Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis' 1985 time-travel fantasy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, offers two title drops: lines of dialog that contain the name of the movie.… Read the rest of the article: Site collects "Title Drops"—when someone says the name of the film, in the film

Junocam is attached to NASA's Juno probe in orbit around Jupiter, and has vastly outperformed its specification, sending home unexpectedly clear images of its moons as well as the swirling… Read the rest of the article: Junocam captures amazing new images of Jupiter

Nintendo's Wii, while not as wee as its modern handhelds, was a compact console and its minimal design—slimmer than a 2006 Mac Mini and nicer to look at!—helped revive the… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo Wii gutted and filled with modern PC parts instead

The nonprofit arm of Mozilla, maker of the web browser Firefox, has laid off 30% of its staff and wound up its advocacy division. The news was broken by Zack… Read the rest of the article: Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of staff, winds up advocacy division

Which?, the magazine of the UK Consumers' Association, reports that its test of air fryers revealed that the gadgets were sharing user data with third parties for marketing purposes. The… Read the rest of the article: Your air fryer may be spying on you

Switch games will be compatible with the forthcoming follow-up to Nintendo's popular but long-in-tooth portable console. But company president Shuntaro Furukawa offered few further details about the new system in… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo confirms Switch 2 will be backwards compatible

The polls are open today across the U.S. If you haven't already done so, we strongly recommend that you go to your local polling station and vote for Kamala Harris… Read the rest of the article: We strongly recommend you vote for Kamala Harris today

After years of growing concern about its poor condition, the Arecibo telescope's famed reflector was suddenly ruined by the collapse of its receiver into the dish in 2020. Engineers have… Read the rest of the article: Report on why the Aricebo Observatory's 305-meter telescope collapsed

Tech staff at the New York Times are striking for better pay and conditions. The guild said in a statement that its members would protest daily outside the company's headquarters… Read the rest of the article: New York Times tech workers on strike

GaryOderNichts, a hacker working on Nintendo's Alarmo alarm clock, has gotten Doom running on it. The classic threshold of functionality for owned hardware, Doom runs fine on the tiny bedside… Read the rest of the article: Doom for Nintendo Alarmo

In 1990, Sheila Keen-Warren dressed as a clown and killed the wife of a man she later married, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Marlene Warren, and… Read the rest of the article: Florida killer clown who murdered husband's then-wife completes her 18-month prison term

Amazon recently announced its first color Kindle e-reader and began sending them out, but a problem with the displays means it won't be shipping to more customers just yet. Michael… Read the rest of the article: Amazon pauses shipping on color Kindles after display problems (Updated)

Legendary music producer Quincy Jones is dead at 91, reports the Associated Press. Jones' publicist, Arnold Robinson, says he died Sunday night at his home in the Bel Air section… Read the rest of the article: Quincy Jones dead at 91

Apple's new M4 Max chip is the "performance king" in single-threaded benchmarks, reports Tom's Hardware, with a clear lead over high-end (~$600) competition such as AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X and… Read the rest of the article: M4 Max posts spectacular benchmarks

Apple's iPod is gone—phased out between 2014 and 1017, with the touchscreen version discontinued in 2019—but the ingenious clickwheel interface is immortal. Fans of games that used it are evading… Read the rest of the article: Fans save iPod clickwheel games for posterity

Following in Red Lobster's clawsteps, TGI Friday's is cooked. The casual dining chain filed Saturday for bankruptcy protection after "abruptly" closing about a third of its locations. About half have… Read the rest of the article: TGI Friday's files for bankruptcy

Chaosium's 1984 pen-and-paper role playing game based on fantasy series Elfquest (recently at Boing Boing) is getting a deluxe, remastered 40th Anniversary boxed set. It's $20 for a digital edition… Read the rest of the article: Classic Elfquest pen-and-paper RPG gets deluxe box-set edition

The lack of a professional image-editing app is an obvious hole in Apple's own app lineup, and its acquisition of Pixelmator fills it. The deal gets it Pixelmator Pro, Pixelmator… Read the rest of the article: Apple buys top image-editing app maker Pixelmator Team

Russ Crandall's retrogaming YouTube channel stands on the precipice of doom because of the platform's three-strikes rule. Nintendo has issued two DMCA takedowns, against videos showing Nintendo games running on… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo would rather you not see its games running better on other companies' hardware

"Jaywalking" is the ultra-American crime of crossing a road on foot. In principle a safety measure, it was fact a gift to the car industry and in practice functions as… Read the rest of the article: "Jaywalking" legalized in New York City