Jason Torchinsky
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The Worst Cars Of Last Decade
Since the calendar (usually) doesn’t lie, and unless you feel like having that tedious argument about how there was no year 0, we have to accept where we’re at: the start of a new decade. So, let’s do what has to be done, and call out the worst cars of the two thousand teens. Because…
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Fact Check: Does Stuart Little Drive A Toy Car Or A Miniature Actual Car?
As you can expect, there’s lots of strange bullshit trending on Twitter at the moment: World War Six, for example, the coronavirus, all kinds of miserable bullshit. There’s also another Tweet that’s generating an awful lot of likes—maybe not quite the scale of the global disaster ones, but still—and it brings up a question a…
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Google And Facebook Are Reading Your Car’s Number Plates
For years I’ve gone back and forth over the practice of obscuring licence plates on photos on the internet. Licence plates are already publicly-viewable things, so what’s the point in obscuring them, right? Well, now I think there actually is a good reason to obscure your licence plates in photos because it appears that Google…
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The Mystery Of Nikola Tesla’s Batteryless Electric Car
The modern Tesla is known for making modern electric cars, but the truth is the original Nikola Tesla made an electric car — and he did it all without batteries, way back in 1931. Or did he?