Land Rover owners expect rugged British style and refinement. But lift the hood on certain models and you might find a surprise stamped right into the metal: Ford Motor Company. Mechanic and automotive-minded creator Larry Law (@larry.law94) is all smiles in a viral clip where he reveals the provenance of Land Rover’s critical components to potential owners. “This motor might …
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Mitochondria, the tiny organelles without which our bodies would be deprived of energy, are gradually revealing their mysteries. In a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from Inserm and the University of Bordeaux at the NeuroCentre Magendie, in collaboration with researchers from the Université de Moncton in Canada, have for the first time succeeded in establishing a causal link …
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In the ’60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac’s overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a good old naturally aspirated big block V8. Sure, we also enjoy forced induction systems and hybrids. No one is going to say …
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We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue. Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change that. Not only do they …
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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.” The original story follows. It’s a …
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Jaguar As we’ve previously talked about, there are plenty of bad cars with good engines, but we’ve never really considered the opposite, and that’s why last week I asked you what otherwise good car was saddled with a terrible motor. It’s a question that got quite a lot of you riled up, …
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