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The Delta Pro Ultra is EcoFlow’s latest portable battery unit. Its true beauty lies in combination with the new EcoFlow Smart Home Panel 2 to become a seamless whole-home backup solution. The DPU is a combination inverter and battery, and the system is expandable from 6kWh to 90kWh capacity. Each Smart Home Panel 2 can support up to three inverters, and each inverter can handle up to five stackable batteries. Even without the expanded storage capacity, a single EcoFlow DPU can provide essential power for a home for up to two days. I went hands-on with the DPU and Smart Home Panel 2 and found that it provides a seamless transfer from the grid to backup power in case of a power outage.Review: EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra & Smart Home Panel 2One of the outages I experienced with the EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra and Smart Home Panel 2 happened during this past winter’s coldest weeks. This home battery backup system gave my family the power to eat warm meals and stay warm through the night. My young kids also slept with their night lights and sound machines while we charged essential devices. The Delta Pro Ultra is also portable and can be transported to campsites, with an RV, or remote locations. Its LFP battery means you can even bring it inside to run appliances or charge devices in a pinch without worrying about emissions. However, one Reddit user who purchased the DPU said the solar aspect is good enough for top-off but not enough to be 100% off-grid reliant. EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra + Smart home panel 2  features: Estimated cost per kWh: About $750 | Capacity: 13.5kWh | Battery type: Lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) | Scalability: Up to 5 batteries per inverter and up to 3 inverters per panel | IP Rating: IP65 More

olaser/Getty Images Back-to-school season is in full swing; alongside the Old Navy commercials and backpack sales are a flood of artificial intelligence (AI) learning tools, released just in time for the fall semester.  On Wednesday, education publisher McGraw Hill joined the trend with two generative AI features for students and teachers: AI Reader and Writing […] More

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Ring Ring just announced the launch of a new Battery Doorbell. The new Ring video doorbell has a larger field of view that translates into head-to-toe video capture, a longer battery life, and color night vision — yet it remains the company’s cheapest battery-operated video doorbell. The Ring Battery Doorbell is launching at $100, the […] More

Dimitrios Manias/Getty Images Recently, Microsoft released a Windows update that accidentally crashed a wrecking ball into systems that dual-boot Linux. This wasn’t supposed to happen but Linux users who dual-boot Linux and Windows are seeing “Verifying shim SBAT data failed: Security Policy Violation” and “Something has gone seriously wrong: SBAT self-check failed: Security Policy Violation” […] More

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images I sometimes need to record screen activity in Windows for a tutorial or demonstration or online class. Whether you’re creating a presentation, devising a how-to video, or cooking up something for YouTube, you might want to record your screen activity in Windows as well. A variety of third-party tools can […] More

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