In-App Ads Are Destroying Your Battery Life [Smartphones]

You intuitively know that all of those applications running in the background on your phone are latently eating away at your battery's charge, but a new study reveals that the main culprit isn't any useful function. It's location-pinging ads. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/twFyxVOosTM/in+app-ads-are-destroying-your-battery-life

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