The GameBoy is a classic piece of equipment, and if you want to live those glory days with a bit more power, blogger Max Thrun shows off how to turn a BeagleBone Black into a handheld device that can play a wide range of games. Read more…
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Build Your Own GameBoy-Sized Handheld with a BeagleBone
This may not come as a huge surprise, but life is different for the rich and the poor. Rich people relax by eating oysters. Poor people relax by smoking cigarettes. At least that’s what we’re led to believe based on a new study about how the presence of certain chemicals can indicate how rich or poor a person is. Read more…
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Rich People Are Full of Different Chemicals Than Poor People
An incredible fact from a fascinating new Buzz Aldrin interview: the Saturn V was only making 7 inches to the gallon at the moment of launch. Of course, the fuel economy improves dramatically when you actually take into consideration the entire distance travelled. Read more…
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Did you know that the Saturn V’s fuel economy was 7 inches per gallon?
A great artist can make beauty out of any medium, no matter how limited. 97-year-old Hal Lasko embodies this concept. Instead of painting with dozens of expensive brushes or high-end software suites, Lasko uses a tool most of us have used and abandoned years ago—Microsoft Paint from Windows 95. Read more…
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This 97-Year-Old Makes Amazing Art Exclusively With Microsoft Paint
When Google introduced the new tabbed interface for Gmail , it also brought along some new ads under the Promotions tab. Read more…
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Gmail Has New Ads That Look Like Emails, Here’s How to Turn Them Off
Man of Steel director Zack Snyder just came out and rocked our worlds at Comic-Con. Not just announcing that Batman will be in the Superman sequel — which he did with a cool-looking metallic Superman-Batman logo that drove the crowd nuts. But that was not the biggest deal. Read more…
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They’re doing a Superman/Batman movie… but that’s not the big news
We delete files all the time to free up space, or to get rid of pesky evidence, but the whole process is a lot more complicated than it seems from the outside. When you go to “delete” something, you’re just pressing the start button on a much more involved, much more random process. So what actually happens to that data? Read more…
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What Actually Happens to All Your Deleted Files?
Everybody loves Wi-Fi. Fast why fy, free wee fee, everywhere wireless. But what if we could actually see the Wi-Fi signals we use everyday? What if they covered the world in an electric smoggy haze? Would you still love it? Ah what the hell, probably hell yes. Read more…
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What the World Would Look Like If You Could Actually See Wi-Fi Signals
Did you know that Netflix is cropping the hell out of movies? I didn’t. But even if you had noticed, it’s unlikely you realize just how bad it gets. A semi-new Tumblr called What Netflix Does has pointed out the extent of the trimming. And it’s atrocious. Read more…
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You Won’t Believe How Much Netflix Crops Your Movies
Microsoft has released an Outlook app for iPhone and for iPad , called OWA (Office Web App). It makes the version of Outlook available with an Office 365 subscription (note: not the free Outlook.com service) and wraps it into a touch- and swipe-friendly iOS app. Office 365 is required. See more details on the Office blog . Read more…
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Microsoft has released an Outlook app for iPhone and for iPad, called OWA (Office Web App).