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I just bought some neodymium magnets for a project - they arrived today and I've been fooling around with them. Out of a pocket full of change, I found some coins are attracted and others are not - do I have counterfeits???

I collected up all the coins I could find: out of 5x£1 (old), 3x50p, 7x20p, 1x10p, 2x5p, and 3x2p, one 10p one 5p and one 2p are magnetic.
 
No. They have been making plated steel coins for a number of years now to cut down the cost of raw materials.
I just checked a random bunch of coins from my pocket. 4x2p, 3x1p, 3x10p and 1x 5p are all 'magnetic'. A 1983 £1 and a 1987 2p are not. The earliest 'magnetic' 2p is 1995. So it seems like that changed the 2p between 1987 and 1995.
The reason that I put 'magnetic' in single quotes is because the coins themselves are not magnetic, but obviously made of steel or a similar ferro-magnetic substance.
 
Trev said:
The reason that I put 'magnetic' in single quotes is because the coins themselves are not magnetic, but obviously made of steel or a similar ferro-magnetic substance.
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Indeed, but the meaning was clear enough. I think nickel is also magnetic?

My coins are dated 2004 (2p), 2014 (5p), 2015 (10p). The non-magnetic 2ps are 1985 & 1987, 5p is 2006.

This must have caused havoc for the coin slot people, because I think they used to use magnetic properties to weed out fakes.
 
Your Google Home
BY ANGELA MOSCARITOLO 12 APR 2017, 9:43 P.M.

Burger King has a new ad that will either amuse or enrage those with Google Home devices or Android phones.​

During the brief spot, an actor holding a Whopper says 15 seconds just isn't enough time to extoll the virtues of the iconic hamburger. Instead, he summons the camera closer and says "Okay Google, what is the Whopper burger?" If you don't own a Google device running Assistant, that's where the experience ends.

But, if you happen to have a Google Assistant-equipped device nearby, the Burger King pitchman's question will trigger the gadget to start reading from Wikipedia about the Whopper. Clever, but definitely annoying.

Burger King isn't the first brand to hijack a virtual assistant, though this may be the first intentional effort. Back in 2014, a commercial for the Xbox One featuring Breaking Bad alum Aaron Paul accidentally activated people's consoles. In the spot, Paul gave the "Xbox on" command to turn on his Xbox One. The only problem: that command turned on the consoles of everyone watching the commercial at home.
 
The only thing I find interesting in this Burger King thing is that apparently Google didn't see it coming. It's sort of a 'well, duh' thing.
 
I heard about this on the R4 news - and apparently the Wikipedia page it causes to be read out got edited to announce that it contains arsenic (or something similar).
 
I thought WP had rules about blatant advertising like this. Is there really a page about the whoper burger? I find that distasteful, and bet it's full of cr*p.
 
Mike0001 said:
I thought WP had rules about blatant advertising like this. Is there really a page about the whoper burger? I find that distasteful, and bet it's full of cr*p.
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Apparently: Just before the advert BK edited the page to be more glowing in the first lines. Then the 'backlash' people edited it with the negative stuff, like the arsenic reference. Finally Wikipedia reset it to how it was originally. By that time Google had acted to stop their systems from responding to the TV advert.
Teacup returned to stillness :thumbsup:
 
Look on the bright side. I suppose as the marriage was illegal, they are not actually married so that will save them a bunch of money for the divorce proceedings anyway.;)
 
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