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The problem is that it’s not stupidity, it’s malice.

Wikipedia didn’t use archive.today, editors do (well, did) when providing citations. Wikipedia itself automatically submits every cited URL to archive.org, with which they have a loose partnership, for archiving.

Fucking spineless tech bro weasels… 🤬 (With my apologies to actual mustelids for the wording.)

Ummmm... 4.5kg doesn't add up, either. 5% of 40kg is 2kg, 10% is 4kg.

If you’ve replaced the cables at some point, that could be your reason for better results: in 2019, Apple changed the contact plating in the Lightning connector from gold to rhodium-ruthenium, which is much better at resisting arcing damage than gold. The new plating is just silver colored, so...

But in the Apple Event keynote video*, Apple explicitly said they moved everything they could into the hump plateau to make more room for a bigger battery. I suppose it’s much easier and cheaper to make a battery of uniform thickness (even if it has weird cutouts, like for the SIM card in the...

Actually it’s a very, very bad surrogate! Streaming an iTunes movie on endless repeat will basically run the WiFi radio in spurts to download, buffering enough for a little while and then going idle, then using the dedicated hardware video decoder in the GPU to decode and display the video. (I...

As others have said, it’s actually exactly the other way around. The leaf spring contacts and the retention springs are what go bad in a connector. In Lightning, both of those are in the port; in USB-C, both of those are in the plug. Granted, Apple used better springs in Lightning jacks than...

What is extra heartbreaking about the 2015 case is that the kid in question did receive a measles vaccine as an infant. So his was a case where the parents did everything right, but for whatever reason the immunity did not “take”, leaving him reliant on herd immunity, unbeknownst to probably...

So… pro-parasitism?

Ars, you do know that a Blu-ray disc and a DVD are different, right? When you rip a Blu-ray, you get a Blu-ray rip. (I can forgive a hapless consumer for using the terms sloppily, but come on, a tech journalist should do better.)

Seriously. I don’t want thin. I want flat, and I want long battery life. Make the camera optics really good, and let their thickness (or even a bit more) define the thickness of the entire phone. No humps, bumps, or other protrusions. Make the circuit boards as small as possible, and then fill...

The original, 2006-2009 iteration of Triluminos used RGB LEDs. In 2010 they abandoned that and switched to quantum dot Triluminos. In essence, it’s just Sony’s brand for wide-gamut displays. As for LED aging, I actually kinda doubt it’d be a big problem. And it isn’t too hard to embed a sensor...

If this situation ends up in court, it’ll likely require the courts to decide what the Smithsonian Institution (SI) actually is. Because while SI was created by Congress, it is not a government agency, nor apparently subordinate to Congress. It’s a 501(c) nonprofit, but has special status. So...

I have such mixed feelings about this: On the one hand, calling those journals “junk science” is ridiculous, and removing government employees’ access to them is likely a very, very bad idea. On the other hand, I have nothing but disdain for academic publishing companies, which rake in insane...

Until not all that long ago, handwritten job applications (or at least cover letters) were also expected here in Switzerland. And insanely (to my eyes, and many others’), employers would then send the short-listed candidates’ handwritten documents to graphologists who’d send back reports about...

I’ve already seen YouTube ads that have a prominent caption saying “Made with AI” burned right into the video. I’m annoyed that I can’t remember what brand it was, because it was a brand I already hated before, and now I hate them even more…

These are tests taken before going to university. Testing locations are typically high schools.

FDA rules require cheeses to be made from pasteurized milk or be aged 60 days or more for commercial importation. This is a semi-hard cheese that must be aged for a minimum of 75 days according to its protected origin standards, with 3-4 months recommended as the optimal age. So this cheese is...

Incidentally, I’ll mention that scraping tete de moine cheese really isn’t just for fun: I once tasted a bit of it I cut off with a knife, and it was profoundly disappointing. That was probably 30 years ago so I can’t remember in what way it was awful, only that it was awful. Scraping it...