New Year’s Resolutions: save energy the smart way

Gadgets and appliances are great, but if you’re not careful your electricity bill will keep creeping up. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to find out which of your gadgets is using the most power, and make sure that wastage is kept to a minimum: the Awox SmartPlug. Let’s take a look at how it works, and what it can do for you!

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Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 announced: faster charging, more efficient and USB-PD compatible

Qualcomm announced its newest chipset in an event in New York today. It’ll be called the Snapdragon 835, and it’ll be based on Samsung’s new 10nm process. That should make it more powerful and more power efficient. The 835 also supports Quick Charge 4.0, the latest generation of Qualcomm’s popular charging standard and the first to be fully compatible with the USB Power Delivery standard as Google ‘strongly recommended’ last week.

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