The ShinyHunters extortion group stole personal information from 1.6 million RingCentral accounts after hacking the company in July, according to the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.
RingCentral is a cloud-based collaboration and communication platform used by over 600,000 businesses for services such as calling, messaging, and voicemail.
The company disclosed the incident on July 28, revealing that its systems were compromised following what it described as a “sophisticated social engineering campaign.”
“We have not seen any new unauthorized activity since taking these remediation efforts. To date, this incident has affected data for a limited portion of RingCentral customers, and we are communicating with affected customers directly,” it noted.
“If you are not contacted by RingCentral, you are not affected. This incident did not impact the core RingCentral platform, and our services continue to operate without disruption.”
Although RingCentral has not attributed the breach to a specific threat actor or hacking group and has yet to share further details on the incident, the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed responsibility on July 27, claiming they had stolen 623GB of data.
After the company refused to pay a ransom to have the stolen data destroyed, the cybercrime group leaked a compressed archive containing 280GB worth of files on their dark web leak site.
While a RingCentral spokesperson didn’t immediately reply when contacted by BleepingComputer to confirm ShinyHunters’ claims, Have I Been Pwned confirmed the link after analyzing the leaked data and said on Thursday that it contained records for 1.6 million accounts, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses.
“In July 2026, the cloud-based business communications platform RingCentral was the target of a ShinyHunters ‘pay or leak’ extortion campaign,” it said.
Although RingCentral has yet to share exactly how the threat actors gained access to its systems, ShinyHunters has claimed breaches at hundreds of Salesforce customers over the past year, saying they’ve stolen over 1.5 billion records in Salesloft Drift and Salesforce Aura campaigns.
The extortion group was also linked to security breaches at more than a dozen Snowflake customers, as well as various other third-party integration providers.
Most recently, ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a new series of breaches at over 100 organizations following data-theft attacks that exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day flaw.
Overall prevention scores can hide what happens after initial access. Once attackers are using valid credentials, prevention drops sharply.
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India’s Su-30MKI fleet, built on a Russian airframe design, is now getting a distinctly homegrown upgrade to its detection system.
The Defence Research and Development Organisation is developing a new radar called Virupaksha to replace the aircraft’s ageing Russian-origin unit.
This radar swap forms a core element of the broader Super Sukhoi modernisation programme currently awaiting final government clearance.
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The Super Sukhoi programme aims to elevate the aircraft to a more advanced fighter jet class through this sensor overhaul.
In simple terms, that means the jet would gain sharper detection abilities without needing an entirely new airframe.
Indian officials have estimated the cost for an initial batch of 84 aircraft at ₹60,000 to ₹65,000 crore (about $6 billion), but it still awaits final approval from the Cabinet Committee on Security.
Astra Microwave Products, a private contractor, is building a key radar component, the Active Antenna Array Unit (AAAU), alongside DRDO engineers.
The AAAU works like the radar’s eyes, scanning the sky for threats electronically instead of using a spinning dish.
It houses roughly 2,400 small transmitting and receiving parts made from a material called Gallium Nitride, which is more power-efficient than older materials.
In practical terms, this material lets the radar see farther, run cooler, and resist enemy jamming more effectively than older designs.
It also keeps the whole unit relatively lightweight, which matters when fitting new technology into an existing aircraft.
Once complete, the radar is expected to detect conventional fighter-sized aircraft between 300 and 400 kilometres away.
Against stealthier aircraft designed to evade detection, its range is still expected to exceed 200 kilometres, a major improvement over the current system.
Astra Microwave has told investors that its portion of the radar programme remains on schedule for completion within months.
The company expressed hope that the full Virupaksha radar system could be finished by the end of this year.
“The Active Antenna Array Unit remains on schedule despite the scale and complexity of the underlying technology,” said a company spokesperson.
Completing this radar on time would mark a meaningful milestone for the wider Super Sukhoi modernisation effort.
It would also suggest that India’s domestic defence electronics industry can deliver advanced radar systems without major delays.
Whether the full 84-aircraft upgrade eventually proceeds still depends on Cabinet approval and future budget decisions.
Until that approval arrives, the radar’s fabrication progress remains the clearest sign of how quickly the broader programme is moving forward.
For a country still reliant on imported fighter jet technology, a homegrown radar like this represents a notable shift in capability.
It shows India attempting to pair a foreign-designed airframe with an increasingly self-built sensor and detection system.
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“As Sony soldiers ahead with their plans to end hard copies for new PlayStation games, players are fearing a future which will force them to pay more and own less,” writes Kotaku.
What will prices do in a world with no physical copies to share or sell? One former Square Enix executive speculates this could actually drive down the price of games:
“Digital on the PS store will likely get cheaper,” posted Jacob Navok, former Square Enix business strategist. “Current prices are tied to retail. Without physical discs holding digital hostage we’ll see a larger spectrum of pricing similar to steam.” Navok says that the digital-only landscape will pit major publishers in constant, dynamic competition with each other… “The more the Playstation store becomes digital only, the greater this trend will accelerate,” Navok follows up. “You will see more sales and dynamic pricing similar to Steam because publishers will compete among themselves to a greater extent.”
[O]n the other end newer games are getting increasingly expensive, even on digital platforms. The fact that Grand Theft Auto VI will be a purely digital release has not caused its price point to budge.
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It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe a TRF or superhet design. FM radio projects were not as common, because demodulating an FM signal was harder, as was making things work in the 100 MHz range. These days, though, you can get everything on a chip like the TEA5767, and [turtushig22-blip] has an open design that uses that device on a breakout board, a display, a knob, and an external amplifier. An ESP-32 pulls it together. You can see two videos about the project below.
Unlike older FM radio designs, the TEA5767 doesn’t require any adjustments. RF goes in, and stereo audio goes out. You can control the device through I2C or a 3-wire serial interface.
Software-wise, you send a five-byte control word and the chip sends back five status bytes. You don’t set the frequency directly, but provide a PLL divisor. For example, with a 32 kHz reference crystal, setting 100.1 MHz would be: 4*(100.1 MHz + 0.225 MHz)/0.032768 MHz = (about) 12247.
The radio uses a 225 kHz IF and can autonomously seek stations. You can select whether the search is up or down, and the minimum acceptable signal strength. One unusual feature: the TEA5767 can select the positive or negative mixer output, which might be useful for image rejection in some cases.
The output is purely analog, and there’s no RDS/RBDS decoder. So don’t expect station information on the OLED display. Still, a nice, easy FM radio build. Naturally, not the first TEA5767 build that we’ve seen. Or even the second.
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet delivered on their promises, and that only genuine breakthroughs will win public trust. It lands as Anthropic prepares a listing that backers expect to value it at $2trn.
Dario Amodei has conceded the case against his own industry. “The most accurate criticism of AI companies, including Anthropic, is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world,” Anthropic’s chief executive wrote on X on Saturday.
His prescription is blunter than the admission. “At this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliché than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive,” he wrote. “The thing that will work is actually curing cancer.”
The timing gives it weight. Anthropic is weeks from a listing its backers expect to value the company at $2trn in October, a price that rests almost entirely on what the technology will do rather than what it has done.
The public evidence supports his premise. Pew found half of American adults more concerned than excited about AI in daily life, against 10% who were more excited, up from 37% concerned when the question was first asked in 2021.
He does not accept that his own warnings caused it. “I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionately negative,” he wrote, pointing to Machines of Loving Grace, his 2024 essay arguing that AI could transform the world for the better.
His explanation is broader and harder to test. Public distrust of AI companies, he argued, reflects decades of scepticism towards corporations generally, and “AI is just the latest iteration of it.”
Others were unconvinced that breakthroughs are enough. An OpenAI employee replied that the pharmaceutical industry delivers advances constantly and remains among the least trusted sectors there is.
People will judge AI companies on more than results, she wrote, listing pricing, access, lobbying, opacity, how the gains are shared and who ends up holding the power.
Yann LeCun made the argument Anthropic is least comfortable with. The only way forward is AI that is “widely available, shared, and open,” the former Meta chief AI scientist wrote, a position Anthropic rejects for its frontier models while Meta presses Washington the other way.
Amodei ended with a schedule. Anthropic hopes for “incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months,” which puts the listing comfortably ahead of the glimmers.
Google has added some smart theft-detection features to Android in recent years.
For years, Android anti-theft protection was more reactionary than proactive. Users are all too familiar with traditional warnings and protocols, like shielding your phone when entering your PIN, utilizing location services and avoiding easily guessed passwords. Fortunately, anti-theft tools are finally getting better at preventing theft with the help of AI and Google’s built-in Theft Protection suite.
If your phone is snatched out of your hand, for instance, new motion-sensing theft detection will quickly lock it down. If a thief kills your connection by pulling your SIM card or switching to Airplane Mode, the Offline Device Lock feature triggers a countdown, locking the screen in short order. These are nifty new features that avoid annoying false positives with usage limitations and active use checks.
Even better, you don’t have to dig deep into your device settings to find and activate theft protection measures. As long as your device is running Android 10 or newer, the feature is bundled into Google Play Services. Keep in mind that some entry-level or budget smartphones running Android Go Edition with low RAM, Android tablets and devices lacking the full range of Google Play Services may not have some or all of Google’s security suite features.
The primary settings to look for are under Google’s Theft Protection menu. Settings menus aren’t universal with Android phones, so there may be a degree of variation between devices. For Samsung users, the order is typically Settings → Security and Privacy → Lost Device Protection → Theft Protection.
Google Pixel phones are similar, but slightly different: Settings → Security & Privacy → Device Unlock → Theft Protection. The most prominent feature is Theft Detection Lock, and it’s best to start there. This uses motion and sudden disconnection indicators (like your phone being snatched and moved quickly) to lock down your phone screen automatically. After you turn it on and confirm, your device will now respond to aggressive or sudden movement.
Next, enable Offline Device Lock so your screen stays protected if a thief disables your mobile data or Wi-Fi by switching Airplane Mode on. The lock will kick in shortly after disconnect and doesn’t require a local connection to do so. Last but not least, set up Remote Lock. This lets you lock your phone from anywhere by visiting android.com/lock, entering your phone number and following the prompts. Google’s Find Hub app is no longer your sole fallback option, and Remote Lock works even if the thief moves the phone to another network.
You’ll never fully take advantage of the Theft Protection features if you don’t use a PIN, biometrics and a more complicated password than your first name. Besides, Google explicitly requires a screen lock for Identity Check and other device-protection tools, so you may as well set it up properly. On Pixels and newer Android phones, Identity Check can periodically re-verify using your biometrics or PIN, especially when you’re off your regular beaten path and away from work or home.
Enable Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock so your phone auto-locks and remains that way, even if the thief yanks it offline. If they try to power it down or keep it in Airplane Mode, your data remains secure behind the screen lock, completely shielded. On Samsung Galaxy phones, there is a dedicated Theft Protection page that ties into Samsung’s own lost-device tools as well.
Make sure Remote Lock is enabled and your phone number is verified, so you can lock your phone down from any browser the moment you realize your phone is gone and you didn’t leave it on top of the car or inside the refrigerator. Hey, it happens.
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg.
OpenRouter helps customers to select different AI models to perform different tasks, depending on their specific needs and budget. The company announced in May that it had raised a $113 million Series B, at a reported $1.3 billion valuation. (Investors include Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and Alphabet’s Capital G.)
At the time, OpenRouter CEO Alex Atallah described the company as the equivalent of Stripe for AI, because it provides customers with a single access point for different systems and prevents lock-in. The startup also claimed to have 8 million global users and to provide access to more than 400 models.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Stripe and OpenRouter were in acquisition talks. Now, Bloomberg said those discussions have led to a deal price of more than $7 billion.
A Stripe spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.
When Disney announced back in May that Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run in both Disneyland and Hollywood Studios was getting an update with new missions, it was widely viewed as a welcomed but fairly minor update to the popular attraction. At its D23 conference this weekend, Disney Imagineers are offering a deep dive into how that update happened and a peek behind the curtain at all the tools used to make that update a reality.
For the uninitiated, there’s quite a bit of sleight of hand involved in how Smuggler’s Run works. Each version of this ride has multiple cockpits that rotate around on a massive set of plates, so more people can quickly get on and off the ride. This means there are 28 iterations of the same ride environment inside both the California and Florida versions of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction. According to Disney Imagineers Asa Kalama and Angela Jay, each one of those 28 cockpits is powered by five 4K projectors driven by eight graphics cards to make the whole thing work.
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The upgrade to Smuggler’s Run back in May added a lot of complexity to the ride, allowing riders to choose between different worlds to travel to for your unique adventure. To make something like that possible, every single one of the 224 graphics cards was upgraded to a new Nvidia Blackwell card and the whole game was updated to Unreal Engine 5. This allowed the platform as a whole to be more flexible, but it also allowed the testing environment to get an upgrade as well.
A big part of the Imagineering Pavilion at D23 this year is dedicated to a live demo of the developer console used to test Smuggler’s Run and its many new updates. This includes virtual buttons to simulate all the functions in the cockpit, screens dedicated to all the readouts you see while on the ride and, of course, multiple perspectives of the game itself.
Some testing is done within virtual reality headsets so they can see the same way you would by sitting in the ride, while other times people are sat in an office with a phone or tablet that has all the buttons laid out. Nearly all of it happens on a computer just like the one in the ride to make sure everyone gets the same experience.
One other important thing to know about Smuggler’s Run is how incredibly popular it is. If you’re a regular in either theme park, you know this ride always has a line, and nobody likes it when a popular ride is offline, even if it’s for very cool upgrades. That’s why Imagineers set off working overnight for weeks to successfully update the hardware and the software for this ride, and the result was zero downtime.
It’s clear from the way Kalama and Jay talked about the work on Smuggler’s Run in 2026 that more is coming for the most famous hunk of junk in the galaxy. It’s clear this work wasn’t just for helping the Mandalorian and Grogu take out Imperials, as made clear by a new partnership with Fortnite where your gameplay in Smuggler’s Run will carry over. This ride has now not only been future-proofed for more upgrades later on, but the success of what seemed at first like a fairly minor update to the software likely means Smuggler’s Run will be able to feel new and interesting for years. If you’re not sure why that’s important, remember that Indiana Jones in Disneyland is still running Windows XP.
Although stock launchers give you a clean setup for your phone’s home screen, they’re pretty limited in terms of customization. The cracks start showing up when you try to move widgets to any part of your screen, change the icons, or even change how your app drawer behaves. While brands like Samsung do provide a good deal of customization with their skin, One UI, there are still many features that these Android skins do not touch upon. That’s an issue that a third-party launcher can easily resolve, and Android has been generous in letting you swap yours.
The Google Play Store is filled with great launchers, with some of them like Nova Launcher attaining legendary status. But that is also a problem. With so many launchers available both through official and third-party sources, it becomes extremely difficult to pick the right one. Things get tricky because most of them behave the same way as the other, while others get abandoned by their developers within a year or two. The good thing is that we have done the heavy lifting of finding the best Android launchers for you, so you don’t have to go through the hassle.
The five Android launchers below take a genuinely different approach to what your home screen should look and feel like. So, if you’re bored with your stock home screen and want something fresh, here are the best Android launchers you must try in 2026.
Most launchers hand you a blank grid and expect you to organize it yourself. Smart Launcher 6 skips that step and actually behaves smartly. It automatically sorts every app you install into categories, making it easier for you to locate apps in the sea of apps you have on your phone. So, your games get grouped, messaging apps and communication apps get grouped, and tools get grouped. Most of us love grouping similar apps, but on other launchers, that needs to be done manually. With Smart Launcher 6, this tedious task is done automatically.
It has been downloaded more than 50 million times, which shows how widely used this launcher is worldwide. In fact, I’m also using Smart Launcher 6 on my Galaxy S24 Ultra, ditching the Samsung One UI, which is known to have a few features that you should turn off immediately. This launcher also throws in a customizable news reader with RSS support. This ensures that headlines can sit right on your home screen alongside your apps. One of the best things about Smart Launcher 6 is that it pulls matching colors from your wallpaper to its icons, folders, and search bar.
This ensures the phone looks cohesive rather than mismatched. It’s one of those customization options that you’d have to set manually in other launchers, but Smart Launcher 6 handles it automatically. You can also change fonts; the search bar doubles as a shortcut for contacts and calculations, and the free tier includes a customizable dock and unlimited home pages.
If Smart Launcher 6 is about organizing apps, Niagara Launcher is about ditching most of them. Instead of a home screen full of tiles, app icons, and folders, Niagara Launcher gives you a plain, alphabetical list of apps running down one side. These apps are reachable with your thumb no matter how big your phone is. It’s built for one-hand use, and everything else about this launcher follows from this idea. The animations are fluid, and we like how the letters animate in a diagonal cascade as you scroll through the list of apps.
If you’re tired of the layout your phone offers, Niagara Launcher offers a new layout, which is a strong fit for foldables and other unusually shaped phones (like the Galaxy Z Fold8), since a scrolling list adapts to an odd aspect ratio far better than a fixed grid ever could. The app comes with a limited but good library of themes, which you can apply in just a single tap. You can swipe right on the home screen to reveal extra shortcuts without leaving the home screen.
When it comes to customization, you can change app icons, clock style, fonts, add a widget stack, customize the gestures (like double-tap to turn off the screen), and much more. The best thing about Niagara Launcher is that you don’t get a single ad, even in the free version of the app, which is rare to see.
Octopi Launcher is fairly new compared to the others in this list. It markets itself as “the home screen launcher that tries to be different,” and it earns that line. It lets you organize your app drawer with tags instead of folders, run auto-scrolling widget stacks, and pin a widget so it floats on top of your home screen instead of taking up a fixed spot. Another nice thing about Octopi Launcher is that you can have separate layouts in portrait and landscape modes, or go a step further and have different setups for each screen of a foldable phone.
You can resize icons, and swiping on one in a particular direction can open a second app entirely, a small touch that saves a surprising number of taps for your most used pair of apps. If you have a foldable, then you’ll love Octopi Launcher since it gives you the option to have different layouts for the inner and outer display. While some prefer having that extended home screen setup when they switch from the outer to the inner display, there are many people who like to keep the outer display less distracting and have everything else for the bigger inner display.
Octopi Launcher also comes with the option to hide the status and navigation bars, the index bar, and enable reachability mode for the app drawer, with private space and work profile support as well. You can unlock additional features by opting for a one-time payment.
If you love how your friend’s Google Pixel launcher looks, but you have a Samsung Galaxy phone, you don’t need to look anywhere else, as Lawnchair does the job perfectly. On its official website, it says “no clever tagline needed,” which is true because it gives you a Pixel-style launcher that ships on Pixel phones minus the restrictions. You get the same clean look as the official Pixel launcher, the same At a Glance widget, and full support for Material You’s wallpaper-based theming.
Because it is open-source, Lawnchair picks up new Pixel Launcher features almost as fast as Google ships them, since the code is public and the community can track new changes. No root access is required to enjoy Pixel Launcher features, which makes it highly approachable for people who haven’t touched a custom ROM and want that Pixel-like experience. If icon customization is your thing, Lawnchair does that pretty well, too.
Lawnchair supports QuickSwitch, a community add-on that improves the recent-apps screen for anyone running a Magisk-modified phone. Though this part is optional, most people will never need it. Lawnchair is entirely free, and there’s no subscription plan to remove ads or unlock features. It’s actively maintained on GitHub with regular releases and is also available on the Play Store.
I love trying out new launchers as I love customizing my phone. One of the best launchers that I have recently tried aside from the Octopi Launcher is Kvaesitso. While the name is pretty complicated, the idea behind this launcher is pretty simple — it treats search as the main way to interact with your phone, not a fallback for when you can’t find an icon. Open the Kvaesitso launcher, and you are handed a search field first. You can type in to pull up apps, contacts, calculator results, calendar entries, and even files in your phone’s internal storage.
This negates the need to open the app drawer, open the app and then perform the tasks you want to. Kvaesitso is fully open-source, comes with no ads, no tracking, and no reliance on Google Play services, which makes it a perfect choice among users who install their apps through Play Store alternatives like F-Droid. Kvaesitso is one of the fastest Android launchers you must try, since it has a small installer, minimal background overhead, and it gets out of the way instead of adding unnecessary animations for its own sake.
To be honest, Kvaesitso won’t please those audiences who want a heavily decorated home screen setup. It’s meant for those who are looking for productivity and want to strip away unnecessary bloat that most modern launchers rely on.
While Flock announced changes for its AI-powered traffic cameras, “Several of the proposed changes Flock is touting are merely retreads of previous ,” complains the American Civil Liberties Union. “Flock’s latest announcement still appears more focused on addressing a perceived PR problem than the significant harms its products create… [T]his is hardly the step forward Flock wants us to think it is ”
The ACLU continues to urge that default retention periods be shortened to 48 hours — not one week. And they warn Flock allows longer retention to any police department that asks for it, or when police officers activate “Evidence Mode” (the scope of which is not yet clear):
Even if “Evidence Mode’s” data retention hold only applies to hits returned on a given search, it would still retain significant amounts of location data on persons and vehicles who law enforcement do not suspect have engaged in any wrongdoing…
Flock claims that its changes will provide “more local control,” meaning local police can decide what types of offenses other Flock customers can search their data for… This is not new. Flock has attempted this before, and the security measure failed because users were easily able to circumvent the system’s requirement that police input the purpose of their search. For example, on June 12, 2025 Flock started claiming its new “Proactive Search Term Tool” would block any “impermissible” searches, such as abortion-related searches in states like Illinois that prohibit sharing reproductive healthcare data. But police officers quickly realized they could just input “investigation” or even “hehehe” as a search reason and it would be approved. Flock later switched from an open text box to a drop-down menu of reasons, but that just offered police a list of acceptable purposes they could choose from, whether it was accurate or not. Until Flock demonstrates they can develop a reliable, workable system to prevent improper searches, this promise of local control provides nothing more than a false sense of security…
While providing “Audit Assistance” to all departments makes sense, there is no evidence that the tool works consistently to address what the Washington Post observed is a growing pattern of police officers turning Flock into a personal stalking tool. While dozens of officers have recently been arrested, fired, or otherwise disciplined for misusing Flock for personal reasons, Flock claims these arrests are proof its auditing tool works. However, unless we know the number of officers misusing the system, we cannot conclude if Flock and its auditing tools are catching 95 percent of violators or 5 percent. Flock needs to have its auditing tool analyzed by an independent evaluator to determine its actual effectiveness. Until then, we don’t know if the tool is a real security measure or just window dressing.
Perhaps the oddest part of Flock’s announcement is its claims that “now every search will require” police to input a case code… While claiming that a “search without a reason is a search that shouldn’t happen in the first place,” Flock’s announcement fails to note how easily users have circumvented “search reason” security measures in the past… This leaves the public wondering how making an ineffective voluntary security measure mandatory will improve its functionality.
Flock’s “nearly $1 billion in venture capitalist funding has locked it into an operational model that seeks to trade our privacy for massive profits,” concludes the ACLU’s statement, as they promise to continue “The ACLU is fighting alongside communities to cancel local ALPR contracts and push lawmakers to protect our rights from this surveillance nightmare…”
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Sunny days still stretch long enough to make a portable solar panel feel practical again. BigBlue’s 28W high-efficiency model, priced at $59.97 (was $68), turns that light into usable power for phones, tablets, power banks, and small gadgets without needing a wall outlet or a heavy generator.
This panel comes in a compact 4-section fold, measuring approximately 11.1 by 6.3 by 1.4 inches when folded up, and weighing approximately 1.5 pounds. When fully opened, the surface measures 33 by 11 inches. Their panels feature monocrystalline cells with a conversion rate of up to 25.4%. The front surface design has no metal grid lines to block off the sun’s rays, which is ideal for extracting every last bit of energy from even a cloudy sky.
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Three USB ports are ready to go: two USB-C and one USB-A. On its own, each can deliver up to 5 volts at 3 amps, and when combined, the three can deliver up to 5 volts at 4.8 amps. They employ sophisticated chips inside to detect what device you’re attempting to charge and regulate the power accordingly, which is useful for keeping things safe and reasonably fast. Phones, power banks, and other such devices function normally.
The one thing you won’t find is a battery, as everything is powered by the sun’s rays and connected to whatever device needs to be charged. The bad news is that clouds or even a small amount of shade will significantly slow things down, but it includes a helpful automatic restart option to get the panel back up and running when the sun comes out. Just keep in mind that the actual output is determined by a variety of factors, including how directly the sun is striking the panel, the temperature outside, and how clear the sky is.
They’ve paid great attention to durability, since the surface is constructed of a durable polymer and reinforced cloth with an IP44 classification for rain and splashes. When the unit is wet, make sure to take care of the small portion that extends out (the box that contains the USB connection). Four steel carabiners and extra reinforced grommets make it simple to hang the entire thing from a backpack, a tent, or even a tree branch, and if you need to store some cables and carabiners when it’s folded up, there are some handy little zipped pockets for that.
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