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A YouTuber who goes by soiboi soft built an 8×8 pixel display that uses pneumatics and stretchy silicone instead of LEDs. The effect is mesmerizing and appealing. The orange rubber panel covers 64 cavities. When a vacuum forms in one of the cavities ...

Kindle users have long turned off wifi to extend their ebook library loans. A new update is closing the loophole. For slow readers and folks who borrow way too many books at a time, the 14- or 21-day loan periods for library books are problematic. --

North Korea's Red Star Linux OS ships with a modified Firefox called Naenara ("Our country") and lets users browse Kwangmyong, the country's isolated national intranet. It also comes with an office suite, media players, and video games. It sells for ...

Jonathan Weber has written a history of San Francisco's rise as a global technology capital and the crises that came with it. City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco opens in the early 1990s, when San ...

A programmer named Fogus came across a GitHub argument about chess engine development and wrote about why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models. Hobbyists say is working code isn't the goal. They like to build operating ...

I'm not fond of bricking my hardware. But I'm very fond of Valve's SteamOS. If you haven't had the opportunity to mess with a Steam Deck or Steam Machine, SteamOS is a deliciously easy-to-use, low-maintenance Linux distribution tuned to work on their ...

The next step for AI is spatial intelligence, says Kevin Kelly. Today's models learned from text, but fail when engineers put them in a robot body because they have no sense of gravity, distance, or three-dimensional space. "The primary bottleneck ...

1999 A.D. is a short film the appliance maker Philco-Ford made in 1967 to show what family life would look like at the end of the century. It opens with a boy named Jamie, who builds a sandcastle version of his family's house on a Southern California ...

A GPS jamming exercise 100 miles away preceded a New Mexico medevac crash that killed 4 people.

Facebook monetization sent nearly $3 billion to 16.2 million accounts in 2025, some breaking its rules.