"Life has gotten too darned complicated," declared Russell E. Oakes in the January 1956 issue of Celebrity magazine. "Our scientists and inventors are just great at investigating the sex life…
The Googlebook is Google's forthcoming new range of laptops, with premium hardware and Android features not offered by its low-end Chromebooks. But the main pitch is all the AI stuff…
IBM's Selectric Composer was a special edition of the famed business-class typewriter that used proportional type instead of fixed-width characters, allowing the typist to create beautifully typeset documents that appeared…
The Griffin Powermate nailed it: a simple, just-works USB rotary knob perfect for scrolling, zooming documents and playing Arkanoid. And it looked great, too, with brushed-metal bodywork and a glowing…
ReMarkable's progress has been quite, well, remarkable. Despite being in the shadow of Amazon's Kindle ecosystem, it (and Kobo, Boox, Supernote…) have put out nicer and more useful e-ink devices…
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Spotted on the Springfield, Missouri Facebook Marketplace, this unusual vintage Dell laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor, 2GB of RAM, and 120GB hard drive, and Windows XP. Justifying…
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A new developer program for LightOS allows anyone to create tools for the Light Phone, whether that’s a local public transit app for your city or a way to read ebooks.
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So I told everyone that night At Chapel Bar, where a boy spoke Of trying to suffocate himself With a bag that had once held Snacks, but the second he smelled Sour cream and chive, he knew He had to stay. “I thought you Would laugh at that,” and I did.
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