When the power fails on a subzero night, your alarms are only as trustworthy as the batteries hiding behind their plastic ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s happened to all of us: That annoying low-battery chirp that seems to go off only in the middle of the night, or the smoky dinner dish that trips the sensors. We’re talking ...

When a carbon monoxide alarm breaks the quiet with a random chirp, it is tempting to brush it off as a glitch. In reality, ...

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It can be useful to configure Windows 8.1 to play a sound when your laptop is reaching a low or critical battery level so that you never run out of battery at important moments causing you to lose ...

Beginning life as a Kickstarter campaign back in 2014, the team at Roost found a compelling, low-cost backdoor into the world of smart smoke alarms dominated by the team at Nest. Roel Peeters and ...

Overcharging the battery, recharging the battery when it isn’t fully drained, etc. impact the life of the battery. Monitoring its parameters from time to time could help you act on time and save the ...