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How does rice remove moisture from a cellphone?

No. No no no, can we just please stop with the rice fixes wet phones thing already? It doesn’t and you are wasting perfectly good rice. Beside that you will probably introduce smaller particles of broken rice grains into your phone causing a whole different set of problems. These articles keep getting into my feed somehow and I feel obligated to point out that this is how superstition perpetuates itself. Someone gives you bad advice, you follow it and get lucky somehow therefore that advice now makes sense. Causation does not equal correlation. If some people want to believe that rice fixes their phone, their lucky shirt helped win the game, or that breaking a mirror means 7 years bad luck, okay I know that nothing I say will help but for everyone else think about this. It’s not just water that harms your phone it’s the other things in the water like minerals, chlorine, salt, sugar, depending on where the moisture came from any number of chemical compounds. Tap water has all sorts of stuff in it besides H20. Even if the water inside evaporates it leaves behind other things that cause corrosion sometimes over a long period of time. There’s no amount of rice that will help remove these as they need to be physically cleaned. If not, you are really hoping to get lucky in that the water didn’t make it far inside of your phone. This is an actual quote from the article:

“Rice is carbohydrates, it’s starch and the starch molecules can soak up a huge amount of water so I suspect by putting your phone in a jar of dry rice, the rice carbs pull the water out of the air around each rice particle.

    — Chris Smith, The Naked Scientist

Hmm… no credentials after that name though so I’m not sure what kind of scientist he is other than a naked one I guess.

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Apple is reportedly buying Shazam

For $400 million according to Recode. Not a huge surprise since that’s what corporations do. Find something that they want to use now or in the future and buy the company that owns it. So what will Apple do with Shazam and its technology? There seems to be a lot of speculation about using it for Augmented Reality possibly even creating its own version of Google Lens. Also of importance is the fact that Apple owning Shazam could have a big impact on music services like Spotify where Shazam has at least up until now sent over a million clicks per day. All to be directed to iTunes once the deal is finalized at least one would think.

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