Om Malik was a great tech blogger in the times when tech was fun. "Blogging is not about opinion but it is about viewing the world in a certain way… Read the rest of the article: Om Malik, 1966-2026

Retroid announced details of its Retroid Pocket Nova, a horizontal handheld built around a 4.5-inch 1280×960 120Hz AMOLED display in the 4:3 aspect ratio that God intended. Inside is Qualcomm's… Read the rest of the article: Retroid's Pocket Nova takes a second shot at getting 4:3 right

The Leica SL3-P is its new full-frame mirrorless camera, landing in the middle of the L-mount SL line with a 44-megapixel sensor, plain black controls and no red dot. As… Read the rest of the article: Leica's SL3-P loses the dot, gets 8K open-gate video

8BitDo's Arcade Controller Pro is a Hit Box-style device that trades the arcade stick for a button-only layout. The new model tightens the cluster and adds a fifth programmable button… Read the rest of the article: 8BitDo's button-only arcade controller gets a tiny screen

A manager at the Arbys in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, spat in a customers food, say police, an act that allegedly resulted in the victim contracting oral herpes. The Smoking Gun… Read the rest of the article: We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food

Kodak's Charmera, the keychain-sized digital camera that became a minor cultural phenomenon last year, is back with a new look. Reto, the company that makes the camera and licenses the… Read the rest of the article: Kodak's new Charmeras have Y2K vibes

Joseph McGrail-Bateup, a 58-year-old air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier from Canberra, Australia, has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's loudest person. McGrail-Bateup yelled the word… Read the rest of the article: Canberra's town crier recognized as world's loudest person with 122.4dB yell

A cyberdeck is a homemade portable computer in the cyberpunk mold (utilitarian, DIY) and NickZero's Ultra Minimal Cyberdeck [instructables.com] is exemplary: just a single-board computer, a tiny keyboard (cf. my… Read the rest of the article: Cyberdeck with punishingly minimal 30% keyboard

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields [airfields-freeman.com] collects America's half-forgotten strips and reconstructs each one's history from old aeronautical charts, topographic maps, aerial photographs, and tips from readers who flew or lived… Read the rest of the article: The obscure airfields of America

The Old English Wordhord unlocks one medieval word a day, pairing each term with its definition, pronunciation and, often, a manuscript illustration. The site's creator (or should it be wordwyrm?)… Read the rest of the article: Old English word of the day

The lining of the Reflecting Pool at Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial was painted blue to please Trump: a no-bid $14.7m contract that went to a company that had worked on… Read the rest of the article: New blue paint under Reflecting Pool already peeling

The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was designed specifically for programmers and engineers; after three decades, only… Read the rest of the article: HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form

CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that… Read the rest of the article: CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse

A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation over claims they used artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence. The BBC's Samantha Noble reports that it's thought to be the first case… Read the rest of the article: British police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence

When President Trump first showed reporters a model of the proposed United States Triumphal Arch, CBS News's Ed O'Keefe asked who it was for. "Me," said Trump. "It's going to… Read the rest of the article: Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden

The sprawling Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh is most famous as the setting for George A. Romero's 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead: the shambling zombies return out of… Read the rest of the article: Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour

Lowtein is a simple website that geolocates you and tells you about the cheapest proteins available in your location. Here in Pittsburgh, for example, it informs me that Giant Eagle… Read the rest of the article: Website tracks protein meal deals for 171 cities in U.S. and Canada

The Information reports that Microsoft is considering several ways to set loose its XBox gaming division, including spinning it out as a separate company, restructuring it as a subsidiary, or… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft may spin off struggling XBox division

An early, sticker-sealed copy of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. sold for $3m at auction today, stomping the record set in 2021. Chris Kohler writes on Bluesky that it's the first… Read the rest of the article: Sealed 1985 Super Mario Bros game fetches record $3m at auction

The president of Taipei's Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn't handle the workforce, remarks that led to widespread anger. Yang Mien-chieh and Jake… Read the rest of the article: College president suggests graduates "put a quick end" to themselves in commencement speech