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Apple’s “Live” Photo Feature — Not Just Annoying, It’s Costing You Money & Destroying The Planet — How & Why To Turn It Off

April 19, 2023 admin apple, consumer technology, iPhone, iphones

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:20:56 +0000

If you own an iPhone, you’re probably aware that the default setting on your camera is to take “Live” photos. According to Apple, this is a recording 1.5 seconds before and after your image is taken, and allows you to do a number of things, like boomerangs. Cute, right? Gimmick at worst, right? Not so […]

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Waste Heat From Data Centers Can Bolster District Heat Systems

January 1, 2023 admin alphabet, Amazon, apple, buildings, data centers, Europe, green economy, meta, microsoft, waste heat

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:05:06 +0000

Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste heat. Some of it could […]

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How To Make Your iPhone Charge On Clean Energy

December 25, 2022 admin apple, clean power, consumer technology, iPhone, smartphone apps, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:57:16 +0000

Writing about Apple’s deep decarbonization efforts recently, I discovered something about my iPhone that I didn’t realize. In the US, if you are on iOS 16, you can now set your phone to charge on clean, green energy as much as possible. What does that mean? If you go to “Battery Health & Charging” and […]

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Apple Pushing For Deeper Decarbonization

December 20, 2022 admin apple, apple renewable energy, apple solar energy, apple wind energy, clean power, consumer technology, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:40:04 +0000

Amazon and Apple have announced more efforts toward climate stabilization, equity and inclusion, and deeper decarbonization in the past month and a half. The tech giants have plenty to clean up, but they’ve also been leaders in the adoption of clean renewable energy. Below is a look at some of what Apple has been up […]

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Elon Musk: Tesla Could Be Worth More Than Apple + Saudi Aramco. Stock Market: Not So Fast.

October 22, 2022 admin apple, clean transport, Electric vehicles, elon musk, green economy, investment, saudi aramco, tesla, tesla demand, tesla stock

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 03:57:07 +0000

On the Tesla conference call today, the #1 headline grabber was that Tesla CEO Elon Musk now thinks Tesla [NASDAQ:TSLA] could one day become more valuable than Apple and Saudi Aramco currently are combined. That would entail a massive increase in Tesla’s market cap, as the chart below shows. On this afternoon's $TSLA earnings call, […]

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Battery State of Health — What is It? Why is It Important?

October 12, 2022 admin apple, batteries, battery life, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery life, iPhone, lithium-ion batteries, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 23:31:57 +0000

Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan — all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. By switching to EVs, and away from these highly polluting gasoline vehicles, a […]

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Majority of Tesla Owners Would Consider an Apple Car

September 9, 2022 admin apple, apple car, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, oliver blume, porsche

Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 21:55:21 +0000

And 17% of people in another survey don’t know Tesla builds an EV!

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Tesla’s Autopilot Team & Cybertruck Visit New Orleans For CVPR

June 27, 2022 admin AI, apple, argo ai, cars, clean transport, cruise llc, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, events, lg, meta, microsoft, tesla, tesla ai, tesla autopilot, tesla cybertruck, tesla fsd beta, tesla full self-driving, tiktok, zoox

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:10:10 +0000

Tesla’s Autopilot team recently visited New Orleans for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, shared a photo of Tesla’s boot with an invitation for those in the area to stop by, talk with the engineers, and see the Cybertruck. The Tesla Autopilot team is at […]

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Tesla, Waymo, & Cruise To Race Self-Driving Vehicles From San Francisco To NYC

April 2, 2022 admin apple, autonomous vehicles, clean transport, Cruise, Electric vehicles, robotaxis, tesla, waymo

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 03:40:14 +0000

In a surprise announcement, Tesla, Waymo, and Cruise have declared that they are going to race their best self-driving vehicles from San Francisco to New York City (NYC) later this year. No humans will be allowed in the cars, not even passengers overseeing the progress and available for emergency purposes. Instead, teams of support personnel, […]