Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) When Edward Koll and his girlfriend, Jo Narkon, bought and moved into a new house in Draper, Virginia in late September 2020, they had every reason to think that Comcast Internet would be readily available. They had done their due diligence before buying the house, plugging the address […]
Enlarge / A lot of happy developers out there in the world today. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google’s and Oracle’s argument before the Supreme Court last October left opponents of API copyrights extremely nervous. For the previous decade, Google had been arguing in lower courts that it didn’t infringe copyright law when it re-implemented Java for […]
The 8Bitdo Pro 2, launching on April 12 for $49.99. [credit: Sam Machkovech ] What’s the best all-around gamepad you can buy for most video games? You’d think in the year 2021, the answer would be simple. But between consoles, PCs, and smartphones, even the most comfortable, affordable, and solidly built gamepads come with a […]
Lonely Boy, by Roman Kroitor Girls chant “We want Paul!”—but it’s not McCartney they’re swooning over. This is the summer of 1961, and the Beatles are still more than a year away from recording Love Me Do. Instead, the heart throb du jour is a 19-year-old kid from Canada named Paul Anka. At the Atlantic […]
What comes to mind when you think of a Smart Home? Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs, video doorbells, cloud-connected robot vacuums, or smart fridges perhaps? Brands like Google/Nest or everything enabled with Amazon’s Alexa? While often providing some genuine convenience, these devices are also usually designed to invite and lock users into manufacturers’ ecosystems. Create a […]
Enlarge / Look ma, I’m on the blockchain (credit: Chris Torres | Beeple | Aurich Lawson) It has been nearly 10 years now since Ars Technica first described Bitcoin to readers as “the world’s first virtual currency… designed by an enigmatic, freedom-loving hacker, and currently used by the geek underground to buy and sell everything […]
Enlarge / FreeBSD’s core development team, for the most part, does not appear to see the need to update their review and approval procedures. (credit: Aurich Lawson (after KC Green)) At first glance, Matthew Macy seemed like a perfectly reasonable choice to port WireGuard into the FreeBSD kernel. WireGuard is an encrypted point-to-point tunneling protocol, […]
Enlarge (credit: TSMC) When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The reason for the construction frenzy […]
The OnePlus 9 Pro’s new camera block. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] The new OnePlus flagship phones have arrived—the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro. Both phones feature the Snapdragon 888, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 4500mAh battery. The big news is that both devices are 120Hz with a 6.55-inch, 2400×1080 OLED on the […]
Produced by Adam Lance Garcia and edited by Parker Dixon. Click here for transcript. (video link) Around the Orbital HQ, maybe we need to pick a weekend to give The Tree of Life another shot. Because if Patrick (H) Willems is “pretty much the Terrence Malick of YouTube” as he claims, we’ll probably quickly become […]