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Does Windows 7 make up almost 50% of the desktop operating system market share?
NetworkMarketShare claims that, as of July 2016 (after the free upgrade cutoff), Windows 7 still beat Windows 10 in terms of market share by over 20%.
Is this analysis that the Windows 7, which is at least two releases out of date, still retains…
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Are there certain sounds that cannot be heard through the phone?
The common claim is that the quality of traditional telephony is sufficient for the application and that every other solution offering more quality is probably just a marketing ploy. Imagine this situation:
Someone from tech support finally called…
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Does white background increase battery consumption of a smartphone?
Here is a page with tips on how to decrease power consumption of a smartphone (in Russian). One of the tips is to use black background for Google search.
I wonder whether it actually decreases battery consumption given that the screen uses liquid…
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Was a real hologram of Homer Simpson used at Comic Con 2014?
At the San Diego Comic Con 2014, there was what they call an hologram of Homer Simpson, but is this a real hologram? Or was it, perhaps, just a projection on the wall? I thought that the hologram technology was far from those kind of impressing…
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Is Moore's law just a special case of an experience curve?
I recently stumbled upon the notion of an experience curve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects#The_experience_curve . It basically says, that plotting the cost per item over the number of produced items will follow a power law…
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If the universe is just a Matrix-like simulation, how could we ever know?
If the universe is just a Matrix-like simulation, how could we ever know?
This is a sample from reading I have done.
All we have to do to identify what these constraints would be is to build our own simulation of the universe, which is close to…
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Did farmers adopt cars faster than inhabitants of cities?
I learned from this post: Start with a niche that:
Cars are almost among the lucky exception to the niche rule. However, there was still one group of people in the USA that moved from horses to cars enormously fast — farmers. ... Nevertheless, cars…
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How can a call use cellular service when cellular service is off in Airplane Mode?
According to Verizon (a large company generally positioned to be a trusted source of knowledge for how cellular phones and cellular networks work):
When using Wi-Fi Calling, 911 calls will always try cellular service in the local market first,…
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Can MSG be made from petroleum
Once again a famous article on how bad is Nutella was shared to me. Thankfully, from Skeptics we can disminish the main argument of the claim which rely on the fact that MSG is bad (but as shown here, we have no scientific evidence supporting…
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Are pet RFID chips (eg: "HomeAgain") capable of fulfilling Revelations 13:16-17?
Regardless of the veracity of the Christian bible in general, could the technology behind the microchips (RFID tags) implanted into pets--used to re-unite lost pets with their owners--be used to track people's movements or restrict commerce to those…
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Does the Dyson hairdryer measure temperature more than 40 times per second?
According to its product page https://www.dyson.co.uk/hair-care/dyson-supersonic/dyson-supersonic-overview the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer has the following feature
Unlike some others, the Dyson Supersonic™ hair dryer measures air temperature over…
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