QUESTION: What can I do with a Windows laptop with a battery that won’t last very long? ANSWER: Battery life is a common frustration with all portable devices and how you use your laptop can make a ...

You can show the battery percentage on your Mac computer to help track exactly how much battery life you have left, and when you need to plug it in. To turn on the battery percentage display, open the ...

Higher watt-hour (Wh) batteries generally offer longer battery life. Smaller, lower-resolution screens consume less power than larger, high-resolution displays. Non-touch displays and avoiding ...

There was a bug in Windows 11 that allowed background processes to break through standby and wake the computer, causing ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

Billions of tiny particles packed into rechargeable lithium-ion battery electrodes are responsible for storing charge and making it available when it’s needed to do work. X-ray movies of this process ...

The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta’s piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth, we now have batteries the dimensions of a graham cracker ...