Suunto Vertical 2 ZDNET’s key takeaways The Suunto Vertical 2 is available now for $599, or $699 with titanium casing. Besides the vivid 1.5-inch AMOLED display, it has a very long battery life and sports an LED flashlight. The watch is only available in one 48.6 mm diameter size, the flashlight controls are limited, and securing the pin on the band can be tough. $599 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Many of the advanced sports watches I test seem to be goi...

The iQOO 15 went official this week, and it’s rocking a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC and a potent 7,000mAh battery. The 6.85-inch 144Hz gaming phone is out in China first, and it shattered the sales records, selling in just 30 minutes what its predecessor did in its first day. Realme brought us the GT8 Pro and GT8. Both have camera systems tuned by imaging great, Ricoh, but the Pro has nicer cameras and a swappable camera island bezel design. The GT8 Pro has the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, while i...

Redmi has officially launched its latest flagship smartphone, the Redmi K90 Pro Max, in China, marking a new milestone for the brand’s premium K-series lineup. Positioned as the top-tier model in the series, the K90 Pro Max brings flagship-grade performance, a premium design, and an impressive camera system — all at an aggressive starting price that undercuts most rivals in its class. The Redmi K90 Pro Max made its debut on October 23, 2025, in China alongside the standard K90 model. The fla...

Some gadgets are designed to be sleek and pretty. The Oscal Tank 1 phone is not one of those. The entire thing is built around a battery so big it competes with power banks — and not those modest 5,000mAh units either. We’re talking about a 20,000mAh ExploVolt power cell that promises an absurd 1,080 hours of standby time.  You could probably get through an entire weekend camping trip without ever thinking about a charger. All that juice is crammed into a chassis that weighs a stagger...

Haley Zaremba Haley Zaremba is a writer and journalist based in Mexico City. She has extensive experience writing and editing environmental features, travel pieces, local news in the… More Info Premium Content By Haley Zaremba – Oct 25, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT Scientists discovered that keeping water in sodium vanadate hydrate doubles a sodium battery’s charge capacity and stability. The same technology can also remove salt from seawater, creating potential for dual-use energy and desalina...

QCY unveiled its new flagship over-ear headphones, dubbed the H3S. Featuring a design heavily influenced by the Sony WH1000 series, these promise flagship-grade ANC, excellent audio quality and impressive battery life at a fraction of the price of the established names. The QCY H3S feature adaptive –56 dB active noise cancellation, powered by a 7-microphone array. In the company’s own test they managed to reduce subway noise by up to 92% and background chatter by 85%. For calls, three an...

Michael Kern Michael Kern is a newswriter and editor at Safehaven.com and Oilprice.com,  More Info Premium Content By Michael Kern – Oct 24, 2025, 2:00 PM CDT The UAE has commenced construction on a $6 billion project that combines a 5.2 GW solar plant with a 19 GWh battery storage system, aiming to provide one gigawatt of continuous renewable energy. Developed by Masdar and EWEC, the facility is expected to be operational by 2027 and will utilize AI-enhanced forecasting to overcome the i...

Yet another Android device is dealing with battery issues Owners of the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold have been noticing a strange new bug, as several Redditors have reported a question mark instead of a battery percentage indicator. Apart from some speculation, no one has any actual idea why the battery is doing this. Android Central pointed out that the issue seems to be popping up for users who are using a wireless charger, especially third-party or non-Qi2-certified ones. One theory is that the...

Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. (Masdar) and Emirates Water and Electricity Co. (EWEC) have started building a solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi that will deliver 1 GW of continuous baseload energy from a 5.2 GW solar plant paired with a 19 GWh battery system. October 24, 2025 Brian Publicover Masdar and EWEC have begun construction on what they describe as the world’s first gigawatt-scale renewable energy project to deliver continuous, round-the-clock power. The development combines a 5.2 G...

HOUSTON — Doris Brown was nearly asleep when a neighbor knocked on her door, telling her to look outside. “There were no lights, nowhere,” said Brown, recalling the power outage that summer night in 2023. “I didn’t even know it.” Brown’s solar panel and battery system was keeping her power on. She’d prepared for a night like this. “Call everybody,” she told the neighbor. Soon around 15 “neighbors and neighbors’ neighbors” were inside Brown’s th...