The 36-year-old Capriati has been hit with battery and stalking charges in Palm Beach County, Florida. The charges stem from an incident between the former tennis star and her ex-boyfriend on Valentine’s Day. She is alleged to have hit Ivan Brannan on that day, and is also charged with “willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly” stalking the man around Valentine’s Day in 2012.

The New York Post has reported that Brannan told police that Capriati accosted him at a gym on Valentines day and hit him in the chest four times. The report also recounts accusations that Capriati stalked Brannan at his workplace, pounding on the windows and calling him dozens of times a day.

Capriati has denied the allegations via Twitter, stating that Brennan is lying and that she is “outraged” about the allegations:

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These lies and turmoil are only happening because of this man!Look at what he has done to the MOTHER of his own son not just me!! #abuse

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@JenCapriati I am Ivan Brannan’s ex fiance and the mother of OUR son! #abuse #lies

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“@chriscorleymc2: @JenCapriati He is doing the same thing to you as he did to me!!” He has gone too far trying to destroy our lives!!

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Just remember no person no situation can steal your joy away and change who u are. gods love is always there and always has a bigger plan

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All of this is absurd.im outraged by the media,by my ex,the false accusations, not being able to say the truth,Lyme disease,my injuries..

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My tennis career robbed from me, the mischaracterizations,the betrayals #exhausted#give me peace

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I don’t know how to play the media game and think about what to say and not to say but the truth is all I know and someone else knows it too

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I’m waiting for Ashton kutcher to jump out at me and say uve just been punk’d!! Lol Ashton where are u??!!

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“[Toyota] and the BMW Group share the same strategic vision of future sustainable mobility,” said Norbert Reithofer, chairman of the board at BMW. “In light of the technological changes ahead, the entire automotive industry faces tremendous challenges, which we also regard as an opportunity. This collaboration is an important building block in keeping both companies on a successful course in the future.”

A new fuel-cell system will be jointly developed by the companies, which includes a hydrogen tank, motor, and battery. The project is slated to be completed in 2020, and codes and standards for the hydrogen infrastructure will also be developed.

BMW and Toyota will also jointly develop lightweight technologies for vehicle bodies. The research will include reinforced composites, which could be included in another joint venture: a mid-size sports car. A feasibility study on the jointly designed car is due by the end of 2013, and the companies will combine their technology and engineering know-how to “maximise customer satisfaction.

Perhaps the most far-reaching collaboration the companies will undertake is the development of lithium-air battery technology. Such batteries would have energy densities far greater than current lithium-ion batteries.

“It is just over a year since we signed our collaborative MoU [memorandum of understanding), and with each day as our relationship strengthens, we feel acutely that we are making steadfast progress,” said Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota. “Now, we are entering the phase that promises the fruit. While placing importance on what we learn from the joint development, we will work hard together in reaching our common goal of making ever-better cars.”

9to5Mac got a hold of some images that seem to be the new battery that will power the iPhone 5. It wouldn’t be that exciting if it weren’t for the fact that the new battery features some promising upgrades from previous models.

According to the source, the new battery is thinner and features a higher capacity of 1440 mAh. The iPhone 4S had a battery with a capacity of 1430 mAh. It has a voltage of 3.8, which is up from a voltage of 3.7 on the iPhone 4S. It also has a watts-per-hour measurement of 5.45, which is up from 5.3 on the iPhone 4S.

If none of that made sense to you, just know this: the new iPhone is going to last longer than previous models. There were some prior reports that indicated the iPhone 5 as having battery production problems. Today’s leak seems to indicate that the batteries being produced now are finally up to Apple’s standards.

As 9to5Mac points out, however, the increased battery may also be due to 4G LTE. It requires a larger battery and the new capacity featured in this battery would be enough to push a LTE connection without having to sacrifice general power use.

Like all rumors, nothing is absolutely confirmed until Apple shows off the iPhone 5 at its rumored September 12 reveal. That being said, there’s a good chance that the majority of these leaks and rumors are real. If the rumors do turn out to be true, we could be getting a pretty awesome phone from the guys at Cupertino.

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Judge Takeo Sakae announced his verdict on Wednesday, stating, “It is recognized the battery has an overheating defect.” Because fire come out from the product, damages were awarded covering medical bills for the woman burned, along with the desk that the Nano was charging on when it caught fire. There was a mention of alimony, though there is no word on whether or not the plaintiffs divorced over the flaming device. Apple Japan had no comment on the matter, and stated that reporters should ask Apple U.S.

While Apple got a break on the transporting of its lithium batteries last year, the company has had some problems in the past. In 2005, Apple recalled 128K laptops, due to their batteries being fire hazards, and more recently, there have been multiple reports of iPhones exploding all over the world.

Interesting, Apple issued a recall for its first generation iPod Nano last year, citing a fire hazard. Strange that a company would recall a product that had been on the market for almost a decade, but exploding batteries are no joke. The Setagaya-ku couple must not have been aware of the replacement program.

Until now ORBs of 0.7mm thickness were standard, but this thickness is difficult to integrate into a plastic card that is only 0.76mm.

This new battery is superior in many ways and will offer new functionality that previous ORBs could not. The new ORB is more flexible, offers higher output and recharges faster. This could lead to cards that include an electronic display, antennae, or more advanced encryption technology.

The reduction in size was accomplished through new printing technologies that allow the battery to be printed directly on the card. A new polymer film of 0.05mm thickness was used, replacing the 0.2mm thickness aluminum laminate that is conventional for ORBs.

Prototypes are capable of 2,000 display screen updates, 360 consecutive flash firings and 35 location transmissions on a single charge. Furthermore, charge-discharge tests indicate that the batteries maintain 75% of their initial charge-discharge capacity after 500 cycles, equivalent to the performance of lithium-ion batteries for mobile phones.

Though the total power output is low at 3mAh capacity, the power density per volume is high at 5kW/L.

This technology could be used on IC credit cards to display the current balance directly on the card, or for security purposes to track where the card is without it physically being used. If they find a way to increase the power capacity, while maintaining the high power density per volume, the potential for this technology would be limitless.

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About 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006 and branded as the Nokia BL-5C have been recalled due to potential overheating problems.

Fortunately, Nokia noted in its statement about the problem that all of the approximately 100 overheating incidents happened while the battery was being charged.

A web page hosted by Nokia about the batteries lists the models that use the BL-5C, and provides a way to check the battery identification number against ones being recalled.

Nokia and Matsushita will replace batteries that prove to be from the production run in question. No serious injuries or property damage has been reported from any of the short circuiting incidents people have encountered with the battery.

I should have, and if you own an affected model, you should get your battery exchanged.

You may not be having problems (I saw no problems until this week) but chances are that you will. Interestingly, Apple doesn’t say that you actually will have problems, just that “We recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high standards for battery performance”. Well, that’s pretty vague, but here’s what I actually experienced:

I don’t often use my machine disconnected from power. I have calibrated it a few times, and never saw any problem during that. I fell out of the habit of discharging it slightly at night as I was doing originally.

Once every few weeks I bring the computer when I visit my mother at her nursing home; I use it to show her pictures of family and friends.

Three weeks ago I noticed something strange: the battery didn’t last quite long enough to show all the pictures. I thought that was unusual, but it was an unusually large batch of photos, and the battery had not been fully discharged for a while, so.. I thought it was normal.

But then this weekend I had another batch of pictures to show. I thought to bring my power adaptor just in case, and sure enough, the computer shut off part way through the pictures. I noted the time: it was only a few minutes. I plugged it in and finished showing the pictures.

The battery charge went back up to 100%, but now I was suspicious: I unplugged it again, and it shutoff within two minutes. Obviously something wrong..

Back home last night I let it charge up again. I noticed this time the charge won’t go beyond 98% and if I unplug it, it fails very quickly.

Apparently this is what Apple is concerned about.. so I found my serial number, checked it with their site, and yup, this is one of the “bad” ones. Check yours before you have a problem.

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The new 15.4-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros will contain Intel Merom Core 2 Duo processors, the mobile flavor of the Core 2 lineup. 17-inch MacBook pros will come standard with a 2.33 Ghz processor, while the 15.4-inch notebooks will have a 2.16 Ghz chip for the base model, with an option to upgrade to 2.33 Ghz.

Overall Apple claims that the change in processor will give the MacBook Pro lineup a 39 percent increase in performance over the previous generation. It remains to be seen whether than number indicates an increase in overall system performance or a single, errant benchmark that happened to perform exceptionally well with the new Merom chips. Either way Intel’s Core 2 Duo is such a potent piece of silicon that it currently has no rival in the consumer market.

The new MacBook Pros also get a memory upgrade, with the 15.4-inch and 17-inch models boasting 1GB and 2GB of memory respectively. Apple’s trademarked Superdrive DVD-RW drive also comes standard on both notebooks, with 6x DVD-writing capabilities on the 15.4-inch book and a hefty 8x DVD-writer on the 17-inch.

Apple updated its iMac desktop lineup early in September, employing the desktop version of Intel’s Core 2 Duo dubbed Conroe. Benchmarks in the Core-2-Duo-equipped iMac lineup showed a 50-percent increase over its predecessors.

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The iPod loses eight percent of its battery when playing FairPlay AAC tracks, while PlaysForSure devices lose from 2-5 hours. The Creative Zen Vision: M dropped from 16 hours to 12 hours.

The theory (and probably the accurate reason) is that DRM music uses the processor of the player more, draining the battery faster. Of course, it is also possible that WMA/AAC files drain the battery more than MP3 files.

Either way, while this is something that companies should be working on, I think we can all agree that it is more important for them to concentrate on longer battery lives in general. After all, if your player gets 40 hours, but only 35 with DRM, that’s not terrible.

Still, its just another downside of DRM.

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In less esoteric terms, that means soon consumers won’t need to worry about mobile phone or notebook computer battery lifespan. It will power up and stay powered up.

The energy storage device is called an ultracapacitor-a next generation super-battery that stores energy as an electrical field using atomic-level nanotube structures. Though ultracapacitors have been around since the 1960′s, and used in fuel-cell vehicles for extra acceleration, the nanotube-based devices are now small enough to be used in a range of electronic devices.

Developed by M.I.T.’s Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES), the ultracapacitors hold a 10-year-plus lifetieme, are indifferent to temperature change, highly immune to shock and vibration, and have high charging and discharging efficiency.

The key to developing an ultracapacitor small enough to be used in mobile electronics and outlast a standard lithium ion battery was the utilization of vertically aligned, single-wall carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes are one thirty-thousandth the diameter of a human hair and 100,000 times as long as they are wide.

By making them vertically aligned, developers were able to overcome problems with irregular shapes that reduced efficiency and increased surface area. The LEES ultracapacitor nanotubes are only several atomic diameters in width, and can be made into any of the sizes currently available, produced by conventional technology.

“This configuration has the potential to maintain and even improve the high performance characteristics of ultracapacitors while providing energy storage densities comparable to batteries,” said Joel E. Schindall, the Bernard Gordon Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and associate director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems

“Nanotube-enhanced ultracapacitors would combine the long life and high power characteristics of a commercial ultracapacitor with the higher energy storage density normally available only from a chemical battery.”

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