The Typeframe PS-85 is a cyberdeck crafted by Jeff Merrick, inspired by Epson portable computers and the design language of 1979 science fiction-horror classic Alien. In the movie, the MU/TH/UR… Read the rest of the article: A cyberdeck to help you airlock the Alien
Noctua is a well-respected manufacturer of PC case fans and similarly unromantic cooling components. But unromantic does not mean uninteresting, as demonstrated by a lengthy article the company published explaining… Read the rest of the article: Why it took so long to make a popular PC case fan in black
Spirit Airlines, the previously-bankrupted budget carrier put out of business over the weekend by Trump's aimless Iran War and soaring oil prices, may yet have a future: a crowdfunding campaign… Read the rest of the article: Influencer hopes to crowdfund $1.75bn to buy collapsed Spirit Airlines
Ratings at CBS News fell further in the latest ratings data published by Nielsen. Even right-wing media seem to consider the management of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss a disaster for the… Read the rest of the article: CBS News ratings sink further
The Apocalypse Early Warning System is a sign of the times: it assumes the rich will know it before everyone else, and that it may therefore be deduced from signs… Read the rest of the article: Apocalypse Early Warning System tracks the rich scrambling their private jets
About 25 million years after our ancestors traded theirs for an upright stance, a research team at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design gave our long-lost tails a comeback… Read the rest of the article: Wearable tails help elderly folks keep their balance
A statue appeared mysteriously overnight on a plinth in London's Waterloo Place, showing a man in a suit, blinded by the large flag he carried, about to step off the… Read the rest of the article: Mystery statue in London is a Banksy
Police responded to the Pasadena Best Buy early Wednesday after an employee reported that cameras showed someone inside the store. Storming in, officers found Patrick Keys, 45, and arrested him… Read the rest of the article: Man hid in Best Buy at closing to get drop on new Pokémon cards
The game industry remains in a troubled state, and games journalism is under similar pressure, with high-profile shutdowns, layoffs and sales. Polygon co-founder Chris Plante (now writing as Post Games)… Read the rest of the article: Games media sites catalogued
A Pentagon official offered its first official price tag for the Iran war Wednesday, and the figure landed at a tidy $25 billion. But several lawmakers, and at least one… Read the rest of the article: Iran war has cost $25bn so far, admits Pentagon. The real cost is closer to $50bn.
The United States Senate did something good, today: it unanimously banned members from trading on prediction markets (the tech term of art for sites that let you gamble on anything)… Read the rest of the article: U.S. Senators bans themselves from trading on prediction markets
Yesterday, it was noted that OpenAI had provided its Codex coding agent with a peculiar instruction: "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures… Read the rest of the article: ChatGPT goblin infestation explained
Warehouse retailer Costco is famed for its $1.50 beef hotdogs, which come with a 20 oz. soda and haven't gon up in price since its 1980s debut. Occasionally rumors of… Read the rest of the article: Costco hot dog combo stays at $1.50, and now you can have a bottle of water with it
Warm Burnout is a theme for those who are burned out, but need to meet their deadlines. Every color is chosen to please the eyes, calm the mind, and avoid… Read the rest of the article: A coding color theme for burned-out eyes
Surveillance pricing is when a retailer sets the price of something based on what they know about you: your address, your income, your interests, your 'demographic'. Lawmakers in Maryland made… Read the rest of the article: Maryland the first state to regulate grocery surveillance pricing
The Loveland Frogman is a 4-foot-tall, bipedal frog turning up in Ohio folklore since the 1950s. And if a bill recently introduced to the legislature there passes, he'll become Ohio's… Read the rest of the article: Loveland Frogman could become Ohio's official state cryptid
Shannon Marie Harris of Tyrone, Georgia, was charged with trespassing after the plane she was on had to return to the gate because she refused to end her phone call.… Read the rest of the article: Woman refused to end call for plane safety instructions
XOXO was a festival for internet artists and creators hosted by Andy McMilland and Andy Baio, held in Portland throughout the 2010s and again in 2014. After more than a… Read the rest of the article: XOXO festival archived online
There are various LLMs that focus on public domain texts, for ethical or experimental reasons, but most also incorporate modern material (such as Wikipedia) so they have a fully contemporary… Read the rest of the article: Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts
rip.so is a "graveyard of dead internet things," with a handsome old-web aesthetic (there's even a <marquee>!) with which to enjoy the sites that capital forgot. The internet moves fast.… Read the rest of the article: Rip.so, the graveyard of dead internet things
