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May 23

Does FaceTime Audio work on Macs purchased in China?

The article about FaceTime mentions that the Audio only version does not work on iPhones or iPads purchased in China, but it never mentions Macs. Does FaceTime Audio work on Macs purchased in China? Félix An (talk) 10:53, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

</&h6>

I can't reproduce it. You'll have to look at the edit box to see what I am seeing.

Where is it coming from and what does it mean?

It showed up for some reason after the name of the author or source in news stories online.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:45, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

My post is meant to be read as rendered, not as I had to write it in the source. The edit box says </&h6>. It probably originated as </h6> which marks the end of a level 6 heading in HTML.[1] When HTML tags like that have to be displayed instead of being interpreted as HTML, it's common to use Character encodings in HTML#HTML character references. < becomes < (lt = less than) while > becomes > (gt = greater than). That would convert </h6> to </h6>. You have an extra & before h6 in the edit box. I don't know where that is coming from. Can you give a link where you see the string? Maybe some software tried to automatically read an author or source name but also got an ending </h6> and converted it to avoid a HTML interpretation. The HTML would also be invalid since an ending </h6> should be paired with a starting <h6>. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:17, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I'm afraid I can't link to the string. It requires use of my library card. Maybe someone with access to NewsBank can see it. The headline information is "'The Briefcase,' May 23, 2023, News & Record (Greensboro, NC), Page: 8A | Section: Main."— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:29, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Whatever caused it, if you want to cite it as a source then just ignore it. It's stray code and not part of an intended name unless it's an oddly titled text about HTML. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:59, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

I was just reading the article but I was trying to understand where that came from.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:02, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Intel "Advanced Research and Development Labs"?

Hi. I'm tidying up the Genevieve Bell article, and find two references to "advanced research and development labs" (lowercase). I was going to capitalise them, but can't find any evidence that a group of that name ever existed within Intel.

But, if the author intended informal use, ie, lowercase, then why specify "advanced" (twice) at all? Are some Intel labs not advanced, and the author wanted to make the distinction? -- Doktor Züm (talk) 22:14, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

The sources to which this is referenced do not contain the word "advanced" or "lab(s)". They mention "the People and Practices research group" and "a new research group called Interaction and Experience Research — IXR". The first of these is undoubtedly the same as "the People and Practices Research Lab (PaPR)" mentioned in Intel Research Lablets. Since, according to our article, all Intel Research Lab(let)s were shut down by the end of 2011, it is unlikely a new research group was set in June 2010 to operate under the aegis of one of these labs. There is an organizational entity named just "Intel Labs" and called "a global research organization"^[2] on which we have no article and whose relation to the former Intel Research Labs is unclear. The IXR was described by Intel as "a new research division",^[3] presumably within Intel Labs.  --Lambiam 15:54, 24 May 2023 (UTC)