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

Robert McMordie's A technical history of Acorn Computers is a concise and occasionally darkly funny hypertext concerning the 1970s British computing startup that made some excellent machines but ran out… Read the rest of the article: Lost history of Acorn Computers reveals the British tech giant that almost was

My young son has discovered the animation and music of Cyriak Harris (previously at Boing Boing) and all hell has now broken loose at home. He is most enchanted by… Read the rest of the article: Surreal animator Cyriak Harris's essential music compilation: Bits & Bobs

Anthony Flack's Bomb Jack Extra Sugar is a remake of arcade classic Bomb Jack for the Amstrad CPC, an 8-bit microcomputer popular in Europe in the 1980s. It's a remarkable… Read the rest of the article: Amazing remake of Bomb Jack for 40-year-old 8-bit computer

HP is famed for a long history of powerful and useful computer stuff, but its inket printers might better be considered infamous for how hostile they are to customers. Locked… Read the rest of the article: New HP printer firmware so locked down you can't even use HP ink

Tesla stock is down 13 percent since trading opened Monday morning, wiping out the last of the automaker's gains since the election and leaving the company worth less than half… Read the rest of the article: Tesla stock face-plants after latest Musk meltdown

The 11-inch MacBooks were compact, capable and good-looking. Discontinued in 2019, nothing similar's come along since from Apple, though rumors emerge now and again. The reason seems obvious: that segment… Read the rest of the article: Chuwi's Minibook X N150 is a great (and inexpensive) little laptop

The Virtual Keypunch is the work of N. Landsteiner—and startlingly complete in detail and authenticity. You'll be relieved to gear that IBM/360 Column Binary Format is fully supported. Type and… Read the rest of the article: Make your own virtual punchcard

Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, was overwhelmingly the choice of Canada's governing Liberal Party as its new leader. Carney will… Read the rest of the article: Canada's Liberals pick Mark Carney as new leader and Prime Minister

Among the many gadgets shown off at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona were oddities one can only hope end up on store shelves. Ars Technica's Scharon Harding… Read the rest of the article: Weird gadgets at Mobile World Congress

In the footage embedded below, Korean news anchor Cho Chang Beom drawls his way through a segment; Ron Burgundy would be appalled! If his station felt obliged to put him… Read the rest of the article: Watch a drunk news anchor drawl his way through segment

Johnny Somali, an influencer noted only for his loathesomeness, is the winner of a stupid prize for his abusive antics: legal sanctions abroad. He turned up "late and hungover" to… Read the rest of the article: Late and hungover, influencer Johnny Somali pleads guilty in Korean court

Flash (and the Actionscript 2 language that came with it) was the convenience that finally got my middling mind wrapped around making games. And that is true of many game… Read the rest of the article: Beautiful site charts how Flash games shaped the industry

Employers in the U.S. announced more firings in February that any year since 2009. Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas's totals 172,017 jobs lost last month; CNN blamed the Trump… Read the rest of the article: Job losses highest since 2009

The Republic of Ireland's life expectancy of 82.3 years now exceeds that of England, according to a Europe-wide study published in Lancet Public Health. People can expect to live for… Read the rest of the article: Ireland's life expectancy now higher than England's

Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to cease letter collection and delivery. Volume is down 90% since the beginning of the new millennium, they say; the public boxes will be… Read the rest of the article: PostNord, Denmark's postal service, to end letter delivery

Artificial Intelligence is a useful and misleading term for the powerful and sometimes convincing text generators swarming the internet. The technical reality is abstruse, to say the least. Osman Recai… Read the rest of the article: How LLMs work, put simply

I've been rediscovering Limmy's Show lately, and among his finest work is this sketch about the hovering salespeople in high-street electronic stores and how they transmit market segmentation to the… Read the rest of the article: Shopping for consumer electronics in Scotland