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Apple laptop batteries can be hacked and destroyed

Well-known security researcher Charles Miller is scheduled to demonstrate at the Black Hat security conference how to break into the batteries powering several models of Apple's ( NASDAQ: AAPL )

Methane powered laptops could be coming soon

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) say that they are one step closer to developing commercially viable methane fuel cells, which work by converting chemical

No battery-related problems found in Windows 7, says Microsoft

We reported last week on how some users have come forward complaining of battery issues after installing Windows 7. Suspicion has been initially cast on problems with firmware giving erroneous

Taiwanese researchers work to make lithium-ion batteries safer

Researchers in Taiwan have created a new polymer they are calling "self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture"--or just STOBA for short. According to them, STOBA can help prevent

Laptop batteries that won't die

Laptop batteries were never meant to die. But plenty of CIOs have a different kind of experience. Even when fully charged, a laptop battery might last for half the trip across the country, not even

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Nokia to recall 46 million mobile phone batteries

Just yesterday, we were furrowing our brows at the thought of Toshiba recalling a

Toshiba announces third Sony battery recall

Oh, you have got to be kidding me. The latest development in a story that's been going on for so agonizingly long that I've run out of clever ways to introduce it, is that

Sony, Apple sued over exploding battery

Having begrudgingly recalled more than 10 million laptop batteries due to overheating,

Sony battery fiasco flares on: Toshiba joins recall

Like that cut in your mouth that never heals, an old flame you can never seem to forget or a scandal that just won't blow over,