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Retroid’s Pocket Nova takes a second shot at getting 4:3 right
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…
 • Rob Beschizza
ICE does in-person Instagram moderation now
ICE agents reportedly tracked down a Syracuse poll worker on Election Day to demand she remove an Instagram post, because apparently, federal…
 • Jason Weisberger
Apple raises prices because AI ate the RAM
Generative AI was supposed to make computers smarter, but its most immediate consumer benefit appears to be making every other computer more expensive.
 • Jason Weisberger
Ignoring tire tracks, NPS hunts mystery Reflecting Pool vandal
The Park Service has reported the matter to the Park Service, and justice is presumably circling the basin looking for parking.
 • Jason Weisberger
A rare Bob Ross painting could sell for a happy little fortune
Bob Ross taught us anyone could paint. He did not promise anyone could afford a Bob Ross.
 • Jason Weisberger
New Jersey has a road called Shades of Death and residents grease the sign to stop theft
Shades of Death Road is a real two-lane road in Warren County, New Jersey, running 6.7 miles through forest and swamp.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
In 1858 the Thames smelled so bad that Parliament fled and Disraeli called it a ‘Stygian pool’
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.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet
From July to September 2001, heavy downpours of red-colored rain fell across the southern Indian state of Kerala, staining clothes pink.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The $999.99 iPhone app that did absolutely nothing sold 8 copies before Apple killed it
In August 2008, German developer Armin Heinrich released I Am Rich on the App Store for $999.99 — the maximum price Apple allowed.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A mountain man spent 25 years eating the livers of the people who killed his wife
In 1847, a young Crow hunting party killed the wife of John Garrison Johnston, a former Navy deserter turned mountain man in Montana Territory.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Leica’s SL3-P loses the dot, gets 8K open-gate video
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…
 • Rob Beschizza
Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal
The simplest explanation is usually correct, unless you are Trump, in which case the simplest explanation is that Joe Biden personally radicalized a…
 • Jason Weisberger
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