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Smartphone Battery Sensors May Soon Help Predict Local Weather

LONDON, Aug. 13 (UPI) — The built-in temperature sensors of smartphone batteries could provide crowdsourced data to help predict the weather, a team led by a British researcher says. While the tiny built-in thermometers’ main job is to prevent smartphones from dangerously overheating, the battery temperatures can also tell a story about the environment around them, […]