And they were doing so well, too! This must be part of that brand revitalization Xbox — oh, sorry, XBOX — has been bragging about since getting a new CEO.… Read the rest of the article: Xbox raises console prices by up to $150 starting August

I can't pretend I'm immune to Nintendo DS nostalgia, okay? Nintendo's little clamshell that could was the last true handheld console we ever got (well, to be technical, its eventual… Read the rest of the article: Make your phone look and feel like a Nintendo DS

Truly, the turning of the seasons can be best measured by the rotating Steam sales. More than anything else, it feels like these are the factor most responsible for Valve… Read the rest of the article: Steam Summer Sale is back with Witcher 3 at $4, Cyberpunk under $20

In 1897, The Strand Magazine — the London monthly best known as the home of Sherlock Holmes — published a photograph of a polished green jade specimen under the heading… Read the rest of the article: The Strand once published a jade specimen worth exactly one fat man

In April 1993, Aum Shinrikyo — the cult that would gas the Tokyo subway two years later — purchased Banjawarn Station, a remote sheep ranch covering 404,680 hectares (about a… Read the rest of the article: A Japanese doomsday cult bought a million-acre Australian sheep ranch to test sarin gas

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

TL;DR: For just $21.97 (reg. $49.99), you can get a portable charging tool that fits right on your keyring. Get the GoCable: 8-in-1 Keyring Cable before the sale ends tomorrow!  Traveling with… Read the rest of the article: Cut cable clutter with this 8-in-1 keyring charging tool for $22 during Deal Days

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

ICE agents reportedly tracked down a Syracuse poll worker on Election Day to demand she remove an Instagram post, because apparently, federal immigration enforcement now includes showing up in person… Read the rest of the article: ICE does in-person Instagram moderation now

Generative AI was supposed to make computers smarter, but its most immediate consumer benefit appears to be making every other computer more expensive. The Verge reports that Apple is raising… Read the rest of the article: Apple raises prices because AI ate the RAM

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool mystery has everything: alleged vandals, a $16 million rush job, algae, peeling blue coating, and one enormous clue shaped like the presidential motorcade that drove… Read the rest of the article: Ignoring tire tracks, NPS hunts mystery Reflecting Pool vandal

A Bob Ross painting titled Mountain Summit is headed to auction June 30, and the proceeds will benefit Ball State PBS, the Muncie station that helped turn Ross's soft-spoken landscape… Read the rest of the article: A rare Bob Ross painting could sell for a happy little fortune

Shades of Death Road is a real two-lane road in Warren County, New Jersey, running 6.7 miles through forest and swamp. According to Weird NJ, residents have gone "so far… Read the rest of the article: New Jersey has a road called Shades of Death and residents grease the sign to stop theft

By the summer of 1858, three million Londoners were flushing their sewage into the Thames through an aging system that emptied directly into the river. Temperatures hit 48 °C (118… Read the rest of the article: In 1858 the Thames smelled so bad that Parliament fled and Disraeli called it a 'Stygian pool'

From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-colored rain fell across the southern Indian state of Kerala, staining clothes pink. Yellow, green, and black rain also appeared. Each milliliter… Read the rest of the article: Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet

In August 2008, German developer Armin Heinrich released I Am Rich on the App Store for $999.99 — the maximum price Apple allowed. The app displayed a glowing red gem.… Read the rest of the article: The $999.99 iPhone app that did absolutely nothing sold 8 copies before Apple killed it

In 1847, a young Crow hunting party killed the wife of John Garrison Johnston, a former Navy deserter turned mountain man in Montana Territory. According to historian Andrew Mehane Southerland,… Read the rest of the article: A mountain man spent 25 years eating the livers of the people who killed his wife

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

A while ago, we talked about the fact that Meta's employees were upset that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to watch them use their computers while they were on the clock. It's… Read the rest of the article: Facebook employee data exposed in Meta's own surveillance program

During Grandpa Puddin' Brain's first term, he declared that COVID-19 wasn't a big deal. He asserted that he wouldn't close the country down for a flu, so COVID wasn't gonna… Read the rest of the article: CDC buried this COVID vaccine study, so scientists published it anyway