Apple has significantly expanded its support document warning of the effects its devices can have on implanted medical devices. In March 2021, Apple issued a support document that downplayed the risk the magnets in the iPhone 12 could have on such medical device: “Though all iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models, […]
Overview If the current crop of German and Japanese luxury mid-size SUVs fail to get your blood pumping, the 2022 Maserati Levante might have the muscle and flair that you’re looking for. Whereas most Audi and Mercedes-Benz SUVs’ standard engines are turbocharged four-cylinders, the Levante goes straight into the good stuff, starting with a twin-turbo […]
Many climate experts say the long-term solution is to replace most of those fossil-fuel appliances with electric versions powered by a greener grid. But in practice, that’s difficult. While cities like Berkeley have rewritten building codes to ban new buildings from using gas, more than a dozen mostly red states have passed laws explicitly forbidding […]
If you fly a drone such as the DJI Air 2S or the Mini 2 in the US, there are rule changes that you now need to be aware of, and a safety training and testing program that you need to complete. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on June 22 that it has approved […]
If there were a children’s book about the 2022 Porsche 911 GT3, it would be called Downforce and the Magic Tires: A Control-Arm Adventure. That’s because Porsche, upon examining the best-handling version of the 911, decided that what it needed was better handling. So the new GT3, based on the 992 generation of the 911, […]
The chairman of a House subcommittee is demanding that executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., Shell, Chevron and other major oil and gas companies testify before Congress about the industry’s decades-long effort to wage disinformation campaigns around climate change. Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, said Friday he was prepared to use subpoena power to compel […]
Are we at the point in which business users can actually build and deploy relatively sophisticated applications without the help of IT? Many industry observers are skeptical, and with good reason. But what kind of role should citizen developers play? Photo: Michael Krigsman Nearly half (47%) of companies currently use low-code or no-code in their […]
At around 3:35 a.m. on September 15, 2018, I got a flat tire on the Dempster Highway about 10 miles past Eagle Plains. I was headed north to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, an Inuit hamlet on the coast of the Arctic Sea known to the locals as “Tuk.” In a whiff of butterfly effect chicanery, […]
At the same time, American cities are facing a heat crisis: The largest are warming at twice the rate of the planet as a whole. ‘It’s hard for us to think of trees as actual infrastructure’ On an afternoon that felt too sweltering for June, a 14-year-old named Kiara Wright bent over a young honey […]
People are going crazy to own NFTs — digital Non Fungible Tokens — stored on the blockchain, which represents digital assets stored on-chain. They record things like proof of ownership or collateral against a trade, collectable, or a loan. The NFT market has exploded in 2021, with over $2B spent on NFTs during the first […]