Remains of the Day: Opera Takes Aim at Microsoft’s Battery Life Claims

Opera has offered up a rebuttal to Microsoft’s claims that their Edge browse is your best bet for extending your laptop’s battery life. Shocker: Opera claims that their battery-saving mode is the true battery savior. Hey, sure, I’ll go with anything that lets me watch ten hours of Netflix in one sitting.

• Opera laid out the exact details of their own tests in a blog post, and also criticized Microsoft’s unclear and opaque methodology. Unsurprisingly, in their own tests Opera lasted 22 percent longer than Edge with their power-saving mode enabled. Sure, okay! Honestly, it depends on your hardware, OS, and other variables, so your results may vary. [Opera]
• In other news, you can now keep Evernote on your phone a little more private by keeping your notes behind a passcode lock. The feature was previously available to premium users but is now free for everyone. Of course, you should have a lock on your phone anyway, but if you let someone tinker on your phone you can at least rest easy that your Evernote diary is behind lock and key. [Evernote]
• The a la carte future of online television continues as Viacom launches a BET streaming service for $3.99 a month. The app lets you watch some of the original BET programming and award shows on iOS and Android; there doesn’t appear to be a web option. [The Verge]
• If you control a Sonos speaker with your iPhone, you can finally adjust playback from your phone’s lock screen. Sonos recently updated their iOS app with that sorely lacking lock screen functionality, as well as some other features like 3D touch and a Split Screen view. [The Next Web]