Backrooms, Kane Parsons' movie based on the internet lore, has entered a new liminal space, the threshold where critics have seen it but you have not. They love it, giving… Read the rest of the article: Critics like being in the Backrooms

The forthcoming folding iPhone, presumed to be named the iPhone Ultra¹, is hardly shrouded in the usual secrecy: leaks, renders and regulatory filings revealed the details. And now third-party case… Read the rest of the article: Folding iPhone case ads all but announce the device itself

Louis Wain was famous for his cat paintings, especially the more abstract and proto-psychedelic ones produced after he suffered a severe head injury and subsequent mental breakdown. Two of his… Read the rest of the article: Louis Wain cat paintings found in dumpster

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I… Read the rest of the article: ZX Spectrum basic interpreter remade from scratch on the web

Vertu, based in London, used to make luxury bling-phones covered in filigree and Swarovski crystals. The designs were tasteless, the technology was dated, and the company bled out in the… Read the rest of the article: Blingphone brand Vertu folded years ago, but now has a folding phone

Illinois's Volo Museum houses a replica of KITT, the sentient Trans Am from 1980s TV classic Knight Rider. Its operators are baffled by the traffic tickets the car keeps receiving.… Read the rest of the article: Knight Rider car never leaves museum but keeps getting tickets

If a thick sheen of slop doesn't give the game away, YouTube will expose AI-generated video for what it is. The site announced today that such uploads would be labeled… Read the rest of the article: YouTube to label AI videos automatically

A Google employee was charged with fraud Wednesday after allegedly winning $1.2m betting on Google trends at gambling site Polymarket. Michele Spagnulo, 36, used insider info, prosecutors say, to run… Read the rest of the article: Google employee charged with fraud after winning $1.2m on Polymarket

With AI datacenters gobbling up every stick of RAM, every SSD and every graphics chip going, it's no wonder that China is bootstrapping domestic production of GPUs. The flagship Lisuan… Read the rest of the article: China's flagship GPU isn't fast, but it is popular

All-in-one desktop PCs have a lot to recommend them: they're compact, cable-free, and you don't have to price out accessories. On the other hand, it's like a laptop you can't… Read the rest of the article: Lenovo's pretty Yoga all-in-one costs a pretty penny

Chung Yong-jin, the retail tycoon in charge of Starbucks Korea, apologized yesterday for a marketing campaign that made fun of a 1980 massacre of pro-democracy protestors. It was the executive's… Read the rest of the article: Starbucks Korea chief apologizes for massacre-themed marketing promotion

The Sinclair-o-Matic generates logotype in the style of the old Sinclair computer mark, with sliders for stroke width, character width, spacing and several other variables. Type in the box and… Read the rest of the article: Make your own futuristic computer logo with the Sinclair-o-Matic

Cut like a gemstone and featuring all the named elements (with two wildcards), the Periodic Table D120 dice is a desktop fascinator that might be useful for some extremely peculiar,… Read the rest of the article: Periodic Table D120 dice precision-cut from element 13

The K6 Project aims to record and map red telephone boxes in the United Kingdom, these being a much-loved vestige of an earlier era in telecommunications. Unlike in other countries,… Read the rest of the article: K6 Project maps Britain's red telephone boxes

Hengefinder is an app that, given times and places, can help you experience "stunning moments when the sun or moon aligns perfectly with city streets and buildings." A "henge" is… Read the rest of the article: Hengefinder finds streets that perfectly frame the setting sun

The Trump Phone was supposed to be made in America, but ended up being a white-label knockoff of something or other. If it finally exists (if not as a shipping… Read the rest of the article: 27,224 people pre-ordered the Trump Phone

The Center for Intellectual Freedom is a comically-named educational institution established by Iowa's conservative legislature to counter the liberal indoctrination of traditional education. Few students have availed themselves of its… Read the rest of the article: University of Iowa students must take Intellectual Freedom classes whether they want to or not

A Green Party councillor in Cork wants the Irish city to honor the mosquito blamed for killing Oliver Cromwell, the English Lord Protector whose conquest of Ireland made him a… Read the rest of the article: Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell

Motion pictures are more likely to star a man named "Chris" or a talking animal than a woman over 60 years old, according to Age Without Limits, a British charity… Read the rest of the article: Films more likely to star talking animals than older women

A reported corpse in the bushes of an English neighborhood was a discarded sex doll, according to the Peterborough Telegraph, ending a brief panic in the Orton Wistow area on… Read the rest of the article: "Dead body" turns out to be a sex doll