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For 27 years, Concorde made a mockery of time. Leave London, cross the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound, and land in New York before your watch caught up with the time difference, arriving (on paper) before you’d even technically left. Then, in October 2003, its time was up. Concorde flew its last commercial route – BA002 from JFK to London – and was wheeled into retirement, done in not by a lack of ambition but by a multitude of problems. Over two decades later, three separate programmes believe they’ve identified where Concorde went wrong and are working to…
Audiophiles are always searching for better sound quality, but you don’t need to upgrade your gear to enjoy a sharper listening experience. Optimizing the audio gear you already own is more important than discovering the products you’re planning to buy next. Acoustics and speaker placement are crucial elements of any great listening room — and they can be the hardest to master. I made a handful of speaker placement mistakes while building a Dolby Atmos home theater in my living room, and you can learn from these five pitfalls. Related I finally added Dolby Atmos to my home theater without…
I’ve been paying for the Pro versions of both Claude and ChatGPT, and after using them extensively, one question keeps coming back: which one would I actually trust if I gave it a job and let it get on with it? That’s exactly what I wanted to find out with Claude’s Cowork and ChatGPT’s Work. After giving them a fair shot, I came away with a surprisingly clear winner — and, more importantly, I finally know which one I’d spend my money on. Related These 5 Claude prompts turned my plain-text research into something people actually want to read From…
Now and then, AI models like ChatGPT and Claude surprise me with their answers. Not in the conventional sense of being good or bad, but sometimes they’re so unexpected that I fear we may be headed toward the plot of the 2004 film I, Robot. While that’s unlikely to happen, ethics is a real concern for AI models, especially since most people use chatbots daily for crucial tasks in law, medicine, and other fields. I’ve already benchmarked the most famous models against each other to find out what they’d do in a fictional scenario involving an impossible ethical dilemma, and…
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I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve pulled into a EV charging station, seen six charging bays, and still had nowhere to plug in. Not because every bay was occupied by a charging car. Because half of them were occupied by cars that had finished charging twenty minutes ago, the other half are filled with ICE cars, and the other half were broken… That’s the thing about public EV charging – there’s no official rulebook, no laws in place, no driving test question about it, nothing printed on the back of your provisional licence. And yet every regular…
When it comes to speed of travel, commercial flight has regressed since the 1970s. For 27-years it was possible to fly between New York and London in under three hours thanks to a remarkable feat of Anglo-Franco engineering that offered the ultimate in luxury transatlantic travel. The record flight time from JFK to Heathrow was two hours and 52 minutes at an average of 1,250mph. Cruising at 60,000 feet at a speed was Mach 2.04 – more than twice the speed of sound. As a species, we did that! Since the Concorde fleet was retired in 2003, it now takes…
It’s 5am. You kill the iPhone alarm. It’s time to gag down some slimy, raw eggs, scream into the void, and drag yourself outside for a run. Please. I’m begging you. Stop. Because despite what certain fitness influencers might suggest, exercise doesn’t have to painfully take over your entire life. Honest. Fitness gadgets can’t do the hard work for you either, but the right equipment can make that work easier to fit around everything else. And that’s where this feature comes in. None of the products below will magically transform your body without any effort on your part (believe me,…
Some people think the point of a sci-fi novel is to be adapted into a TV show or movie, and there are many such novels that have made the jump from page to screen, like the excellent 3 Body Problem on Netflix. But sometimes, the best thing for a great sci-fi book is to leave it on the page. Such is the case with this modern classic. Get into the Teixcalaan series Hard to pronounce, wonderful to read Credit: Tor Books The Teixcalaan series is made up of two books: A Memory Called Empire, published in 2019; and A Desolation Called…
If there’s one thing I love, it’s travel. Whether I’m off on a weekend trip, a full-blown summer holiday, or attending a launch event, going to new places is amazing. But (and I’m sure I’m not alone here), the travel side of things is far from ideal. Whoever said it’s all about the journey, not the destination, clearly never visited Miami International during Spring Break. So, I tried turning to the top travel tech to solve my woes. I’ve already got noise-cancelling headphones, tablets, travel backpacks, and other gadgets to keep me entertained. What I was looking for was stuff…