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<title>Man injured from Samsung Galaxy Note battery explosion</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/04/south.korean.suffers.second.degree.burns.to.thigh/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1354125699_ScreenShot2012-11-28at12.01.06PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A man in South Korea was injured on Saturday after his Samsung Galaxy Note exploded. The 55-year-old man apparently suffered second-degree burns to his right thigh, after the smartphone and spare battery he stored in his pants pocket suddenly ruptured and caused damage to his body and clothing....]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/04/south.korean.suffers.second.degree.burns.to.thigh/</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Users report iOS 6.0.2 update may cause battery drain</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/20/could.come.from.increased.number.of.wi.fi.checks/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1209/Apple-108-battery-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[MacNN and other tech outlets are seeing some user reports that the latest release of iOS, 6.0.2, is causing additional battery drain on at least some devices. Reports of issues first surfaced on Apple's own support forums, and so far seems to be limited to only  some of those who were able to upgrade to v6.0.2. Apple's recent iOS and OS X updates have both suffered from scattered reports of batt...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Department of Energy creates $120M battery research hub</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/03/research.to.boost.power.five.times.in.five.years/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1345096316_carlionbatterybank-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Department of Energy is making a push to improve the technology used in batteries. The newly-formed Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), originally the Batteries and Energies Storage Hub, hopes to develop batteries five times more powerful than at present, at a fifth of the cost, over the next five years....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Leak shows iPhone 5 battery with higher capacity than 4S</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/04/battery.fits.leaked.frame/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1346797709_battery-sml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Corroborating recent reports, a fresh leak surrounding the iPhone 5 suggests Apple's sixth-generation smartphone will integrate a slightly larger battery than its predecessor. An alleged iPhone 5 battery obtained by electronics repair company iResQ appears to perfectly within the phone frame that is also claimed to be sourced from the official assembly lines....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Korean breakthrough points to quick-charge Li-ion batteries</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/16/charging.efficiencies.in.larger.batteries.increased.hundredfold/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1345096316_carlionbatterybank-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[South Korean scientists claim to have found a way to greatly reduce electric car charging times from hours to minutes. The researchers have altered the geometry and physics of a lithium-ion battery to allow the cell to charge evenly throughout the battery, rather than charging from the terminals inward during a standard reduction-oxidation reaction on larger lithium-ion batteries....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Report: slightly larger battery for 'next iPhone' seen</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/10/modest.voltage.wattage.suggests.lte.radio.drain.solved/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1207/Apple-Next-iPhone-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[One of the factors that kept an LTE "4G" radio out of the iPhone 4S was the compromise of the battery-draining next-generation cellular data transceiver. As many "4G" phone owners know, the advanced technology requires a lot of power, even when not in active use. Purported next-iPhone batteries seen in photos and sporting slightly higher specifications than existing iPhone batteries may, if accura...]]></description>
<guid>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/10/modest.voltage.wattage.suggests.lte.radio.drain.solved/</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>USPS lithium battery overseas mailing ban begins May 16</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/11/domestic.shipments.ups.fedex.unaffected/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/uspsban-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Effective May 16, the United States Postal Service (USPS) regulation prohibits shipping any electronic device with a lithium battery from being mailed to a destination outside the United States. The ban does not apply to private carriers such as DHL, FedEx, and UPS. The ban is in response to improperly packed lithium batteries being involved in two plane crashes since 2006, including a UPS jet in ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 06:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Small batch of Nikon EN-EL15 batteries overheat, expand</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/04/25/models.affected.1.v1.d700.d800.d800e/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/EN-EL15-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A small batch of Nikon batteries for the 1 V1, D7000, D800, and D800E cameras are at risk of overheating and becoming distorted during the charging process, Nikon has announced. The company has announced a battery replacement program for the affected run of the EN-EL15 battery....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Follow-up: new iPad battery takes 5.5 hours to fully charge</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/26/testing.shows.bad.indicator.can.cheat.users/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/DisplayMate-iPad-battery-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The bad battery indicator in the new third-generation iPad has been further tested by Dr. Ray Soneira, the president of DisplayMate and the leading scientist testing and explaining the technology behind the new iPad's doubled resolution and advanced "Retina Display" screen, as well as one of the first to uncover that the battery indicator falsely reads "100%" more than an hour before it is actuall...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Report: new iPad continues to charge after displaying '100%'</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/23/testing.points.to.bad.calculation.in.algorithm/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/DisplayMate-battery-iPad3-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A leading researcher examining the third-generation iPad has discovered through testing and actual voltage readings that the latest iPad requires around two hours of additional charging beyond the point where the indicator reads "100%" in order to truly achieve maximum charge. Initial testing indicates that the problem lies only in the accuracy of the on-screen battery charge indicator rather than...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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