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The chances that Chinese gizmos that retail for $0.75 each, from a seller in the fee-ripe FBA program, have legitimate safety marks -- Magic 8 ball says "don't count on it." These lights are being sold for Aliexpress prices, on Amazon, and it's hard to see how those numbers work even for...

I've always been thorough in providing documentation and never had to resubmit. For deliveries, that includes tracking and proof of delivery from the carrier. Though I will note that with the current system, it will treat each page of a single PDF file as a separate upload, so the limit of...

LOL. Amazon has reached the stage where it can now apply the screws to customers and do only as much as it pleases. Prime is not guaranteed, but still becoming less reliable. And the crackdown on return abusers has begun, as it should, but that net also affects the customers who legitimately...

Quick detailer. But it's easier and faster just to lightly run the clay over the surfaces during a second soap cycle as part of a wash.

Note the date this story was published. The TV makers have been dragged into court for it. Roku proudly proclaims that they transitioned into being a "platform" company a few years ago. Not hard to guess what that means. They just rolled out their new home screen, with a big ole' pane where...

30+, even. Power steering as well. Makes life simpler.

Riding in a Japanese taxi kind of spoils the experience anywhere else.

The OG? Android was shaping up to be a Blackberry clone, and had to pivot. If anything, the folks at Nokia had been working on a touch UI, and could claim to be the pioneers, but even they had a wake up call when the iPhone launched. Apple, for its part, hit on the (multi-)touch UI part, and...

If you gotta ask… Obviously, not this group, nor the peanut galleries on fire on the interwebs. I think of it as a collab between Ferrari and Ive's company, LoveFrom, even if not explicitly branded as such. It's what two famous industrial designers think a Ferrari sedan looks like, and that's...

One of the big changes in Qi2 was the additional of magnetic alignment, but for "reasons," the WPC made it (MPP) an optional part of the spec. The result is an mishmash of products on the market that do the user no favors, with phones that lack magnets (Samsung), and cases that lack magnets...

He did. His partner/buddy, Marc Newson, probably designed the exterior, judging by the themes of his prior work. Exotic cars are usually pretty on the outside, but relatively disappointing when it comes to their interiors. This is the opposite of that script; I like the interior, but the...

The race I watched had MSR with Rosenqvist leading and Armstrong in third, sandwiching Pato in second when Collet crashed and brought out the caution and red flag with eight laps to go. Malukas and Palou, on the primary strategy, had pitted earlier and were on fresh tires, but placed fourth...

In-n-Out is also on that list.

Green/white would cause IndyCar fans to revolt. That's not gonna happen. The red flag shootouts are contrived, but that ship sailed long ago. Rosenqvist was leading and likely to win anyway, so karmic justice was served, even if it took a little more effort. He doesn't make it any easier...

I applied the Cerakote kit to a car I don't own and it looked great, but next time I saw it inside of a year, and parts of it had already started to fog again. But it is not garaged, and run through automatic car washes. The chemical stripper that's part of their package is nice, but the...