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Imagine having to keep everything that depends on electricity connected to the wall— it would be extremely impractical and sometimes impossible. Thanks to batteries, we don't have to do this.  Batteries store generated electrical energy and allow us to operate independently of outlets and wall plugs. There are two major battery types: primary and secondary.

Gamers are suffering because of digital currency mining. More and more companies are getting their stock eaten up and causing prices to soar. Advanced Micro Devices(AMD), based in Sunnyvale, California and Nvidia, based out of Santa Clara, California, are both struggling to keep their hungry fan base happy. The two companies have been hit hard by the cryptocurrency market. Both of the companies make popular chips used by “miners” to hoard coins, because of this they are buying up the market and an incredibly expedited pace, causing the companies to bump up the price for their normal customers by an insane amount.

HP has decided to become exclusive when it comes to ink, because Hewlett Packard (HP) is concerned with their innovative nature and intellectual designs at which they want to become an exclusive product in the market. There has always been some type of conflict or stress when it comes to third party cartridge manufacturers and printer companies because these third party cartridge manufacturers have to follow the designs and specs of the printer companies. This conflict started in early September when HP has designed new printers to reject ink cartridges from any other source than HP, and the way they are doing that is by adding authentication chips to the Ink cartridge that tells the printer this is an HP Cartridge or not. HP Printers have always been on the competitive edge when it comes to their electronics and they always have their own unique touch and now they are becoming more exclusive when it comes to ink by adding an authentication chip to their cartridges.

Sony tested out their new virtual reality system Project Morpheus to the public this past week at the E3 - Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

Benchmark Electronics, established in 1979 in Clute, Texas, is a contract provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) of integrated electronics products for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Originally an assembly line for Intermedics (a producer of medical implants), the company specialized in low-volume manufactures and was known as Electronics, Inc. In 1988, the company was renamed Benchmark Electronics, Inc. and is currently headquartered in Angleton, Texas. With fiscal year 2013 revenues of $2.5 billion and public trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the company has experienced enormous growth. Benchmark has continually expanded through a series of strategic acquisitions including: Lockheed Martin Commercial Electronics Company in 1998, AVEX Electronics, Pemstar in 2007, and most recently the Suntron Corporation in 2013 – an electronics company with a focus on aerospace and defense.

Headquartered in Windischeschenbach, Germany, Arcotron GmbH is a leading provider of video technologies, especially, for use in traffic systems. The Bavarian company is a premier partner of multinational engineering firm Bosch, imaging giant Pentax, and telecommunications firm Barox Kommunikation. In addition to consistently meeting the standards of its partner companies, Arcotron is a sister company of Gebacon Systems Engineering and Services, which specializes in public transport engineering, such as railway systems. Arcotron is an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of customized camera systems, traffic detection software, speed domes, and a variety of other surveillance camera technologies.

Founded in 1971, SMC Networks has been operating since 1997 as a subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation (a Taiwan based Ethernet switches, WLAN, and silicon design and manufacturing house). SMC Networks focuses on supplying customer premises based products including routers and gateways, modems, and other security, monitoring, and automation (SMA) devices to multi-service operators (MSO) in the United States. Headquartered in Irvine, California, SMC Networks has regional offices worldwide (including Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Japan). Over its 40 plus year history, the company has formed partnerships with such high-profile companies as Broadcom, Affinegy, Atheros, Casabi, Cavium Networks, DSP Group, Inc., Intel, Texas Instruments, among many others.SMC Networks strives to remain at the forefront of cutting edge technology.

Based in Silicon Valley, Agilestar Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of digital-to-fiber optical transceivers. With compliance to ISO 9000, RoHS6, IEC 60825, UL, TUV and CE quality standards, this privately held company retains manufacturing sites globally and an assembly site at their San Jose, California headquarters.