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On 27 March 2017, Apple made one of its biggest corporate gambles. When it rolled out iOS 10.3 that day, the installer silently converted the storage in each iPhone and iPad to the first release of Apple’s new file system, APFS. Had a significant percentage of conversions gone wrong, Apple would have had a disaster

The Mark 1 Golf/Rabbit was created using many parts recently acquired with Auto Union, and used in the new Audis. These in turn came from development work Mercedes had done in adapting a small water-cooled four cylinder industrial motor for use in an updated DKW F102 (launched as the Audi F103 in 1965). To increase packaging

Skip to content Image: IDG Everybody knows the value of pi is 3.14…er, something, but how many people know where the ratio came from? Actually, the ratio came from nature—it’s the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, and it was always there, just waiting to be discovered. But who discovered it?

TravelIndigo was once so vital to the state people called it “blue gold.” As interest in the dye reignites, historic sites are shining a...

Before smoking took off in the early 20th century, lung cancer was a rarity. Credit: Shutterstock When smoking first became popular we were told it was healthy, it was heavily marketed (including to young people) as being cool, and the time it took for us to learn otherwise was long, and came too late for

Beyoncé was honored in a speech by Rep. Robert Garcia; while on the Congress floor on Capitol Hill. On the cusp of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the new member of Congress thanked the superstar for her contributions to music and entertainment. 205 Views Superstar singer Beyoncé was honored with a speech by

When I was growing up, my Florida high school required me to endure a course called “Americanism vs. Communism.” I was hardly...

Born to a very wealthy and well-connected family, François de Laval had a glimmering future in the 17th-century French Catholic Church. By the age...