“Anyone remember the 2005 sci-fi movie Stealth? As far as I can remember, it involves a secret, artificially intelligent U.S. Air Force fighter plane that rebels against its creators when it is struck by lightning.”

I was a computer programmer in the Air Force. There are literally thousands of programs named some variation of Skynet, because everyone thinks it’s hilarious.

They fill them with vitamin Pb if they do get sick.

Lifehacker is about improving productivity and efficiency. It is more efficient to charge your phone with a cable than a wireless charger for a variety of reasons. Easy-peasy.

I’m not really concerned about the added power usage. I would like, to know, however, what impact wireless charging has on the wear-and-tear of the battery. Because in my mind, the devices I’ve been charging wireless have lasted much longer than traditionally-charged devices due to not wearing out the charging port.

In the example given it took 14.26wH to charge the phone. Multiplied by 365 (once a day for a year) gives about 5200wH, or 5.2kwH. My city rates (which I understand are pretty cheap) are $0.10300 per kwH, giving a yearly cost of $0.53/year. The article says wireless charges are about half the efficiency, so figure a…

The sole reason that I started using a wireless charger exclusively is that the most common failure point on my phones has been the charging port. Crud and pocket lint gets shoved up there, the contacts wear out, and if a phone case has a little rubber flipper to protect the port, that rubber flipper wears out and…

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard...

Tetraethyl lead, plastics, DDT, aluminum pots, pans, and cans, trans fats, the list goes on... There were plenty of deadly things out in the environment before, but not at levels seen in the years after WWII.

The study makes it sound like it’s a slippery slope from cognitive decline to Alzheimer’s. Lot of us olds have some decline - because we don’t use our brains in the same manner we used to, so when a test requires that process, we appear unable. I can count back from 100 by 7's but I am accustomed to having a computer…

I used to know a hundred phone numbers off the top of my head. I barely know my own number now.

As a neuroscientist, this study is alarmist at the very least and suffers from huge experimental flaws in the measurement and comparison of the various so called generational groups. So many numerous factors can bias the results and the post-hoc conclusions of the authors of this study. First of all the cognitive…

Remember when 70,000 deaths was shocking? Those were the days. Good times.

She wasn’t the Drug Czar, she was the drug cellar. She’s not actually a human, just one giant bag of coke with a blonde wig pulled from the dumpster behind the Fox News offices.

Is there a gofundme for that buyout?

Now we know who supplied Sammy Sosa his skin cream.

This is what happens when you devalue workers and silicon valley libertarians ‘disrupt’ industries so they can make a cut (Seemingly the largest cut) of the work that you perform, even though they really do very little.

Very. I hardly ever cobble my own brogans these days.

“We’re disappointed that, in the midst of this crisis and when food delivery is more essential than ever, Portland’s City Council has passed a dramatic and arbitrary cap that will have the unintended consequence of reducing sales for local restaurants and earning opportunities for delivery workers,” a DoorDash…

Surely there’s only one answer? Other than that this list is supergreen