JLab Epic Pods ANC Review: A Battery Beast if There Ever Was One

JLab Epic Pods ANC Review: A Battery Beast if There Ever Was One

If you’re going to make a pair of wireless earbuds in today’s day and age, you’d better have something to bring to the table. As I’ve said a million times now (maybe more times than there are pairs of wireless earbuds in the world), the wireless headphones and earbuds market is crowded. That makes a lot of pairs redundant, and it makes deciding which ones to buy a bit of a puzzle. Everyone’s priorities are a little different in the wireless earbuds world, but the core tenets typically...
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Inside WrappedCBDC’s plan to turn the naira into a high-speed digital rail

Inside WrappedCBDC’s plan to turn the naira into a high-speed digital rail

WrappedCBDC set out to fix how Nigerians move money with a naira-backed stablecoin. After 11 months and 1 billion tokens issued since its launch, the company is now trying to prove that a digital currency backed by a “volatile” naira can earn real trust and serve as a rail for easing naira movement. Compliant Naira (cNGN), the stablecoin backed by the local currency, was first listed on the provisionally licenced Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange, Busha, on February 3, 2025, but the vision to...
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra receives 3C certification, charging speed revealed

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra receives 3C certification, charging speed revealed

The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is rumored to debut at the end of January 2026. It is expected to offer similar battery capacity as the S25 Ultra, but may support faster charging. A new listing on the 3C certification website has now confirmed the phone’s charging speed. A Samsung smartphone with the model number SM-S9480 has been listed on the China 3C certification website. The listing reveals that the device will support up to 60W fast charging. This is particularly interesting because Samsung...
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Inlyte proves out first full-scale iron–sodium battery system in factory test

Inlyte proves out first full-scale iron–sodium battery system in factory test

According to Inlyte, the tested unit incorporates what it describes as the world’s largest sodium metal chloride battery cells and modules built to date, with each module capable of storing more than 300 kWh of energy. December 12, 2025 Marija Maisch...
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Suspend introduction of new number plates -VEMAG

Suspend introduction of new number plates -VEMAG

• Mr Quansah speaking at the briefing Photo: Victor A. Buxton THE Vehicle Embossment Association of Ghana (VEMAG), a body representing number plate embossers in the country, has called on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to suspend the introduction of the digitalised number plates it intend to introduce from January next year for at least the first half of the year. It has also called on the Minister of Transport, Mr Joseph Bukari Nukpe, to oblige the Chief Executive Officer (...
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Smartphone Without a Battery (2022)

How to wire and run an old smartphone without a battery. Intro I have an old Samsung Galaxy S5 that I wanted to use to run my 3D printer. There is a great project called octo4a that runs OctoPrint on Android devices. octo4a Using an old smartphone for OctoPrint is a perfect fit – it has USB OTG support to connect to the printer, WiFi to access the controls and upload models, and a camera to monitor the print progress. The only, yet critical, issue is that the kernel for Galaxy S5 does not...
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City Beach Violated Law with Unsafe Button Batteries | Mirage News

City Beach Violated Law with Unsafe Button Batteries | Mirage News

The Federal Court has found that fashion retailer Fewstone, trading as City Beach, breached the Australian Consumer Law by selling a range of consumer novelty products that did not comply with mandatory button battery safety and information standards. The Court found that between June 2022 and October 2024 City Beach sold more than 60 product types containing button batteries that did not comply with the button battery safety and/or information standards. The products included toys, digital note...
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PCNGI commissions 40 electric-powered buses

PCNGI commissions 40 electric-powered buses

News December 11, 2025 by John Ofikhenua, Abuja The Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGI) yesterday commissioned 40 electric-powered vehicles in Abuja to advance the country’s clean energy transition. The Minister of State for Gas, Ekperikpe Ekpo, who launched the buses, said the rollout marks “another bold step in Nigeria’s journey towards cleaner, smarter and more sustainable mobility.” Ekpo, who was represented by his aide, Abel Igheghe, said the initiative reflects t...
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One person killed and six injured in Melbourne crash

One person killed and six injured in Melbourne crash

Advertisement National One person has died and six people are in hospital after three vehicles collided in Melbourne’s west overnight. Updated December 12, 2025 — 5:04am,first published December 12, 2025 — 5:00am Loading Latest in Videos Video icon0:34 Tiger shark caught off Rainbow Bay on Gold Coast Video icon1:13 Highlights from the 2023 AFCON Victoria final Video icon0:51 WWE stars bid farewell to Cena Video icon2:35 What you should know about Ozempic and other GLP-1s Video icon0:30...
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Police storm major UK motorway as lorry driver arrested and 13 people detained

Police storm major UK motorway as lorry driver arrested and 13 people detained

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