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Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo 3 years ago

Then Apple must be very afraid to lose it's trademark, I guess.

An investigation in 2022 by the Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit that researches Big Tech, found that between 2019 and 2021, Apple filed more trademark oppositions—attempts to enforce its IP over other companies—than Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and Google combined. Those companies also have trademarked common terms such as “Windows” or “Prime.”

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle...

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Monkeys Love Their Alcohol 4 years ago

Ethanol is far more calorie-rich and energy-rich than non-fermented sugars

That's true but there should't be any benefit in terms energy density since the energy content per mass unit in fermented fruit is lower than in unfermented. Yeast uses sugar as an energy source to grow and it converts the sugar into alcohol, CO2 and water as byproducts of its matabolism.

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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time 5 years ago

Well there are already portions of space that are expanding faster than the speed of light relative to our position. (see cosmic horizon). The CMB is not just a glowing heat somewhere far away, it's everywhere in the universe in every volume of space. The moment when every point in space (on a Planck-lenght-scale i guess) will be expanding faster than the speed of light relative to one another, than space-time itself will rip apart and that's the end of our universe - at least that is what the Big-Rip theory proposes.

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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time 5 years ago

What's "inside" of a black hole, meaning behind the event horizon is forever causally cut off from our universe. The Hawking radiation comes from the space around the event horizon. In theory black holes can become very hot if their mass is small. This happens at the end of their life which is in the order of 10^80 years for stellar black holes.

Here is a calculator to play with some values. https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...

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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time 5 years ago

Yes, black holes shrink because of Hawking radiation, but in reality this doesn't really happen because black holes are much colder than their surrounding space. Actually they are the coldest objects in nature. Stellar black holes have a temperature of a few Nanokelvins and the average temperature of space is 2.7 K so there's a net gain of energy/mass from absorbed photons from CMB radiation vs emitted photons via Hawking radiation. In order to have a higher temperature than the CMB a black hole would have to be really small with a mass about half of that of the moon.

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