Apple has announced a significant acceleration of its efforts to expand the usage of recycled materials across all of its products, including a new aim of using 100% recycled cobalt in all batteries made by Apple by the year 2025. In addition, all Apple-designed printed circuit boards will use 100% … [continued]
If you own an iPhone, you’re probably aware that the default setting on your camera is to take “Live” photos. According to Apple, this is a recording 1.5 seconds before and after your image is taken, and allows you to do a number of things, like boomerangs. Cute, right? Gimmick … [continued]
Writing about Apple’s deep decarbonization efforts recently, I discovered something about my iPhone that I didn’t realize. In the US, if you are on iOS 16, you can now set your phone to charge on clean, green energy as much as possible. What does that mean? If you go to … [continued]
Lithium-ion batteries are efficient, compact, and have a long lifespan — all factors that enable electric vehicles (EVs), which are powered by these batteries, to be a great substitute for their gasoline counterpart. Transportation is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. By switching to EVs, and away from these … [continued]
Like so many people we encounter, tech service reps at phone stores often aren’t aware of the interface between smart phones and the Tesla entry system. It’s on us to fill them in when we’re upgrading our phones.
The iPhones 6s and 6s Plus have just been released and along with some specs upgrades — like a better camera and a more advanced touchscreen — Apple is also upgrading their best-selling products in an environmental sense. According to the company’s own measurements, which look at how much CO2 is … [continued]
The Thread Group has created an open platform of home networking technology that allows multiple home devices to interact with each other.
Originally published on Think Progress. By Jeff Spross. If a new patent is any indication, Apple customers could soon be able to plug their iPhones directly into a solar panel for power. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the patent by Apple today. And while the company has seven previous solar-related patents to … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress by Jonathan Koomey Last week, several friends alerted me to a claim that the iPhone supposedly uses as much electricity as two refrigerators — when you count the energy needed to make it, run it and power the “behind-the-wall” equipment to deliver data to the … [continued]
The largest online network of independently owned EV charging stations, operating in more than 14 countries, ChargePoint introduced earlier this month the newest electric vehicle charging station mobile application for all iPhone and Android smart phones. The new application has an all-new user experience and look and now features ‘all’ … [continued]
