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The best multi-device wireless chargers of 2024 wipe out cable clutter and handle all your devices
Zagg, Courant, Twelve South
When it comes to spring cleaning, you can’t forget clutter. And some of the worst clutter out there right now comes from having too many cables.
Anyone who uses a smartphone, smartwatch and wireless earbuds knows how cable clutter can make keeping all of your mobile devices charged a huge hassle. As part of your spring cleaning tasks, consider getting rid of cable clutter altogether by taking advantage of a multi-device wireless charger.
We’re talking about a single device that requires just one power outlet and one power cable. Simply place your smartphone, smartwatch and wireless earbuds case on that charger and those devices will all recharge at the same time. No additional cables needed, so you can say goodbye to cable clutter and hello to fast-charging convenience.
The best multi-device charging stations for spring 2024
When it comes to wireless charging devices, you have a choice: There are two-in-one options available for those who use two mobile devices, as well as three-in-one options. There are also a few multi-device charging stations that can accommodate your tablet too.
Best multi-device wireless charger overall: Twelve South Butterfly 2-in-1 MagSafe charger
Twelve South
Number of devices supported: 2 | Wireless output: Up to 15W (for Phones and earbuds), 5W for Apple Watch | Apple made for MagSafe certified: Yes | Qi certified: Yes | Fast charging: No | Dimensions: 2.4 x 2.4 x 0.9 inches (when closed)
This ingenious phone, earbuds and Apple Watch charger folds up to fit in a pocket, but unfolds to provide two wireless charging pads — one for a smartphone or earbuds (like iPods) and the other for an Apple Watch. The charger features an anodized aluminum layered shell that matches a MacBook’s silver color. It has a soft vegan leather interior.
One included USB Type-C cable connects from the Butterfly to an external power source. Among this charger’s features are its versatile design. It can be positioned in multiple ways — either holding your phone in landscape mode or flat when charging. Your Apple Watch also either lie flat or in night-stand mode.
We also like that the Butterfly is ready to travel internationally. It comes with a collection of five power adapters, so you can plug it in pretty much anywhere in the world and keep your devices charges easily using just one power outlet.
Best 2-in-1 wireless charger: Courant Mag:3 Classic dual charging tray
Courant
Number of devices supported: 2 | Wireless output: Up to 7.5W (phone), 5W (smaller pad) | Apple made for MagSafe certified: Yes | Qi certified: Yes | Fast charging: No | Dimensions: 8.03 x 10.91 x 0.91 inches
The Courant Mag:3 Classic combines elegance with convenience in a two-in-one wireless charging tray. Built into the Italian-leather-covered tray is a MagSafe and Qi-compatible charging pad for a smartphone and a second (smaller) charging pad for wireless earbuds.
The Mag:3 makes a great-looking addition to a nightstand, because the valet tray area has extra room to keep your small items (like a wallet and keys) organized and readily available. On the back of the tray is an extra USB Type-C charging port that can connect an Apple Watch or tablet’s charging cable. A matching Apple Watch charging stand is sold separately.
The leather version of the Mag:3 is available in five colors. On the bottom of the weighted tray is a non-slip material. A slightly less expensive version with a linen covering (instead of leather) is also available.
Best 3-in-1 wireless charging stand: Belkin BoostCharge Pro
Belkin
Number of devices supported: 3 | Wireless output: Up to 15W | Apple made for MagSafe certified: Yes | Qi certified: Yes | Fast charging: Yes | Dimensions: 7.38 x 6.38 x 8.25 inches (with Apple devices connected)
Instead of having three separate charging cables that require three separate power outlets, the Belkin BoostCharge Pro has just one cable leading to a power source. Yet it simultaneously charges up to three devices wirelessly, including your iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch.
The Belkin BoostCharge Pro charging stand is MagSafe certified. It offers fast charging capabilities for compatible Apple devices and delivers up to 15 watts of power. It also works with all iPhone cases that are also MagSafe compatible.
This is an elegant tabletop stand, made primarily from plastic and metal. It takes up minimal space on a desk or nightstand. Choose between a black or white base color. The modern, looking three-in-one stand, with its minimalist design, comes with a charging cable and power adapter.
Best 3-in-1 wireless charging pad: Belkin BoostCharge Pro pad
Belkin
Number of devices supported: 3 | Wireless output: Up to 15W | Apple made for MagSafe certified: Yes | Qi certified: Yes | Fast charging: Yes | Dimensions: 3.44 x 9.34 x 0.83 inches
If you don’t want a wireless charging stand, but still want to charge up to three devices at once, the Belkin BoostCharge Pro 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Pad offers a flat (but not foldable) design that plugs into a single electrical outlet. The pad offers three wireless charging locations, including one that flips upward to accommodate an Apple Watch and keep the watch’s display visible (in nightstand mode).
The Belkin BoostCharge Pro pad also features a minimalist design that’s available in either black or white. It offers fast charging for compatible Apple devices. And because it’s MagSafe-certified, it works seamlessly with iPhones that are within a MagSafe compatible case.
Best Apple MagSafe, multi-device wireless charger: Torras 3-in-1 charging statio
Amazon
Number of devices supported: 3 | Wireless output: Up to 15W | Apple made for MagSafe certified: Yes | Qi certified: Yes | Fast charging: Yes | Dimensions: 5.5 x 2.7 x 1.3 inches
The Torras three-in-one charging stand offers a modern-looking design that can charge a smartphone, wireless earbuds and Apple Watch at the same time. The main charging pad for the phone is both MagSafe and Qi-compatible, so it’ll work with any smartphone that supports wireless charging.
This stand is also foldable and comes with a USB Type-C power cord and adapter. The charger’s internal cooling system prevents overheating and helps to protect the rechargeable batteries within your mobile devices.
The charger stand also supports both horizontal and vertical phone orientations, while the magnetic technology ensures seamless alignment and secure attachment to MagSafe-compatible iPhones.
Best 3-in-1 charger for travel: Zagg 3-in-1 travel charger with MagSafe
Zagg
Number of devices supported: 3 | Wireless output: 3W for AirPods, 15W for iPhone, 5W for Apple Watch | Apple made for MagSafe certified: Yes | Qi certified: Yes| Fast charging: Yes | Dimensions: 3.15 x 3.15 x 1.05 inches (folded within its carrying case)
If you’re a frequent traveler, you know that hotel rooms typically do not offer enough power outlets. So, if you want to charge you iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods at the same time, the Zagg 3-in-1 travel charger with MagSafe offers a perfect, highly portable solution.
This charging pad folds for easy transport, but when unfolded, provides three separate wireless charging platforms, including one that delivers up to three watts of power to charge AirPods, one that delivers up to 15 watts of power for your smartphone and a third that delivers up to five watts of power to recharge an Apple Watch.
This charging pad is Qi and MagSafe compatible. It comes with a handy travel case. A USB Type-C charging cable and a 30W USB Type-C wall charger are also included.
Best 4-in-1 wireless charger for a desk: ZenGoose Apple wireless 4-in-1 charger
Amazon
Number of devices supported: 4 | Wireless output: Up to 18W | Apple made for MagSafe certified: No | Qi certified: No | Fast charging: Yes | Dimensions: 10.47 x 6.3 x 2.83 inches
The ZenGoose Apple wireless four-in-one charger is one of a few charging stands that can charge an Apple iPad and keep it positioned at an easy-to-view, adjustable angle during charging. This stand supports any tablet that’s less than 11 inches. At the same time, your Apple iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch can be charged by placing them on the stand’s base. For the Apple Watch, you can lie it flat on the base or flip up the wireless charging pad so you can display the watch in nightstand mode.
This stand supports fast charging. Keep in mind, while wireless charging is offered on the base of the stand, your Apple iPad will need to be plugged in with a cable. (You can still charge all four devices simultaneously and will only need a single electrical outlet.)
Each of the wireless charging pads incorporate over-current protection, over-voltage protection, over-temperature protection, short-circuit protection and foreign object detection. Located on the base of the device are four tiny LED indicator lights that show the current status of each device being charged. Meanwhile, the bottom of the base has a non-slip silicone strip.
What’s the difference between Qi and MagSafe wireless chargers?
Qi is an industry standard for wireless charging. It’s compatible with Apple iPhones and many Android phones (including those from Samsung) that support wireless charging. Some other devices, like smartwatches, fitness trackers, wireless earbud charging cases and even some portable cameras also support Qi.
The technology relies on electromagnetic induction to transfer power to a mobile device, so you can recharge it without having to plug it into a power cable. Instead, you simply place the device on the pad.
What makes this technology convenient is that when you invest in a multi-device wireless charger, only the pad needs to be plugged into a power source. You can recharge several devices simultaneously without needing additional power cords. This greatly reduces cable clutter. The latest Qi2 wireless chargers allow some mobile devices to recharger even faster.
While the latest Apple iPhones and AirPods (with a wireless charging case) support Qi wireless chargers, the iPhone also supports Apple’s own technology for wireless charging, called MagSafe. When used with a compatible Apple device, a 15-watt MagSafe charger allows for faster charging. It also uses magnets to hold the mobile device in place while its battery is recharging. This magnet system can be used with various Apple phone accessories, including MagSafe cases.
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Atlanta – Reva Harvey didn’t know Vice President Kamala Harris would be coming to her church on Sunday. But with almost two weeks left until Nov. 5, she thought it was “essential” for her to do so.
Harvey, a 53-year-old Black woman whose birthday was one day before Harris’, said the vice president’s visit to the New Birth Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, could help her find older Black voters and give them “the information that they need.”
“You need to hit every corner, turn every song, just to be safe,” Harvey said at Harris’ Saturday rally in Atlanta.
Harris, a Baptist, capped off a week of heightened outreach to Black voters with visits last Sunday to two churches in the Atlanta area. Her focus underscores the importance for her in activating and persuading Black voters, the core of her party’s electorate, by going to a stronghold within the community.
Jacquelyn Martin / AP
At a CNN town hall on Wednesday night, Harris highlighted her faith, saying she prays “every day, sometimes twice a day.”
“I was raised to believe in a loving God, to believe that your faith is a verb,” Harris said. “You know, you live your faith. And that, that the way that one should do that is that your work and your life’s work should be to think about how you can serve in a way, uplifting other people. “
She said one of the first phone calls she made after President Biden told her was dropping out of the presidential race was to her pastor. She said she “needed that spiritual kind of connection.”
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, during an appearance at a Jonesboro, Georgia, church with Harris, threw cold water on the idea Trump was siphoning off Black male support away from Harris, and got the men in the crowd to stand up and chant “real men vote.”
“This talk about Black men voting for the other… you know what I’m talking about. I don’t believe it,” said Warnock, who added “the real threat is not Trump, but not showing up.”
In recent weekends, Harris has attended multiple Black church services in southern battleground states.
At the New Birth Baptist Church, Harris referenced the Gospel of Luke in reciting the “Parable of the Good Samaritan” and saying that first responders and those helping recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene and Milton represent “the good Samaritans walking among us.”
Later, at a “Souls to the Polls” event at the Divine Faith Ministries in Jonesboro, Georgia, Harris was joined by music legend Stevie Wonder and Warnock, a senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
“This is an afternoon about faith and action,” Harris told the crowd, referencing the “Souls to the Polls” month-long mobilization of Black voters that launched last Sunday.
Jacquelyn Martin / AP
The campaign has a National Advisory Board of Black Faith Leaders leading this effort through surrogate appearances in battleground states, including Harris’ own pastor, Reverend Amos C. Brown from San Francisco.
“It takes a real man to support a woman, who are not intimidated by an educated woman,” said Jamal Bryant, the senior pastor at the New Birth Baptist Church, as Harris sat in the congregation.
Black male voter outreach
Recent CBS News polling of the battleground states shows Harris’ support with Black voters is equal to levels President Joe Biden saw in a 2020 exit poll. But a higher number of Black men (19%) said they are supporting former President Donald Trump, compared to Black women (7%).
Former President Barack Obama, who made history as the first Black president and has been on the trail for Harris in recent weeks, used a sobering tone to address Black men in Pennsylvania earlier this month.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses,” Obama said. “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president.”
Recent weeks saw a heightened focus from the Harris campaign to target Black men. Last Monday, Harris released a new policy plan that was a direct appeal to Black male voters. It included a National Health Equity Initiative to focus on illnesses disproportionately impacting Black men, the legalization of marijuana and creating opportunities for Black Americans in the field, and providing up to 1 million forgivable loans up to $20,000 for Black entrepreneurs.
When asked to compare the enthusiasm behind Harris’ campaign and Obama’s 2008 run, Harvey said while there is excitement and energy for Harris, “it’s not as hype” as she wants it to be, in part because some voters are reluctant on Harris because of her gender.
In a MSNBC interview with Rev. Al Sharpton, Harris pointed to her Atlanta rally of over 10,000 as evidence of her support from Black men, but said, “I am very clear I must earn the vote of everyone, regardless of their race or gender.”
“What can be frustrating sometimes is to have journalists ask me this question, as though one should assume that I would just be able to take for granted the vote of Black men. I think that’s actually an uninformed perspective, because why would Black men be any different than any other demographic of voter? They expect that you earn their vote,” she said.
Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, touted the campaign’s proposed policies meant to help the middle class when asked what his message is to Black men in Philadelphia.
“I think we need to make sure we’re getting out to them. We hear what they’re saying. We understand that their concern with issues, whether it’s climate, or health care, or reproductive rights, men care about that too,” Walz told Philadelphia’s 6ABC.
The Harris campaign has long contended that Black and Latino voters have remained as “persuadable” voter targets throughout the entire race, citing early investment in Black-specific advertising.
Jacquelyn Martin / AP
Harris has also done several interviews this month with Black male journalists on platforms with predominantly Black audiences in recent days such as a Detroit radio town hall with “The Breakfast Club” and host Charlamagne tha God, with “The Shade Room” and journalist Roland Martin’s “Black Star Network.”
Black Democratic operatives say these appearances may be as effective, if not more, in convincing undecided Black voters than specific policy plans.
“It is helpful to be in the spaces and to be with validators that are not of government or of the institutions,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne, who added that many young Black male voters who are undecided may have an already existing distrust with government. “You gotta flood the zone, and I think that’s what they’re trying to do.”
Payne viewed the Harris campaign’s targeting of Black voters as recognition they need to maintain high turnout in cities with high Black populations, such as Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, as well as with Black rural voters in Georgia and North Carolina.
“They would not be doing that three weeks before Election Day if they didn’t feel like they needed to,” he added.
Quentin James, the president of the “Collective PAC” which boosts Black candidates, praised Harris’ policy proposals and argued it’s not “too little too late” for Harris to be looking to persuade Black voters.
“The question is like, ‘What will people have her do? Act as if the vote is not important, and just kind of sit back and cruise? No, she’s out working, and that’s not a sign that things are bad,” James said.
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McDonald’s E.Coli outbreak leads Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut to remove onions from some locations
Amid a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, Burger King and Yum Brands are pulling fresh onions from some of their own locations.
Yum is yanking the topping from some KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell locations “out of an abundance of caution,” Yum said Thursday in a statement to CBS News. Yum did not specify the locations impacted. “We will continue following supplier and regulatory guidance to ensure the ongoing safety and quality of our food,” a spokesperson for Yum said.
Burger King said it has asked the 5% of its locations that received onions from a Taylor Farms Colorado facility to dispose of them two days ago. “We are in the process of restocking them from other facilities,” according to a spokesperson.
The fast-food chain has not heard from health authorities and has not received any indications of illness, the Burger King spokesperson added.
The developments come two days after the federal health officials said an E. coli outbreak likely tied to onions used on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders had sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, killing one. McDonald’s removed the product from about a fifth of its 13,000 U.S. locations as federal and state health officials work to confirm the source of the bacteria.
As most of those stricken reported eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers, investigators are working to figure out if slivered onions or beef patties are behind the outbreak.
McDonald’s locations in Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming and parts of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma have temporarily stopped selling Quarter Pounders.
McDonald’s identified California-based produce giant Taylor Farms as the supplier for the sliced onions the company removed.
Taylor Farms told CBS News Colorado Wednesday night it conducted tests on “raw and finished products” and “found no traces of E. coli.”
Still, Taylor Farms Colorado removed yellow onions from the market produced out of its Colorado facility, it said.
Most of those stricken in the outbreak live in Colorado and Nebraska, with 26 sickened in the former and nine stricken in the latter, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the 26 who became ill in Colorado, one older adult died, the CDC said. Health officials in Utah and Wyoming each reported four illnesses. Other states reporting illnesses include Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oregon and Wisconsin.
At least 10 people have been hospitalized, including a child with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a serious condition that can cause kidney failure, according to the CDC. The illnesses began at the end of September, and the most recent incident occurred October 11.
It typically takes three to four weeks to determine if a sick person is part of an outbreak. Those infected with the toxin-producing E. coli experience severe stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, and most recover without treatment after five to seven days.
