If you’ve done work on a computer for any length of time, you’ve likely experienced the horror being in the middle of a project and the power goes sideways - either from a surge or an outage - and ...

Back when I lived in North Carolina, along what weather experts call Hurricane Alley, I was a dedicated desktop guy. The repairability and greater bang for my buck were two good reasons why I went ...

PC battery backups, or uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), can be a worthwhile addition to your desktop PC or NAS server. They generally sit near your computer and act as an intermediary for the ...

Power outages happen all the time. Some last two seconds, some two hours. Either way, a battery-backup system will keep your gear safe and let you save your work. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

The cheapest backup battery option may not always be the best choice. — -- A dying phone is many people’s worst nightmare. Experts say that backup batteries could be a solution to that problem.

A good battery backup is important if you have a lot of tech you’d like to protect from surges—or just keep running if the power drops out—but this tutorial from The 8-Bit Guy shows you how to make ...

Having a battery backup feels like you’re prepared for anything—until the lights go out and you realize it’s not actually ready to help you. The truth is, most people stop at buying the gear but never ...

Over the years, users of portable consumer electronics have just come to accept that battery life gets worse over time. But it doesn’t have to: Gbatteries, which is in the current batch of Y ...

One of the benefits of the Raspberry Pi is its low power consumption and cheap price. Because of that, it makes a great wireless backup server. However, adding an expensive battery backup would kind ...

If you are using a Windows laptop and you want to know how long you can continue to use your computer on battery backup, before you have to charge it, you can edit ...