Astronomers believe they've spotted the tiniest stars: brown dwarfs only a few times the size of Jupiter, lurking dimly in the darkest depths of space. Yes, Jupiter is a standard… Read the rest of the article: Tiniest stars not much larger than Jupiter

The M4 Mac Mini's small size won headlines but the surprising power of the chip is winning hearts and minds. Jerrod Hofferth designed a similarly tiny Mac Pro-style enclosure to… Read the rest of the article: Mac Mini Pro: an adorable 3D-printed enclosure by Jerrod Hofferth

The M4 Mac Mini's power button can't be reached without picking up the entire computer, small as it is, and finding it on the underside. One of those comical "design"… Read the rest of the article: Why the M4 Mac Mini power button is on the bottom

Sadly, Pizza Hut won't actually go the last mile and manufacture Pizzawarmr, its design for a pizza warmer utilizing the heat produced by a PlayStation to keep your pie hot.… Read the rest of the article: Pizzawarmr is a 3D-printable pizza warmer that uses the heat from a game console

8BitDo's Retro Keyboard (previously at Boing Boing) evokes classic Nintendo 8-bit consoles while adding mechanical keyswitches, and now there are 108 of them. Say hello to numerical keypads! And it… Read the rest of the article: 8BitDo Retro Keyboard now comes with mechanical keypad

There are no lines out the door to grab the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro, now available in stores, and as a result scalpers are selling theirs at a loss. A… Read the rest of the article: Scalpers selling PS5 Pro at a loss after slow opening weekend

I use Thunderbird because it's the only mail client that seems able to cope with thirty years of email archives I have. I always go back to it. It, though,… Read the rest of the article: Thunderbird celebrates 20th anniversary

Oral phenylephrine is sold as a nasal decongestant. It doesn't work very well, and the U.S. Food and Drug administration wants it removed from over-the-counter medications. The agency conducted a… Read the rest of the article: FDA wants to ban useless oronasal phenylephrine meds

The Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act is bipartisan legislation that would shield news reporters from having to disclose their sources and other communications to the courts, with few exceptions.… Read the rest of the article: PRESS act protecting media sources sails through the U.S. House. Tell your Senator to pass it.

Elwood Edwards died Tuesday, one day before his 75th birthday. If not a household name, Edwards was a household sound for a generation of internet users: his was the voice… Read the rest of the article: Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL's "You've got mail", dead at 74

After a rough year that saw mass layoffs, half its value lopped off at the stock market, and its delisting from the Dow index, Intel has a turnaround plan: office… Read the rest of the article: Intel to bring back office coffee to "boost morale"

Action Retro set out to make the cheapest possible Apple Macintosh, and their offering is beautifully simple—and, at $14, pretty durned cheap. You'll need a Raspberry Pi Pico and some… Read the rest of the article: $14 Mac clone made with a Raspberry Pi Pico

Not long ago, if you had an old compact digital camera in a drawer, you'd be hard-pressed to get $50 for it. Even a nice one might not fetch $100.… Read the rest of the article: Old compact cameras the hot item for Gen Zers

A federal judge ruled Monday that Google has no obligation to refund victims of scammers who trick them into buying Google Play gift cards. It is entitled to keep the… Read the rest of the article: Judge: Google can profit from gift card scams without refunding victims

Vadim Yermolenko, 43, holds both U.S. and Russian citizenship, which perhaps made it easier for him to ship sanctions-busting export-controlled electronic components from here to there. He's just pleaded guilty… Read the rest of the article: New Jersey man illegally shipped tech to Russia

Canadians can still use Tik Tok, but the Chinese-owned company is now forbidden from doing business there. CBC News reports that "the advice of Canada's security and intelligence community" factored… Read the rest of the article: Canada bans Tik Tok from operating in country, but allows the app to stay

The Australian government is planning to lock most children out of social media completely, backed by a general purpose age-verification system of the kind that can be put to other… Read the rest of the article: Australia plans total ban on social media for under-16s

NVidia, once an obscure gaming brand, now trades the title of world's most valuable company with Apple thanks to exposive demand for its graphics processors, used in AI. Now the… Read the rest of the article: NVidia to make CPUs for personal computers

Empire of the Ants is a strategy game coming to consoles and computers tomorrow. You command an army of ants—an intriguing but rarely-tackled take on the genre that updates an… Read the rest of the article: Strategy games place you in command of ant armies

If you would like to make a website look and feel exactly like Microsoft Windows 98—and whyever not?—you could do far worse than to use Jordan Scales' 98.css. It's not… Read the rest of the article: Want to make a website look like Windows 98? You'll be needing 98.css