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Retrocomputing is about more than nostalgic nerdery. It’s also a way to keep your tech in perspective.

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A heavy influence on why I write down so many notes, and with so much detail in them, is this idea that if you have to re-read a source t...

How will the stories we tell ourselves about who we are change when there’s a lifetime of photographic evidence?

Privacy advocates and venture capitalists want to circumvent the tech giants with apps using encrypted data stored on networks of computers.

The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.

In Mail on your Mac, manually or automatically change the colour of certain emails so they’re easier to spot.

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Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!

Elon Musk calls it a ‘win-win for both media orgs and the public.’ We’ll see.

Looking ahead to 2023, in addition to continuing to develop the educational arm of the charity, we aim to grow the collection further with a goal of rea...

I was recently asked about some software recommendations for a newly setup system to maintain the optimal state of the machine throughout its lifetime and po...

Hiding files on a Mac can be a simple and effective way to safeguard your information, and here are the step-by-step instructions to achieve that. The fas...

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat…

This page contains the list of technologies I use, both hardware & software. I have a single machine, Macbook Air M1, 2020 with specs as follows: ...

Too often, media tracking apps feel like work. There’s too much effort involved in adding and browsing items, which makes them feel more like task managers than an inviting place that helps you decide how you want to spend your precious free time. Apps in this category seem to take one of a couple of

[Update: after this post was published, Eric Heath of AncestryDNA emailed us with concerns about the post’s content, considering the recent update to the site’s terms of service. As Hea…

From boarding school dramas to bisexual disaster comedies, the gang’s all here.

Teaming up with Erkin Karamemet of Dinamo, the studio recalls the bare-bones aesthetics of the early internet for its new identity.

iPadOS 17 will reportedly include a handful of notable changes for iPad users. Rumors suggest the update will bring enhancements...

I’ve stayed on the sidelines of much of the LLM debate, but I’m willing to stake out my skepticism on this “world changing” technology. As I think back over the arch of my online life, I see these foundational models as the latest in a series of events where amazing technology was going to change the world. But each time individual value is diluted for corporate money grabs. Going way back in time, my first real formative experience on the internet was Geocities. When a friend showed me that I could write an HTML file and make it show up on the internet I was hooked. It was magic to me that I could make something the whole world could see. I quickly fell down the rabbit hole of how to make these sites.

How to create an iOS Scriptable widget that displays the bird visitors in your backyard.

Apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators.

Discord usernames are changing to remove four-digit discriminators. Display Names are being added so how you appear to other users stays the same. Read on for more info.

Ezarik, best known on the internet as iJustine, is a megastar tech YouTuber with over 7 million subscribers. (She also has another 1.8 and 1.6 million more on Twitter and Instagram, respectively.) A year ago, she made waves by sharing her experience battling thoracic outlet syndrome.