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Mazda has a super interesting way of doing this. When paired with an electric motor/generator, they can speed up/slow down specific parts of the combustion cycle to essentially get…

It can sound significantly better but there’s a couple hoops you have to jump through - and even then it’s decent, but not the same as Siri. You need the user to download ‘enhanced…

iCloud was down a couple weeks ago for most of a day. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/01/icloud-mail-down/ It definitely happens to other providers.

As Mark Twain once said "If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." I guess it's up to the individual to choose what t…

And yet there's a large light festival that was allowed to run whilst telling people to turn off their lights. Granted lights are not the highest usage items, the sheer volume of b…

And just like that, all the www.* domain names have been bought.

I've found that prepending "Flight" i.e. "Flight LH173" works when it doesn't detect the flight number by itself

Not really relevant to cordless ones but I know Dyson removed their pre-motor filter on their latest corded vacuums. If the dust chamber is too full excess dust is blown through th…

Most keyless start systems have a backup physical key[1] hidden inside the remote fob and will use very short range RFID [2] similar to older physical turn keys and their immobilis…

I've got a Zallus reflow controller off an old kickstarter - finally installed it this weekend into an old oven but haven't had a chance to try it properly. They seem quite a bit c…

There certainly is a way to make it so an app can ‘add photos only’ on iOS. I have only seen it used a handful of time and some apps like Facebook Messenger where I’ve somehow got …

A couple of the old Priuses used to have a solar powered fan. I can’t find any good info on it at the moment but IIRC it was basically a computer fan coupled to a small solar panel…

It's also not all about 0-60 (at least for the motorsport market). Tesla's seem to still have issues under sustained high performance driving[1]. There's many cars with significant…

I believe GP may have been referring to this line (emphasis mine) in the article suggesting Apple will now be using Qualcomm chips again. Companies have reached a global patent lic…

Unless I'm missing something, the user can set this to all zeroes. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti... A sane default would be nice but there's a lot of…