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As a result of a supply shortage, new automobile sales in Australia fell in October. Despite large portions of the country being released from Covid-19-induced lockdown, just 74,650 new cars were sold in October, a decline of more than 8% from the same month in 2020. The drop in sales is due to a supply shortage caused by a lack of semiconductors, a critical component in modern vehicles. After a disastrous year in 2020, the new car market is set to surpass one million sales in 2021 for the first time since 2009....

Conversion apps feel like a design playground, with so much potential for uniqueness and variety in their interfaces. The trend has been towards multifunction, multi-purpose Swiss-army knife apps that attempt to cover a whole range of disparate measurements. In my experience, as a result of racing to add one more ratio to their feature list, the simplicity of these apps suffer. Currency sidesteps this battleground entirely and, as the name implies, focuses solely on converting amounts of money....

Readdle’s app Documents has long been one of the most complete solutions for managing your files on the go. With an intuitive interface and powerful download management features, it has been a solid contender in the file management app arena for some time. Today, the company has launched version 5.0 of the software, introducing a host of new features and a colorful design refresh for iOS 7. Keep reading for a full review of the new look and features available in the latest update....

While the tech industry is still in the middle of a transition to USB-C, it can be easy to wind up with lots of various charging bricks and adapters. Leviton’s Type A & Type C USB Charger/Receptacle caught our eye as a way to simplify our digital lives, so we went hands-on with the handy wall outlet. Between fast charging with a USB-C to Lightning cable, the mix of USB-C supported accessories, and the likelihood this year’s iPhones will ship with a USB-C power adapter, the new standard is slowly but surely expanding beyond devices like Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro....

I tend to like my headphone designs much like my audio quality: neutral. But if you prefer something a little more visually interesting, you will often find yourself being forced to choose between audio quality and looks. That’s a problem V-Moda set out to solve with its Crossfade 2 Wireless Codex Edition headphones … We’ll get into the audio quality shortly – for now I’ll just say that the brand is much favored by DJs, and while the tuning isn’t absolutely to my taste, they deliver a solid performance....

A reviewer managed to fool the ‘attention check’ performed by Face ID on the iPhone X, which is intended to ensure that you are looking at the phone. It did, however, require a very unusual combination of circumstances … A colleague of Gizmodo’s Alex Cranz was able to successfully unlock the phone using her face while she had her eyes closed, pretending to be asleep. This should only be possible if you choose to switch off attention-detection in the settings....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker box office projections fall a bit more following the mixed reviews. Even before word-of-mouth started to spread, the film was poised to have the lowest opening weekend of the sequel trilogy, with predictions indicating a debut in the range of $175-210 million. At the time, the hope was those were just conservative estimates that would steadily increase after The Rise of Skywalker started screening and the reactions hit....

We learned yesterday that Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has approved the sale of two unreleased iPhones, specifically with the model numbers A1524 & A1586, ahead of the expected announcement on September 9th. Confirmation of the approval for the new iPhone models was even publicized via Twitter by the NBTC’s Secretary General in addition to being discussed on video. Whether or not the two new model numbers point to the 4....

Apple Watch Series 2 hit stores on Friday and I’ve spent the weekend testing its new features. From outdoor cycling and swimming in the ocean to comparing it to the first-generation Apple Watch, I had my own list of questions I wanted answered and I’m mostly happy with my experience. I used the first-generation Apple Watch every single day since April 2015 and reviewed it in May 2015 after a couple of weeks....

The Christmas season is upon us. Sure, it’s technically over a month away, but that’s just a minor detail. So you know what that means - Christmas Sweaters. The kind grandma used to knit… although a bit nerdier. Merchoid has the best selection of knitted Christmas sweaters around for fans of all the best franchises. We’ll list our top picks, but don’t let that stop you from searching their entire selection - it’s a bit daunting....

Back in March, the United States government enacted a new policy that prohibited tablets and laptops from being carried in cabin baggage on flights to the United States from eight countries. It was last month suggested that the policy may be expanded to include all flights from Europe to the United States, and a new report says officials have been meeting with airlines ‘on a weekly basis’ to discuss the possibility …...

There are some reports of audio cutouts and other problems when using the iPhone 11 with wireless CarPlay. Many of these relate to the BMW-made Mini, but others say the same thing is happening with the BMW Series 1 as well as Nissan and Honda models… An Apple Support Community thread runs to 13 pages. The first reports date back to October of last year, with many of those affected saying it remains unresolved – though there is one suggestion that a fix is in hand....

TechRadar had originally cited a spokesperson, who warned that once the Nexus 5 units were sold out, that was it for the year-old stock Android flagship. disputed it in an email statement to The Verge, however, saying that the Nexus 5 will continue to live on through Q1 2015. have no confirmation from , but going by that email statement, you have several months left to buy a Nexus 5—though we wouldn’t dilly-dally....

Battery life is still an issue for many smartphone users, despite the fact that our phones have gotten bigger (but thinner), and we’ve packed in even larger batteries along with them. While we continue to wait for battery technology to improve, there looks to be a bright light on the horizon thanks to some researchers that have developed a new lithium battery. In an article published to Nature, entitled “Interconnected hollow carbon nanospheres for stable lithium metal anodes,” by several researchers, the new battery is detailed in great length, eventually concluding that it’s possible to create a battery that doesn’t take up more space (get thicker), but can provide two to three times longer battery life, just by finding better ways to use the technology we already have....

As players travel the zombie-infested Raccoon City in Resident Evil 2 Remake, they will surely encounter and avoid the terrifying tyrant monster. The tyrant, also known as Mr. X, is a massive creature who impedes player progress throughout the entirety of the game. A creature introduced early on during the Racoon City Police Department section appears throughout the game following the player and attempting to harm them. Throughout the game, it is evident that Mr....

What’s in the Box? Simple Set Up Echo’s audio instructions will tell you to press and hold the blue set up button on the back of Echo Wall Clock for about ten seconds, then the Echo Wall Clock starts paring. You can confirm that the process is working with the colored status light on the face of the clock. Pulsing orange means in paring mode, then solid blue means paired successfully....

While I’ve been highly impressed with the video capabilities of recent iPhone cameras, the accompanying microphone has always left something to be desired. Recently, I found myself in need of a more professional audio solution for on the go video. Looking for an affordable, compact, and high quality option, I decided to try out the Zoom iQ7 microphone for Lightning-equipped iOS devices. Overview Zoom is no stranger to the audio market, producing a wide range of high quality microphones and field recorders for various applications....

So when’s season 3 coming out? That’s been the refrain for Rick and Morty fans from the moment the second season of the hit Adult Swim series ended back in 2015. The show inspires a rabid fanaticism in its fans with its smartly subversive humor and skewering of science fiction tropes, and it has become one of the most popular shows during Cartoon Network’s block of grown up programming in addition to becoming a sensation across the internet....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is expected to lose the top spot at the domestic box office after three consecutive weekends. While it hasn’t been as big a hit as its sequel trilogy predecessors, The Rise of Skywalker is still another financial success for Disney, inching closer to the $1 billion mark globally. After the commercial disappointment of 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story (the first installment in the franchise to lose money), The Rise of Skywalker was a welcome return to form for the property at the box office, illustrating the Mouse House has the right idea keeping Star Wars in December from now on....

A new report from Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW and detailed by Bezinga claims to share details of Apple’s contract with card issuers for Apple Pay. In addition to sharing details on Apple’s cut of transactions, the report highlights requirements from Apple’s terms and conditions that card issuers must follow to participate in the new payments service. Among the terms, card issuers reportedly “must allow at least 95 percent of the cards in their portfolio to participate in Apple Pay,” which the report points out might not include ATM or gift cards....