For many of us, keeping our smartphones, gadgets, laptops, and even our cars charged up and ready when we need them has become a daily ritual — even if we pick up some bad charging habits along the ...

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Not all batteries get used all the time. While the AA batteries in your wall clock, home security camera, or TV remote may get a daily workout, other battery-powered items like flashlights, drones, ...

Everyday life is ruled by batteries. Everything, it seems, runs on juice, and not the delicious kind. The anxiety-inducing kind. The kind that leaves you scrambling through your junk drawer, hoping ...

Muscatine Fire Department is urging residents to practice lithium-ion battery safety as holiday shoppers buy more devices ...

A new state law aims to cut down on dangerous battery fires by expanding how rechargeable batteries get recycled in New York. Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick announced the signing of legislation that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Batteries aren't quite as omnipresent as they once were, since so many modern electronics come with rechargeable lithium-ion battery packs ...