{"id":156673,"date":"2023-01-31T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/canadian-team-discovers-power-draining-flaw-in-most-laptop-and-phone-batteries"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:31:18","slug":"canadian-team-discovers-power-draining-flaw-in-most-laptop-and-phone-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/canadian-team-discovers-power-draining-flaw-in-most-laptop-and-phone-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canadian-team-discovers-power-draining-flaw-in-most-laptop-and-phone-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The phone, tablet or laptop you\u2019re reading this on is likely having its battery slowly drained because of a surprising and widespread manufacturing flaw, according to researchers in Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that is totally unexpected and something that probably no one thought of,\u201d said Michael Metzger, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University.<\/p>\n<p>The problem? Tiny pieces of tape that hold the battery components together are made from the wrong type of plastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phone, tablet or laptop you\u2019re reading this on is likely having its battery slowly drained because of a surprising and widespread manufacturing flaw, according to researchers in Halifax. \u201cThis is something that is totally unexpected and something that probably no one thought of,\u201d said Michael Metzger, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. The problem? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}