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Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?
Navarre Bartz
The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or has it? ...[Continue Reading]
Hackaday
2 days ago
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San Francisco Hit Waymo With Hundreds of Traffic Citations in 2024
Thomas Maxwell
San Francisco has found a nice new revenue stream: Hitting self-driving Waymos with traffic citations. The city cited Waymo vehicles 589 times in 2024 for a grand total of $65,065 in penalties. The v ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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Behind closed doors, Apple is embarrassed by its slow Siri rollout, too
news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely)
One of Apple's top executives has called the delay of the new, more personalized Siri "ugly and embarrassing" and vows to "ship the world's greatest virtual assistant" at some point. Apple has been ...[Continue Reading]
AppleInsider
1 day ago
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The OnePlus 13R isn't just cheaper than the iPhone 16e; it's a better value too
Rahul Naskar
What the 'e' in iPhone 16e stands for is anybody's guess, as Apple doesn't have an official meaning. While the meaning is open to interpretation, there is no ambiguity in what the iPhone 16e wants to ...[Continue Reading]
Android Police
1 day ago
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Apple Will Fully Encrypt RCS Messages Between Androids and iPhones
Florence Ion
Its been less than a year since iPhones were granted the ability to send messages to Green Bubbles unfettered, and only now is proper end-to-end encryption making an appearance. Better late than nev ...[Continue Reading]
Gizmodo.com
1 day ago
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Android-to-iPhone RCS messages will be end-to-end encrypted
Vlad
The GSM Association (GSMA, no relation to us) has published new RCS specifications that allow end-to-end encryption across platforms. RCS messages on Android have been end-to-end encrypted for years, ...[Continue Reading]
GSMArena.com
1 day ago