The PalmPilot doesn’t seem to get much retrocomputing love, but maybe it should. After all, it might not have been the very first handheld, but it was probably the most successful, and that ultimately led to the era of the smartphone. Whether you miss your old Palm applications, or never got to experience them the
Read MoreLG’s new DualUp monitor is unconventional, to say the least. It doesn’t look like any monitor I’ve ever used, let alone seen. The display stands 28 inches tall with a 16:18 aspect ratio. It’s a sight you’d be forgiven for stopping and staring at, but the decision to stand out with a unique design ultimately
Read MoreIf you’ve ever done maintenance or repair work on your bicycle, you’ll know that positioning a bike in your workshop isn’t trivial. You can use your bike’s kickstand, or lean it against a wall, but then you can’t work on the wheels. You can place it upside-down, but then the shifters and brake levers are
Read MoreJoshua Oliver / Financial Times: In an interview, SBF admits involvement in Alameda’s largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance’s stake in FTX and pouring $4B into venture capital — Exchange’s former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm — Speaking from his bed in Nassau
Read MoreMore than one million small businesses use ecommerce platform Shopify to reach a global audience of consumers. That includes direct-to-consumer (DTC) all-stars like Allbirds, Rothy’s and Beefcake Swimwear. But online sellers like these are also ingesting data from platforms like Google Analytics, Klaviyo, Attentive and Facebook Ads, which quickly complicates weekly reporting. That’s where data
Read MoreThe Google Nest Wifi may have launched back in 2019, but it still holds up as a great option even today. That said, its lack of Wi-Fi 6 means it’s really starting to show its age. Enter the Google Nest Wifi Pro, which adds quite a few changes to its predecessor, including Wi-Fi 6E support.
Read MoreSwifties clearly don’t mess around. | Photo by Tommaso Boddi/WireImage A group of 26 Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster following last month’s ticketing fiasco that left users unable to buy tickets for Swift’s The Eras Tour (via Deadline). In a lawsuit submitted to a California court, the fans accuse Ticketmaster’s parent company, LiveNation of
Read MoreMuch has been made about the culture clash between older, slower, more traditional companies and younger, more dynamic, faster-moving tech start-ups. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but, generally speaking, it is very hard to reconcile the two approaches, as they are naturally in opposition to each other. The general motto among start-ups of “move fast
Read MoreJoe Rossignol / MacRumors: Kuo: mass shipments of Apple’s AR/VR headset may be delayed until H2 2023, from previously estimated Q2 2023, due to “software-related issues” — Mass shipments of Apple’s long-rumored AR/VR headset may be delayed until the second half of 2023 due to unspecified “software-related issues …
Read MoreQuite a few makers try and create devices helpful to others – today’s hack, Rocket Switch, is a lovely example of that. It’s a design by [Neil Squire] of [Makers Making Change], with a PCB that plugs onto an Adafruit Rotary Trinkey, soldering onto its exposed pads, equipping it with two headphone jacks connected to
Read MoreThe most unlikely of music formats is staging a return. Part novelty and part nostalgia, here’s how to dive in.
Read MoreFrom the Move to the Beam, we’ve tested nearly every speaker from the venerable brand. We like them all—but here are the best picks to fit your lifestyle.
Read MoreThis weatherproof camera is mounted inside a bird feeder—but its AI identification system needs work.
Read MoreA growing catalog of huge but dim “ultra-diffuse” galaxies is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.
Read MoreSocial media platforms are the new town square, but the anonymity of online profiles and algorithmically funneled echo chambers has led to toxic interactions and overconcern about how we present ourselves. While social networks claim to connect us, they often distract us from connecting with those directly in front of us, leaving many feeling paradoxically
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Following a live event that saw the previous version of the island explode, Fortnite: Chapter 4 is now here — and it includes plenty of big changes for the long-running battle royale. The most notable change is the brand-new island, which includes a number of new points of interest such as a
Read MoreThis sleek-looking and smooth-typing Das Keyboard MacTigr works flawlessly with Apple computers.
Read MoreWith all the attention given to heart rate monitoring and step counting, respiratory rate monitoring is often overlooked. Smartwatches are starting to incorporate respiratory rate monitoring more and more these days. However, current devices often simply look at breaths per minute without extracting more interesting features of the respiratory waveform which could give us more
Read MoreJoanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Autonomous trucking software company Embark lost ~98% of its market value, or ~$5B, since going public a year ago via a SPAC merger, amid a sector-wide downturn — Out of all the beaten-down public companies in the autonomous driving space, Embark Technology stands out as a conspicuously terrible stock market
Read MoreMany of us have been asking for some time now “where are our robot servants?” We were promised this dream life of leisure and luxury, but we’re still waiting. Modern life is a very wasteful one, with items delivered to our doors with the click of a mouse, but the disposal of the packaging is
Read MoreMatt Von Hippel / Quanta Magazine: A look at FORM, a 1980s software used for the hardest particle physics problems, as it risks obsolescence while being maintained almost entirely by a retiree — Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree.
Read MoreA problem faced increasingly by retrocomputer enthusiasts everywhere is the supply of chips. Once a piece of silicon goes out of production its demand can be supplied for a time by old stock and second hand parts, but as they become rare so the cost of what can be dubious parts accelerates out of reach.
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Boston- and London-based Zoe, a nutrition and health tracking app, raised £25M led by Accomplice at a £209M valuation, after closing a £48M Series B in May 2021 — Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic …
Read MoreShaji Mathew / Bloomberg: Saudi Arabian food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire local rival The Chefz for ~$173M in a cash and stock deal — Saudi food delivery firm Jahez agreed to acquire The Chefz in a cash and stock deal, almost a year after Delivery Hero SE’s attempt to buy the firm was
Read MoreBack in the late 1970s and early 1980s, engineering students would take a few semesters of drafting and there would usually be a week or two of “computer-aided drafting.” In those days, that meant punching cards that said RECTANGLE 20,30 or something like that and getting the results on a plotter. Then we moved on
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