The Battery Issue

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  Modern horror films are finding their scares in dead phone batteries

  The Verge - Tasha Robinson

  Killing off the characters’ cellphones is now a standard trope, so horror filmmakers are learning to tackle it in creative ways About halfway through Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning directorial debut Get Out, protagonist Chris Washington (played by Black Panther’s underused Daniel Kaluuya) is pretty sure …

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  Electric flight is coming, but the batteries aren’t ready

  The Verge - Andrew J. Hawkins

  Flying requires an incredible amount of energy, and batteries are too heavy The idea of electric-powered flight has been around for decades, but only recently has it begun to take off. There are over a dozen startups and companies today that are pursuing battery-electric and hybrid prototypes, and …

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  Charging has changed how I interact with friends

  The Verge - Stefan Etienne

  Fast charging plays a big part in how we interact Every few weeks, I head up to Connecticut with five or six close friends or family members and some newfangled gaming laptop for a LAN party. Most of my gaming clan are like family to me, so we often share or loan charging peripherals. When everyone …

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  The existential loneliness of owning a USB-C phone

  The Verge - Natt Garun

  “Would you like to charge your phone?” the Lyft driver asks Wish I could say yes but it’s too herculean a task before me, a string of cords splits into three but none of them contain a USB-C At the airport, at the party a gathering at a friend’s house Lightning fast appears but all else is denounced “Hey …

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  Germany’s car industry can’t build its own battery cells

  The Verge - Wolfgang Kerler

  Angela Merkel gets impatient with VW, Daimler and BMW Nearly 130 years ago, German inventor Andreas Flocken was working on a prototype that attracted some attention in Coburg, a small town in Bavaria. On September 28th of 1888, the local newspaper wrote about a “steam chaise” in Flocken’s workshop …

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  The worst thing about my Xbox One is its reliance on batteries

  The Verge - Megan Farokhmanesh

  Two Black Fridays ago, on the tail end of a holiday hangover, I succumbed to my consumer urges and bought an Xbox One. The bonus of this particular bundle was, in my bleary eyes, the console itself: a deep teal color with a slick controller to match. It arrived even more beautiful in person, with …