The NextStar Energy battery plant in Windsor is shown on Monday, June 30, 2025. Photo by Dan Janisse /Windsor Star Article content Construction on Windsor’s $6-billion NextStar Energy battery plant is officially finished. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Windsor Star ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edi...

National Pile Croppers has an array of hydraulic pile croppers at work Some 17,000 piles are being sunk into the ground for the foundations of the new Agratas £4bn electric vehicle battery factory in Bridgwater, Somerset.  The development of Building One – the first of three – is being undertaken by Balfour Beatty and two of its subcontractors, Synergy Plant and Toureen Plant, on behalf of principal contractor Sir Robert McAlpine. National Pile Croppers has been commissioned to supply and...

vivo has confirmed the launch of the V60e in India, though the exact date remains undisclosed. The company has also shared key specifications, design highlights, and pricing details of the device. The vivo V60e will be the first in the V-series to offer a 200MP main rear camera with OIS. It will also feature an 8MP ultrawide camera at the back. For selfies and video calling, the phone will pack a 50MP camera with autofocus. The handset will also offer 30x digital zoom using the main camera. Earl...

A Realme P3 Lite 4G has appeared at an online retailer in Poland. The phone appears to be a nearly identical variant of the Realme C71 – and not the C75 4G, even though the C75 5G is sold as the “Realme P3 Lite 5G” in some regions. The Realme P3 Lite 4G is powered by the Unisoc T7250, which is paired with 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage. This is expandable via microSD and there’s a 3.5mm headphone jack to boot. Realme P3 Lite 4G The phone has a 6.67” 120Hz LCD, though it’s only a 720p+...

Apple Watch Ultra 3 ZDNET’s key takeaways Apple’s rugged smartwatch is now available for purchase, starting at $799. The watch gets an additional six hours of battery life for a total of 42 hours of wear. Sleeping with the smartwatch is difficult. View now at Apple Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If the new Apple Watch Series 11, Apple’s baseline smartwatch, is the girl next door, then Apple’s Ultra 3 is the Mt. Kilimanjaro-scaling, rugged neighbor...

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 a hospital and received help to remove the smart ring. He also shared photos of the device that showed the swelling on the interior surface. We reached o...

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… had some experience with this issue in the past. On Twitter/X, @ZONEofTECH posted a set of anxiety-inducing images. According to the...

Nina Raemont/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Oura Ring 4 users report shorter battery life. The claims come a year after its debut.  Oura seems to be quickly responding to this issue.  When Oura unveiled its fourth-generation smart ring last October, its eight-day battery life was a major draw for those upgrading from the Oura Ring 3. But a year after its release, it seems like that eight-day battery claim is weakening.  Reddit users on the r/ouraring forum report that their smart rings are...