There are a number of howlers in the article, but one of my favorites is "A microsecond is about a millionth of a second." No, that is the exact definition.
About what you expect from a) popular scientific press and b) Vox.
It reminds me of the discussions that I have had over the past several decades with people who still insist that the “Pogue carburetor” makes it possible for an ordinary pickup truck to get 200 mpg at highway speeds. And that the oil companies prevented the mythical carburetor from being marketed. These types of rumors started approximately 90 years ago and even Charles Nelson Pogue who patented numerous devices to increase fuel efficiency in the 1920s and 1930s denied that they had any basis in reality. But the myth lives on to this day.
Fast talking hucksters and people who are capable of writing convincing sounding documents are able to convince a substantial segment of the population that just about anything that they make up is true. One would think that with ever increasing information technology that there would be a smaller percentage of the population that is vulnerable to this type of nonsense. Current “green energy” and “global warming” controversies have taught us that people young and old are actually more vulnerable to malcontents spreading nonsense than ever before. This has allowed uninformed idiots like Al Gore and Bill Nye “the science guy” to become very effective nonsense spreading media darlings.
This is disturbing. It shows that as smart or advanced as some believe that our society has become, our innate intelligence has not increased since our Republic was founded. There seems to be substantial evidence that the movie Idiocracy is closer to the mark than many would admit.