The Googlebook is Google's forthcoming new range of laptops, with premium hardware and Android features not offered by its low-end Chromebooks. But the main pitch is all the AI stuff… Read the rest of the article: Prompt your widgets with Googlebook, a laptop range for people into that sort of thing
A Connecticut man collared in possession of meth pills formed into the distinctive shape of Super Mario was sentenced to six years federal imprisonment earlier this week. The severe sentence… Read the rest of the article: Federal prison for Super Mario meth man
The price of groceries rose more last month than they have in nearly four years, according to annualized data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fresh veggies are now more… Read the rest of the article: Grocery prices soar as Iran war drags on
GameStop, a meme stock valued at $10bn, made an offer to buy online retailer eBay, valued at $50bn. The game company hardly seems in good health as it is, and… Read the rest of the article: eBay declines GameStop's buyout offer
Pomiferous is the world's most extensive database of apples, containing information regarding more than 7,000 varieties. They're organized by name, pollination group, harvest period, and other characteristics. Pomiferous is brought… Read the rest of the article: Pomiferous: database featuring more than 7,000 apple varieties
IBM's Selectric Composer was a special edition of the famed business-class typewriter that used proportional type instead of fixed-width characters, allowing the typist to create beautifully typeset documents that appeared… Read the rest of the article: Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts
Vouch Atlas is a decidely unscientific study of fear: fear of your laptop being stolen. The question is "Would you leave your laptop unattended in a coffee shop here for… Read the rest of the article: World map of presumed laptop theft risk in coffee shops
The Griffin Powermate nailed it: a simple, just-works USB rotary knob perfect for scrolling, zooming documents and playing Arkanoid. And it looked great, too, with brushed-metal bodywork and a glowing… Read the rest of the article: Getting the Griffin Powermate working on modern Macs
The Kodak Charmera (previously at Boing Boing) is a 30-gram keychain digicam built around a 1/4-inch 1.6MP CMOS sensor and a fixed 35mm-equivalent f/2.4 plastic lens. It shoots 1440 ×… Read the rest of the article: Design awards charmed by Kodak's $35 Charmera
A video from the Spring 2026 Commencement ceremony at the University of Central Florida's Nicholson School of Communication and Media perfectly encapsulates the information divides around AI. Speaker Gloria Caulfield,… Read the rest of the article: Clueless graduation speaker astonished to find that media students hate AI
Double Dragon was the first game I really knew back to front, the first I beat, though kid me never got past the elbow smash trick: an overpowered move made… Read the rest of the article: Did you know there was a bad Double Dragon comic book?
The Boox Tappy is a tiny Bluetooth device with two buttons and the legend "tap it" imprinted above them. You can use it to turn the pages of an ebook… Read the rest of the article: Boox Tappy is a wireless e-book page turner
Wizardry, originally coded in BASIC at the turn of the 80s, was one of the early greats in computer role-playing games, spawning a long-running series with countless spin-offs. It is… Read the rest of the article: Atari buys rights to RPG classic Wizardry
You've probably visited the Google Graveyard, which keeps track of bodies dumped by the tech giant, but the AI boom has already got it beat. There's already a veritable mountain… Read the rest of the article: AI Graveyard: 142 AI companies so far buried, many more to come
ReMarkable's progress has been quite, well, remarkable. Despite being in the shadow of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem, it (and Kobo, Boox, Supernote…) have put out nicer and more useful e-ink devices… Read the rest of the article: ReMarkable Paper Pure claimed to be 50% faster than last-gen model
Goodreads remains the dominant social media site for readers, despite the almost total hatred they seem to have for it. It has two overwhelming advantages: it already has the users… Read the rest of the article: Fantasy book community Tome shuts down
Everytime I want to make pixel art look old-timey, I find myself searching for and fussing with online filter sites that don't look right, or trying to do something clever… Read the rest of the article: Simple app to make images look like they're on an old CRT display
For the first time in half a century, humans visited the moon. If they did not land on it, that's coming soon, but they took a lot of photographs on… Read the rest of the article: NASA posts thousands more Artemis II photos
USB-C was supposed to make things easy. But standardizing the connector didn't solve the problem of what the hardware was good for, not least the cables. And now they all… Read the rest of the article: WhatCable tells you what that USB-C cable is good for
Supposedly to be found on the Springfield, Missouri Facebook Marketplace, this unusual vintage Dell laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and… Read the rest of the article: If only this gasoline-powered laptop were real
