Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Look Up Say More Mashable Selects Mashable Voices Safety Net Creator Hub Versus Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Switch Off Trending Now In My Bag All Series The 6 best battery life laptops we've ever tested Laptops' battery lives have gotten so much better in recent years, and our current top pick lasts 40 hours per charge. Haley Henschel is a Chicago-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable who reviews and finds deals on popular tech, from laptops to gaming consoles and VPNs. She has years of experience covering shopping holidays and can tell you what's actually worth buying on Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day. Her work has also explored the driving forces behind digital trends within the shopping sphere, from dupes to 12-foot skeletons . All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. You want a laptop that can reliably get you through a full day of work, but the best laptops for battery life we've tested have lasted literal in our tests.

We tested hundreds of options--our top picks from Apple, Google, Samsung, and Beats are standout favorites that are ready for any task. I use Wireless earbuds constantly. I use them for work, running, working out, relaxing, traveling--whatever I am doing, chances are I have a pair of wireless earbuds on me, just in case. While some of the earliest models were huge and inconvenient, earbuds nowadays are slim, comfortable, and often affordable. The WIRED Reviews team doesn't just use earbuds--we test them. And after weeks of music, calls, commutes, and rogue earbuds flying out of our ears, we've chosen these favorites that are the best for most people.

For most people, a set of nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) rechargeable batteries is the way to go. Panasonic Eneloop is an Engadget staff favorite. It's consistent and tends to hold up over time better than cheaper options. If you want to save a few bucks, IKEA LADDA is a good budget alternative. Both are sold in the AA and AAA sizes you need for these systems.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen The hidden diagnostic file breaks down all the logging your Pixel, Samsung, or even Motorola does daily. Here's how I've been using it. The'dumpstate' is a hidden diagnostic file you can easily access. It breaks down your phone's battery health, excess cache, and more. Most of the analysis can be done on your phone, but using ADB on a PC helps.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I fact-checked the internet's favorite battery tips, and most of them are horribly outdated. Charging to 100% stresses your battery, as most cap at 80%. Not a week goes by that I'm not correcting someone who is still recycling some battery myth packaged as a tip from the nickel-cadmium era (also known as the 1990s). These tips have been repeated and regurgitated so many times. A quick Google search (or an AI prompt) turns up plenty of articles that reassure readers that the tips are 100% grounded in present-day, lithium-ion era reality, when they most definitely are not.

I put handheld, wearable, and misting fans through a sweltering summer to see which ones kept me coolest. When I was first hired as a commerce editor at WIRED in summer 2024, one of the first media requests I fielded was from a nationally renowned talk show. The ask was for an editor to speak on the popularity of portable and neck fans. High-temperature records were breaking all over the US, and abroad, neck fans were suddenly the "it" accessory at the Paris Olympics, hugging the nape of athletes like Simone Biles. "I can't do this," I told my manager at the time.

Upgrade your space with a smart toilet, new tools, a robotic lawn mower, and several dozen more clever devices and technologies that make home a better place. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . The home doesn't announce its upgrades the way a phone does. Progress shows up as a battery that recharges in about ten minutes, a wall paint that's EPA-registered to kill germs, and a shower that reuses the water it just heated. For our second annual Home of the Future Awards, we evaluated dozens of new products and selected those that use new or clever technology to do something that actually matters. They improve daily life, solve a real problem, make a home more accessible, or waste less of everything. You don't need fire starting skills.

Solid-state batteries are safer and more capable--but harder to mass-produce. They also represent an opportunity for non-Chinese companies to get back in the game. The field of lithium batteries is currently dominated by Chinese companies like BYD and CATL. Not only do they sell the majority of batteries that go into electric vehicles and energy storage projects worldwide, they're also opening up new factories in your backyard . When companies outside China try to compete, like Europe's Northvolt, they quickly realize how hard it is .

PCWorld's battery testing reveals AMD's Ryzen AI 7 445 processor delivers disappointing battery life performance in laptops like the Acer Swift Go 14 AI. The chip ranked last in streaming tests and efficiency scores, falling behind Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Intel's Core Ultra processors. With Ryzen AI 400 processors appearing in about a third of productivity laptops, users may want to consider Intel or Qualcomm alternatives for better battery performance. AMD's Ryzen mobile processors appear in about a third of all productivity laptops sold today. So, how does the Ryzen AI 400, AMD's latest mobile processor, actually hold up in real-world battery tests?

Predictive models are increasingly embedded in operational decision-making, yet standard explanation methods typically explain forecasts rather than the decisions those forecasts induce. This distinction is important in predict-then-optimize systems: large forecast changes may leave the optimizer's action unchanged, while small changes can alter the selected decision and its realized value. We propose Decision Value Attribution (DVA), a Shapley-based framework for attributing the value of a fixed prediction--optimization pipeline. The framework defines cooperative games whose payoff is the downstream decision value, allowing the players to be information sources, optimization or design parameters, or both. We present three variants: InfoDVA attributes value to features, DesignDVA attributes value to operational configurations, and Decision-Value Interactions (DVI) quantifies how information and design jointly create value. We further distinguish post-DVA, which evaluates decisions using realized outcomes, from pre-DVA, which evaluates decisions under the model's full prediction. This separation turns attribution into a decision-level diagnostic of whether the model's operational beliefs align with realized performance. The resulting attributions are expressed in the units of the operational objective and decompose the gain or loss relative to a baseline. Case studies in electricity storage arbitrage and emergency medical service coverage show that predictive explanations can be poor proxies for operational value, that DVA can guide targeted information-control interventions, and that optimization configurations determine when predictive information is decision-relevant.