electronic music Was this 1968 Finnish recording the prototypical birth of hardcore techno? Gareth Branwyn

music Make your own techno and acid beats with this fun and free online clone of the legendary TR-909 drum machine David Pescovitz

music German musician releases new album on an N64 cartridge Thom Dunn

techno The KLF reemerge from the shadows, music back online Gareth Branwyn

music Half-Life with all sounds replaced with rave music samples David Pescovitz

music Aphex Twin will be streaming his Warehouse Project show with interactive visuals tomorrow, April 10 Gareth Branwyn

music This fellow dances harder than should be humanly possible David Pescovitz

music Watch this 1986 report about house music on Chicago's local TV news David Pescovitz

music Listen, free: Four Tet's new two-track, 40-minute album, "Morning/Evening" Xeni Jardin

gadgets So long, FireWire Rob Beschizza

BBC threatens AI firm Perplexity over content scraping Rob Beschizza

photos The secret world of Victorian microphotography: shrinking images to the size of a pencil tip Popkin

Entertainment Disney's new Test Track ride will let you survive a near-death experience Ruben Bolling

gadgets Retrospective of the Bic Cristal pen Rob Beschizza

Games Somehow, The Alters has made survival games interesting again Grant St. Clair

Games Old Adobe Flash games preserved by Flashpoint Archive Rob Beschizza

gadgets Seneca keyboard for people with stoic financial advisors Rob Beschizza

autocracy Technocrats help pay for Trump's autocrat military parade Séamus Bellamy

Technology Disney and Universal file major copyright lawsuit against Midjourney over AI-generated characters Ellsworth Toohey

politics New Washington Post opinion editor promises "unapologetically patriotic" content "improved" by "technology" Rob Beschizza