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• The Huawei Mate X: Galaxy Fold killer already?

  By Shaun on February 24, 2019 • ( 7 )

  This looks better than the Galaxy Fold, it really does, and we are only a few days into the whole foldable phone thing. I suspect that Android will not lend itself to optimised apps suddenly working perfectly on the folded… Read More ›

• Dividing 1 by 998,001

  By Shaun on February 24, 2019 • ( 1 )

  The three-digit number missing from the equation is 998. Strangely, the number jumps from 997 to 999. The number 998,001 is actually part of a small family of numbers with interesting mathematical quirks: the numbers that are the squares of… Read More ›

• The coolest police cars

  By Shaun on February 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Here are some of the most exotic, most unexpected, and coolest police cars used around the world… More here. Some of these cars are lovely, and strangely they are improved by the police livery.

• Behind the dial

  By Shaun on February 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  While in these respects Tudor and Rolex movements diverge, both companies test their prototypes the same way. In a lab just a few metres from Tudor’s conceptors, designs are put through their paces using identical processes and equipment to the… Read More ›

• Dear Tim…

  By Shaun on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 )

  Sometimes people write to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Most don’t get a response. But they do get passed around the company, and sometimes they inspire real action inside. In particular, they’ve helped guide the company deeper into the health care… Read More ›

• iPhone X Fold

  By Shaun on February 23, 2019 • ( 6 )

  Samsung introduced its first smartphone with a flexible display on Wednesday and seemed to pitch itself years ahead of its archrival Apple. Many industry observers noted that the foldable phone represents a challenge for Apple in the premium smartphone market…. Read More ›

• When my son was 6 I used a Treo 650…

  By Shaun on February 23, 2019 • ( 3 )

  My son is 18 years old now and in 2006 we travelled to Orlando to take him to Disney for his 6th birthday. It feels like an age ago, but is in fact just 12 years. Think about 12 years… Read More ›

• Nike app for self-tying shoe comes undone

  By Shaun on February 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Nike’s new self-lacing trainer, the Adapt BB, has fallen at the first hurdle after the Android app that controls the shoe malfunctioned. Billed as the “future of footwear”, the $350 (£268) a pair Adapt BB launched on Sunday. However, an… Read More ›

• Apple’s strange guarantee for Steve’s replacement devices

  By Shaun on February 23, 2019 • ( 3 )

  A friend at work, Steve, is now on his third pair of Beats X headphones because the previous two started to lose audio quality. He called Apple support and was asked to take them to his nearest Apple store where… Read More ›

• A Real $2M Lamborghini Taken Apart

  By Shaun on February 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner has created an eye-popping new photo showing a 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV disintegrating with its individual components exploding in all directions. Here’s what’s crazy: Oefner actually photographed the $2 million car, spending nearly 2 years shooting and stitching… Read More ›