Hardware Reviews Sleek, light-weight design Fantastic battery life Quick mute hand controls Edifier doesn’t let me down when it comes to quality pairs of headphones. They seem to be releasing a good variety (at different price points) of over-the-head earphones that have a lot of positives and great sound quality. The Edifier ES850NB is another such pair of headphones. The Look of the Edifier ES850NB This pair of headphones is very sleek-looking, with a sort of textured plastic on the outs...

Apple CEO Tim Cook reached back to Steve Jobs for inspiration on Tuesday, quoting his late predecessor as he introduced the company’s slimmest handset yet—the iPhone Air. “For us, design goes beyond just how something looks or feels. Design is also how it works,” Cook said as he held up a phone just 5.6 millimeters thick. Cook later joked that the device “does seem like it’s going to fly away when you’re holding it,” according to the Wall Street Journal. But the A...

Bullivant’s Junttan PMx2e Roger Bullivant has deployed a Junttan PMx2e, powered by a 392 kWh battery system, on Morgan Sindall’s Ardrossan Community Campus site, a £115m education development in North Ayrshire. According to Bullivant, it is the first time that a fully battery-powered pile driving rig has been used in the UK. The PMx2e has a replaceable battery pack that provides up to eight hours of piling per charge. By optimising the use of the two batteries, the PMx2e showed itself t...

A former University of Southern Florida football coach had criminal charges against him dropped on Wednesday, according to multiple reports.  Jim Leavitt was arrested late last month by St. Petersburg Police on misdemeanor simple battery and domestic battery, and felony grand theft, but the state’s attorney’s office in Clearwater, Florida, said in a court filing that the “facts and circumstances” gave merit to closing the case, The Athletic reported.  Leavitt, who was the first coach a...

“Despite being much thinner and lighter, iPhone Air still gets amazing all-day battery life,” Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, John Ternus, said during Apple’s iPhone 17 launch event on Tuesday. “This is incredible — all-day battery life in our thinnest iPhone ever.” Hilariously, seconds later, Ternus revealed the “low-profile” MagSafe Battery accessory for the iPhone Air. “When using them together, iPhone Air has up t...

Those interested in the other iPhone 17 models are out of luck If you wanted to use Apple’s new MagSafe battery with the iPhone 17 series, you’re out of luck. On its online store, the tech giant confirmed that the latest MagSafe battery accessory is only compatible with the new, ultra-thin iPhone Air. In fact, the product page for the accessory is even titled “iPhone Air MagSafe Battery” in case there was any confusion. This means that those looking to pick up any of the other 17 series...

The new Apple AirPods Pro 3 have double the ANC performance, a built-in heart rate monitor and a live translation mode. The buds themselves also offer longer battery life, though that comes with an asterisk. Indeed, the Pro 3 buds are rated for up to 8 hours of continuous playback time – that’s up from 6 hours with the Pro 2 buds. However, the total listening time (buds + case) for the new model is 24 hours – that’s 6 hours short of the 30 hours that the Pro 2 buds can achieve. In other...

Baseus for MagSafe Portable Charger $30 $50 Save $20 Charger Type Portable MagSafe charger Brand Baseus Dimensions 4.6 x 2.7 x 0.7 inches The Baseus MagSafe portable charger is a Qi2-certified 10,000mAh power bank with a 15W magnetic wireless charger and a 22.5W USB-C port for fast wired charging. It has secure magnets for iPhones and graphene-enhanced cooling for safety. The Baseus MagSafe Portable Charger is currently on sale for just $30 on Amazon. This is a fantastic 40% markdown from its us...

Xiaomi is expected to replace the Xiaomi 15 on September 24. (Image source: Xiaomi) The Xiaomi 16 could well be one of three flagship smartphones that Xiaomi releases this month. In the meantime, a well-regarded leaker has summarised what to expect from Xiaomi’s next compact flagship ahead of schedule. Xiaomi is expected to deliver its next-generation flagships later this month in China. Based on recent leaks and rumours, the company will introduce a successor to not just the Xiaomi 15 (cu...