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		hackandthink 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and ... "the new AirTag is 50 percent louder than the previous generation, enabling users to hear their AirTag from up to 2x farther than before" Can that really be true?

jwalton 30 days ago [–]

If you’re 2x farther away, the intensity of the sound with be 1/4, because of the inverse square law, so logically your speaker would need to be 300% louder.

sib 29 days ago | [–]

And, technically, if you are 2x farther away, you are 3x as far away, so the intensity would be 1/9.

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