Since Panasonic relaunched Technics as a luxury brand in 2014, its retro-modern turntables have been on the pricey side – sometimes ludicrously so. Now the hi-fi sub-brand has launched a budget vinyl ...

Firefighters at Wednesday’s commercial building fire. (Photo by Adrian Childress/Times of San Diego) Crews with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department responded Wednesday to a lithium-ion battery fire ...

Philips is returning to the home hi-fi market with an intriguing new product that combines physical media with modern streaming: a Bluetooth turntable that also plays CDs. Looking rather like a ...

TUALATIN, Ore. — A weekend fire at a Tualatin business was sparked by lithium-ion batteries, according to Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue. The fire broke out just before midnight Saturday at Van ...

Lithium-ion batteries power phones, scooters and electric cars — but the increasingly common energy source can spark fires so intense that they challenge veteran firefighters. The fires burn hotter, ...

BATTERY IS LIKELY TO BLAME FOR A HOUSE FIRE IN MILTON. THE FLAMES SWEPT THROUGH A HOME ON. CHARLES IN MILTON YESTERDAY EVENING. LAST NIGHT. NO ONE WAS HURT, BUT YOU CAN SEE THERE WAS A LOT OF DAMAGE ...

The future of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technology takes center stage this month at ION GNSS+ 2025, running Sept. 8-12 at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor. The Institute of ...

Emma Raducanu shot to stardom in the tennis world at an early age. Representing the United Kingdom, Canadian-born Emma won the 2021 U.S. Open at just 18 years old. After a few years filled with ...

On a special episode (first released on July 14, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Many of today’s gadgets are powered by lithium-ion batteries, but that could be changing. Shirley Meng, a University of ...

What if the cost of powering an electric vehicle or storing renewable energy dropped by a staggering 90%? That’s the bold promise CATL, the world’s largest battery manufacturer, is making with its new ...

Chinese engineers at CATL have begun mass-producing sodium-ion cells at their new 30GWh facility in Fujian province. Chery and BYD will start using them in a few months. CATL’s first-gen sodium ...