So, they've basically recreated alginate spheres, but with solder. Neat!

I think Alex Cranz is female.

Note: Despite the puffery, this isn’t actually a new “material”; it’s a new structure that’s still made of boring old plastic. And while the basic principles may be scalable to the nano-scale (and the researchers have offered no proof whatsoever that this claim is actually true), it will run into the curse of…

It isn’t, actually, and that’s not just, like, my opinion, man.

I was under the impression that there was NOSSING to learn about nihilism, and that if they caught anyone saying otherwise, they’d put a marmot down his pants (and cut the ‘chonson’ off repeat offenders).

The amazing thing in my case is that I actually have a Gizmodo writer following me (Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan), and yet every thread I comment on requires someone ungrayed to star me. Or does it only apply to people who are currently writing for Gizmodo (since Kelsey’s last post was in 2015)?

So, they’ve found an algorithm to solve the travelling salesman problem in polynomial time? Or does the graph building still take considerable computing resources?

Great, let’s just sell some to China and Russia the- oh, wait...

Look, even Foxtrot Alpha (which, I humbly submit, knows its shit) reported that the F-35 sucked when pitted against an F-16. And the F-16 had external fuel tanks attached.

Although Android 6.0 Marshmallow supports a new adoptive memory feature that basically treats external memory as internal memory, neither of Android’s two biggest vendors, LG or Samsung, support the feature in their new smartphones.

That last bit sounds familiar:

everything had to be written in assembly language using basic commands that also had to account for the Gameboy’s minimal storage.

Even if I assume that the always on notifications and expandable modules don’t need new drivers or APIs, that’s still 4 out of 8 items on my list that require root and Xposed on top of AOSP in order to function. I don’t consider myself a power user of any sort, but I personally find them useful, mundane even…

You are misinformed if you think that it is possible to change system-level settings such as the power menu or volume controls using ‘hidden options’ or ‘third-party apps’. At the very least, these changes require root access. If this was possible without deep changes to system function calls, there wouldn’t be Xposed…

A lot of that can be enabled through hidden options... or similar through an app.

Well, here’s a few things that I’m pretty sure this phone can do that a vanilla AOSP build cannot:

How exactly is this device “merging together to [sic] gadgets”, particularly the Surface Pro and iPad Pro?

Yes. That link is meant for the 5G section.

TIL ‘skeptic-bro-ism’ (or is it ‘bro-skepticism’, in analogy to ‘bro-science’?) was a thing. And that both enlightens and depresses me.

I retract my previous statement and apologize for my presumptuous reply. In my defense, if you had led with the methodological problems of Olofsson’s study, I’d have been more likely to be skeptical of the blog post’s claims, instead of jumping to the conclusion that you dismissed the entire thing as woo from the…