Inventor created a "real-life home screen" for physical game discs
Nothing beats the feeling of owning physical games, but a digital library on a home screen has its own perks. Being able to instantly flick through box art and pick a title with a controller...
RAM prices have rolled back to 2007 levels – AI destroyed 20 years of progress in a matter of months
Software performance expert, scientist, and GitHub developer Daniel Lemire compared historical computer memory prices and showed that decades of falling prices were undone in just a matter of months because of the massive demand for...
Programmer created a GIF image that prints its exact copy using the Piet Quine technique
Champion coder Yusuke Endoh continues to show off esoteric programming skills on social media. Their latest creation is called a Piet Quine, a GIF image that prints itself. In other words, the GIF is both...
Korean probe Danuri took the first images of the Falcon 9 stage impact site on the Moon
Earlier this week, it emerged that the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had crashed into the surface of the moon. The collision wasn't considered massive, but the four-ton stage reportedly slammed into...
Super El Niño could raise sea levels off the coast of California to record highs
As the peak of El Niño draws closer, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about its potential impacts. According to several experts, California may be in for a particularly difficult winter. During a virtual town hall...
Gamers tried to figure out why electricity doesn't work if you plug a plug in between two outlets
A regular power strip works in such a basic way that it seems impossible to break its logic. Under the plastic casing hide two long metal bars: one connects all the live contacts, the other...
Unity reported its best quarter in history thanks to the success of the Vector AI platform
Unity called its latest financial results the best in its history as a public company. CEO Matt Bromberg credited the growth in overall revenue and Grow Solutions revenue to the ongoing success of the Unity...
Claude Opus 5 deleted the entire developer profile during a backup and replied "Sorry, typo"
A developer using Claude Code shared a serious mistake their AI tool made, one that ended up wiping an entire drive. According to Ecstatic-Big5126, they had asked Opus 5 to back up their system. While...
Gamer built a modern PC in an old-school case with a Turbo button and digital display
There was a time when computer power got measured not by benchmarks, but by the size of blinking red digits on the case. Toggle switches, seven-segment displays, heavy metal buttons labeled Turbo, and the obligatory...
PC owner gathered cables into one bundle using several dozen zip ties and got a spine inside the case
Two shots of the back panel of an ASUS ROG case show cable management taken to its absolute limit. The first photo shows the starting point – cables are already bundled, but the harnesses still...
13-year-old schoolboy built a device that extracts water from air for farms in arid regions
Roy Kim, a student at Whitford Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon, made it into the top ten finalists of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge with a device that pulls moisture from the air and turns...
Did you know that the first ethernet cable was bright yellow so that no one would accidentally drill into a power cable
If you think the color of ethernet cables comes down to convenience or marketing, the history of the standard tells a different story. The original spec, drawn up in the 1970s, called for cables in...
Enthusiast hacked a laptop's BIOS using Claude Code and unlocked 55 hidden settings
Laptops with locked BIOS sometimes sell for low prices because of the restrictions that this kind of firmware protection creates. A user of the Claude AI shared the process that let them successfully unlock an...
Developer built an app for cursed photos using a 2007 algorithm and attracted millions of views
A developer going by measure_plan showed off a content-aware scaling tool built, in his own words, for "cursed photo editing." A post featuring warped portraits spread across social media, and beta access requests flooded in...
18-year-old guy bought 20 DDR5 modules for $1600 to resell in 15 years
An eighteen-year-old buyer purchased twenty Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 sticks for a total of $1,600 and stashed them in a drawer. The plan spans ten to fifteen years, after which he expects to sell the...
Gamers have already come to terms with the fact that RAM will be in perpetual shortage due to AI corporations
Hoping a burst bubble will bring things back to normal rarely pans out. That's exactly how the situation with memory and storage looks right now, and any hope that RAM and SSD prices will return...
Chinese scientists have created a night vision device with full-color imaging instead of green
Researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology have built a prototype that turns infrared light into full-color images. This approach to night vision goes beyond the usual monochrome displays. The system relies on mercury telluride quantum...
SpaceXAI agreed to dismantle 69 illegal gas turbines from one of its data centers, but it will take a whole year to do so
SpaceX has promised to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines powering the SpaceXAI data centers near Memphis, Tennessee, by July 2027. TechCrunch first spotted the company statement. The 69 turbines sparked a lawsuit from the NAACP,...
China launched a 582-ton magnet for a nuclear fusion reactor "artificial Sun"
The Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a video showing the world's largest superconducting magnet for fusion reactors. The toroidal field coil completed full-parameter testing a month ago, and the...
Photoshop's Rotate Object feature turns a photo of your hand into a 3D drawing reference
Adobe employee Daichi Ito shared a practical use case for a new Photoshop feature that lets you rotate 2D objects in three-dimensional space. According to him, artists who draw characters often need to understand how...
