Even when turned off, items in standby mode are drawing energy and generating heat.
—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
22 June 2026
At a dinner at Tate Britain to mark his 70th birthday, it was announced that the smoke alarms would be turned off for ten minutes at the end, so that Hockney could have a cigarette with his coffee.
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