JerryRig burns a Galaxy S24 Ultra in a furnace to find out how much titanium was used to build it

Samsung switched to titanium for the frame of the Galaxy S24 Ultra, but there’s more to it than that. Like with Apple’s iPhones, titanium only makes up the exterior of the phone. The two companies used different designs for the interior – Samsung went for a combination of aluminum and plastic. Zack from JerryRigEverything took […]

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ChatGPT is down worldwide with widespread service outages, as the OpenAI ship burns without Sam Altman

What you need to know OpenAI has been leading the news cycle in the last week as CEO Sam Altman was fired and removed from the board of directors.  Since then, Sam Altman and several others from OpenAI have joined Microsoft. The board of directors at OpenAI has been criticized and many are questioning their […]

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Flashback: Firefox OS burns down, KaiOS rises from the ashes

The browser wars of the 90s and 2000s saw the dominant player – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – locked in a David and Goliath battle against Firefox, an open-source browser that was spun off from work at Netscape. A decade later another software war began – Microsoft was involved again with Windows Mobile, but the Goliath […]

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How Prescribed Burns Can Help Restore Eastern US Forests

By mid-afternoon, the team had seemingly painted fire onto the land, burning exactly where and what they wanted. The mature pines’ lower trunks were singed black, and the ground beneath them was charred and cleared of most of the tangled brush that had been there at the start of the day. Watching the team was […]

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Chinese smartphone design crashes and burns in pursuit of Samsung

The Chinese are ruthlessly competing in every industry. Electronics manufacturers are particularly aggressive. They want to show the world that not only can they match the market leaders on quality but that they can do it cheaper. They have made progress. Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been able to shake off the stigma attached to their […]

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