When there’s smoke, there’s usually fire. And when it comes to Apple’s long-rumored car project, there’s a whole a lot of smoke. Just yesterday, word broke that Apple has a top-secret design lab in Berlin, Germany where a team of 15-20 engineers with deep experience in the auto industry are busy working on projects relating to Apple’s electric car initiative. And earlier today, a new report from Electrek relays that Apple just poached an extremely senior Tesla engineer named Chris Porritt.

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Generators costs hundreds of dollars or even thousands if you want a high-end model with a big tank. Sometimes you can’t get around the need for a generator — for example, if you live in an area with lots of storms that knock out your power all the time. But for most people, a generator isn’t really necessary.

If you want something to serve as a backup power source every now and then when the power goes out, or to charge your gear when you go camping, there’s a new option out there that costs a fraction of what you’ll pay for a generator. It’s also portable, so it’s a better option than a traditional UPS backup battery.

Meet the Anker PowerHouse Compact 434Wh Portable Power Station, the most compact portable power supply you’ll ever come across. It’s huge 434 watt-hour battery will fully charge a laptop from empty 15 times, and yet it’s compact enough to carry anywhere.

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After months and months of waiting to find out whether or not Jon Snow is actually dead, we might finally find out on Sunday when the first episode of Game of Thrones season 6 premieres on HBO.

Thankfully, the network has kept us entertained over the past several weeks with trailers and clips from the new season, but if you can’t be bothered to rewatch them all in order to see every detail before the season debuts, a couple of fans have produced a mega-trailer with “all scenes released so far.”

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One key component of the Galaxy S7 is Samsung’s ultra-fast universal flash storage (UFS) that’s able to offer better speeds than typical memory solutions used in smartphones and other computers. Based on Samsung’s advanced V-NAND flash memory chips, the UFS storage would significantly improve the iPhone’s performance. A new report says that although Samsung and Apple have inked a storage deal for the first time since the iPhone 5, Samsung’s UFS might not make it into the iPhone until next year.

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As has been observed many times over the past couple of weeks, Google’s acquisition of Nest has basically turned into a giant dumpster fire. In short, Nest’s product portfolio has grown very slowly since its acquisition by Google and its revenues are way below expectations. Additionally, Nest CEO Tony Fadell sounds like a complete nightmare to work for and he’s shown that he’s not afraid to disparage a large number of former employees after they leave the company.

In fact, things have apparently gotten so bad at Nest that Google employees routinely generate memes that mock the company and send them around the office, as a new report from Re/code shows.

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One of the most annoying things about new iPhone releases are the deluge of videos that seek to come up with new ways to destroy said iPhone. Now I’m not against putting an iPhone in a blender or dropping it from 20 feet up in the air, but the creativity level in the iPhone-destruction world sadly leveled off years ago.

Watch the new iPhone 7 get destroyed by a hammer!

Watch Apple’s latest iPhone get run over by a car!

Yeah, we get it. The iPhone isn’t indestructible. And the novelty of watching drop tests, blend tests and impact tests wore off long ago.

But not all hope is lost.

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If you’ve been waiting for the right sale before jumping on the 4K Ultra HD train, your wait might finally be over. An Amazon sale going on right now lets you score a nice big Samsung UN55JU6500 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV for under $900 with free shipping. And if you’re willing to spend a little more cash, you can get the even larger Samsung UN65JU7100 65-Inch 4K Ultra HD 3D Smart LED TV for a penny under $2,000.

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Tesla may still be riding high on reports that they’ve already tallied nearly 400,000 reservations for the Model 3, but the company’s crossover SUV — the Model X — just can’t seem to catch a break. About a week after Tesla issued a voluntary recall for all Model X units ever sold, Consumer Reports has come out with a less than flattering look at Tesla’s SUV.

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Some longtime Netflix subscribers are going to see their subscription prices go up starting next up, but others will get to enjoy a few more months of lower prices before they have to start paying more. Basically, Netflix is going to roll out its price increases gradually and CNN informs us that the longer you’ve been a subscriber, the longer you’ll have to wait before your subscription price increases. So that’s good news if you signed up for a $7.99-per-month Netflix streaming subscription back before it was cool.

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BGR began as a small one-man operation 10 years ago this fall, and it has since grown to become one of the world’s leading sources of news, reviews, commentary and more. Despite a small editorial staff, we’ve amassed a direct monthly unique audience in the double-digit millions and a total monthly unique audience in the triple-digit millions through syndication deals with leading media partners. Pound for pound, BGR is without question one of the largest and most influential sites in the world.

But we’re just getting started, and we’re looking for new team members to help us grow even faster.

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