Note: this post is published but still in progress. Spot something missing or amiss? Comment at the end š. TL;DR: ThinkPad has shipped continuously since October 1992 under two corporate owners (IBM 1992 to 2005, Lenovo 2005 to present), making it among the longest-running commercial laptop families on the marketContinue Reading
Back in 2019, I built a simple voltmeter clock: The clock, version 1. As the name implies, these clocks use analog panel voltmeters instead of traditional clock faces to display time. I didnāt come up with the idea, so I never really blogged about the design; I just built oneContinue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In the wake of a devastating supply chain attack in the npm registry that left millions of enterprise applications compromised and billions of user records exposed, developers across the JavaScript ecosystem expressed deep sorrow today, lamenting that such a crisis was completely unavoidable. āItās a shame,Continue Reading
(Image credit: TemPolor) TemPolor Melo-D guitar promises to create entire songs from singing or playing a melody, using AI Auto-generated backing tracks and guitar tabulation, too $349 early bird on Kickstarter Ever wished you could get AI to help you play guitar and compose songs? Melo-D promises to do justContinue Reading
Every week, somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users, roughly the population of a small country, show signals of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the model. The low end of that range is the suicide-planning indicator alone. The high end groups all three categories OpenAIContinue Reading
May 12, 2026 Iāve never graduated before. I mean, from college. So all the cap and gown stuff is new to me. Fun fact #1: you rent your cap and gown in the US. You have to return them. And theyāre expensive, too! I paid $94 just for the privilegeContinue Reading
General Motors has laid off more than 10% of its IT department, or about 600 salaried employees ā in a deliberate skills swap: clearing out workers whose expertise no longer fits and making room for some with AI-focused backgrounds. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it had conducted layoffs; they wereContinue Reading
NASA Following the success of its Artemis II crewed mission, NASA is now turning its focus to the next milestones in its plan to put astronauts back on the moon. The space agency has been eyeing a moon landing in 2028, and it’s tapped Blue Origin and SpaceX to provideContinue Reading
The people have spoken, and their message is clear: Rotating a phone into landscape is just too dang hard. Amazon is the latest company to adopt a TikTok-like vertical short-form video, in the form of Prime Video’s new Clips feature. The short-form video feed is a new addition to PrimeContinue Reading
By Ronan Shields Ā ā¢Ā May 7, 2026 Ā ā¢ Ivy Liu The Trade Deskās Q1 revenues of $689 million may suggest holding-company spats are a mere bump in the road, but confirming the exit of CSO Samantha Jacobson hours before its market disclosure shows complications can come from all directions. TheContinue Reading
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