Things I learned lately 24 Feb

• There was a spread of 106 degrees Fahrenheit across the contiguous continental US on 24 Feb 2023. 34C (93.2F) in Arcadia FL, -25C (-13F) in Shelby MT. (Reported at 1pm MST)
  
  
  
• You knew it was coming sooner or later. Social media platforms are now going to ask you to pay for nice features. That’s how it starts.
• Apple is looking to get cooperation from vehicle manufacturing brands to allow owners to be able to unlock their cars using their Apple Wallet.
• In Iceland, geothermal provides 66% of the energy.
• 'Google' is the most searched word on Bing search.
• Microsoft's revenue is dominated by server products and cloud services (34%); Office products & services (23%); Windows (13%); gaming (8%); LinkedIn (7%); search advertising (6%). Google on the other hand, earns 82% of its revenue from advertising.
• It appears that Microsoft is investing heavily in OpenAI while Google is instead working with Google Brain, DeepMind and Anthropic.
• If you get PowerToys, a set of cool add-ons for Windows, one of the things you get is a tool called ‘find my mouse’. If you ever can’t find your mouse pointer, you press left ‘control’ twice and it will be momentarily spotlighted.
• Scientists and medical professionals had misgivings about using lead in gasoline right from the start (1920s), but their concerns were ignored, in large part because of the strong lead and oil  industry lobby. Workers at the first leaded gas plants were even dying of lead poisoning. The guy who invented leaded gas even suffered from lead poisoning.
• Leaded gas is still used in piston engine aircraft.
• We’re getting a ‘black toonie’ soon in Canada (pictured). The $2 coin will be honouring the late Queen Elizabeth.