straightforward and matches the Pixel Watch, with Google briefly mentioning it last month. What’s new today is how Pixel Buds Pro 2 appears to broadcast the battery level for all …
Read More »Sometimes when a device fails, it fails in spectacular fashion. Daniel Rotar, who leads the ZONEofTECH YouTube channel, posted on X today that the battery on his Samsung Galaxy Ring began swelling while he was wearing it. “I cannot take it off and this thing hurts,” he wrote. A few hours later, Rotar posted again that he had gone to …
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TL;DR A Galaxy Ring user says the battery swelled while the device was on their finger, leaving it stuck and painful. The user was denied boarding a flight and had the ring removed in hospital using ice and medical lubricant. Photos of the ring after it was removed show a visibly distorted battery. The Samsung Galaxy Ring is designed to …
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A recent report online shows images of an immovable Galaxy Ring with a swollen battery, showcasing a nightmare scenario for a smart ring and causing both a missed flight and a hospital visit. Batteries can expand when overcharged or as they age; that’s just the nature of lithium-ion cells. Swollen batteries, though, can be a serious problem. Samsung has… uh… …
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8.3/ 10 SCORE Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 Pros Double the battery life of previous glasses Improved video quality No change to size, can swap lens from older model Cons Higher price Still no landscape photo or video mode AI features are still a mixed bag Editor’s Note: The previous-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses were already CNET’s favorite smart glasses by a …
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Testing the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 glasses for the past week, after two years of wearing the original Ray-Ban Metas on and off, has made it immediately clear that Meta significantly improved these glasses in key ways — but left the core experience (and some of my old complaints) unchanged. Meta handed out the Gen 2s like candy at Connect …
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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Increased battery drain is normal following a major OS update. Your phone needs time to complete the setup in the background. iOS 26 offers a new Adaptive Power mode to extend your battery charge. Raise your hand if you’ve updated your iPhone …
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As is now a long-standing custom, iFixit performed a full teardown of the latest iPhone—this time, the newly launched iPhone Air. These teardowns got pretty routine for a while, as Apple settled into a fairly consistent design for iPhones, but the new design of the iPhone Air offered an opportunity for compelling observations. Many of the important components—including the entire …
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The Apple iPhone Air. (Image Source: Apple) Apple’s new iPhone Air is equipped with a laughably small battery in a world where even compact phones sport 5,000 mAh batteries. In spite of that, the iPhone Air manages to offer solid battery life in hands-on tests—better than the Galaxy S25 Edge, and astonishingly close to the iPhone 17. Apple’s iPhone 17 …
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