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Muxcard: a portable computer the size and thickness of a credit card

Muxcard is a working, programmable computer built into the footprint and roughly the thickness of a credit card.

11 mins ago • Rob Beschizza

Dell counters the MacBook Neo with a $599 XPS 13

Dell just announced the new XPS 13, a well-timed response to the wildly successful MacBook Neo. It starts at $599 through September, but only for…

3 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

May 2026

Harvard students cheer graduation speaker encouraging them to mercilessly destroy AI

Various business stiffs wheeled out lately to tell graduates to “deal” with AI were surprised to find themselves booed and jeered.

5 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

007: First Light review: From Denmark with love

Let me be up front: I’m not a huge James Bond fan.

8 hrs ago • Grant St. Clair

This poem perfectly captures AI-induced rage

If, like me, you’re sick of searching for literally anything on the internet only to be bombarded, against your will, by AI summaries, stick around…

8 hrs ago • Jennifer Sandlin

A Bluetooth speaker named “BOMB” ruined everyone’s flight to Mallorca

United flight UA236 was supposed to take passengers from Newark to Mallorca.

8 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Sideload Lode Runner onto your Roku

This YouTube video shows how to sideload apps onto a Roku, which is useful if your streaming box has not been doing enough 1980s computer-game…

9 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting at cops

A man was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after admitting he took shots at police in Milwaukie, Oregon, while fleeing a traffic stop.

9 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

Man who stole $11 million from prison has a new trick: escaping

Arthur Cofield was already famous for running an $11 million fraud scheme from prison with contraband phones, gold coins, and a private security…

9 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Jack Daniel’s sold a preacher story and buried the enslaved distiller

The whiskey was filtered through charcoal. The history was filtered through whiteness.

9 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Grandpa Pudding Brains says war is fine because number 69

Grandpa Pudding Brains is bragging that America has “a war going on” and the economy is booming, because apparently, the Dow hitting “number 69” is now…

9 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Florida parents scandalized by toddler flipping the bird in yearbook photo

Diplomat Elementary’s school yearbook has parents in Cape Coral, Florida, upset after it included a photo of a toddler extending their middle finger to…

10 hrs ago • Rob Beschizza

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