After Tesla's stock slumped last week, the White House hosted a sales event and Donald Trump himself helped CEO and "co-president" whip up some enthusiasm for the troubled car company.… Read the rest of the article: Last week, Trump helped Tesla recover stock value. This week, it's falling again

Clockwork's PicoCalc is a handheld portable computer powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico H (you might well want to upgrade to wireless). It has a qwerty keyboard, 320×320 display, SD… Read the rest of the article: PicoCalc is a $75 portable handheld computer

My main interest in Japanese electronic pocket dictionaries is seeing them on Pinterest and becoming briefly excited by the idea it might be a cool new minimalist writing gagdget being… Read the rest of the article: Japan losing interest in electronic pocket dictionaries

The engineers squeezed as much performance as they could from the 16-bit processors of yore and then turned the job of optimization over to coders. Such was the hunger for… Read the rest of the article: Why Super Nintendo consoles are getting faster as they get older

Amazon Echo users received an email notifying them that they could no longer opt out of sharing their voice recordings with the company to train Alexa's AI features. Dear Echo… Read the rest of the article: No more opting out of Alexa getting your voice recordings for AI

Wendy and Richard Pini, co-creators of American fantasy classic Elfquest, donated $500,000 to Columbia University to endow its library's growing collection of comics, graphic novels and related prose works. The… Read the rest of the article: Elfquest creators donate $500k to Columbia University Comics Archive

Sigma, famed for its lenses and offbeat camera designs, has a striking new mirrorless model out: the Sigma BF, a high-end compact camera designed to get professional results as simply… Read the rest of the article: Sigma BF is a minimalist full-frame compact camera

The dot com bubble rose in the late 1990s, peaked on March 10, 2000, then burst, with indivudal company stocks popping like popcorn on any given day and the rest… Read the rest of the article: It's 25 years since the dot com bubble burst

Maeda Mameo's Honey Bunnies renders a large number of glistening 3D rabbits in a dynamic flood of gloopily-drawn honey. My desktop computer seems to manage 60fps nicely, but I'm not… Read the rest of the article: Bring your device to its knees with this horde of 3D honey bunnies

A Pennsylvania man attempted to pass through outbound security at New Jersey's Newark Liberty international airport with a turtle concealed in his pants. The creature reportedly set off an alarm… Read the rest of the article: Man found with live turtle hidden in "groin area" at Newark airport

Q and Z (formerly at Panix) is a hidden pillar of the old web, converting text to appear to be upside-down, in a 𝔟𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔩𝔢𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯 typeface, Ɽ𐌵𐌍𐌉𐌂, or anything else made… Read the rest of the article: Convert normal text to Unicode homoglyphs to look silly, cool or clever

Alan Slattery, 67, took it upon himself to rob the Nationwide Building Society in Eastbourne, England, but the handwriting in his demand note was so bad that staff there could… Read the rest of the article: Bank robber's handwriting so bad cashiers couldn't decipher demand note

Elon Musk is an overwhelmingly successful entrepreneur with the gift of the gab, but even the "weird nerd" of internet lore knows now that he was never an engineering genius… Read the rest of the article: Most Americans now have low opinion of Elon Musk

Carl Lundstrom, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, died Tuesday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Slovenia. Lundstrom was the site's Nazi sugar daddy; the more likeable co-founders… Read the rest of the article: Pirate Bay financier dies in plane crash

Bluey and Cocomelon are the top kids' animated shows worldwide. Bluey is a hand-made family soap that appeals to children and adults alike and layers relatable tales with observational humor… Read the rest of the article: Comparison of top animated shows Bluey and Cocomelon

Stardate is a notes-taking app that keeps it simple: "Tap, talk, done!" writes creator Dean Putney, who you may remember from the olden days of Boing Boing. * Take super… Read the rest of the article: Stardate: take notes with a single tap of your iPhone or Apple Watch

The VU Air Ionizer is a 100hz IPS monitor that comes in three sizes, 24", 27" and 34", and has a unique feature: a built-in air purifier which Asus claims… Read the rest of the article: Asus's new monitors have built-in "air purifiers." But what's the CADR?

Tesla's stock price slide since the post-election highs gets all the headlines, but Donald Trump's social media platform is trading under $20 again, having lost about a third of its… Read the rest of the article: Trump Media stock also back in the toilet

Officially licensed from artist KC Green (and it is surely one of the most appropriated comic strips of all time), the This is Fine ankle socks are $9.99 from Stands.… Read the rest of the article: Official "This is Fine" socks

Roll-em-up Katamari Damacy is getting a new outing in April on Apple Arcade. The new game, titled Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE, is the first in seven years and adds social… Read the rest of the article: Katamari Damacy returning in April