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This Game Boy Color is actually a portable Nintendo Wii and it’s so damn clean
Transforming classic video game consoles into on-the-go gadget gaming goodness is practically a time-honored tradition — I remember writing about Bacteria’s bulbous portable Nintendo 64 a decade ago. But @GingerOfMods new “Wii Boy Color” (via NintendoLife) is so clean, so compact, I just have to share it with you. OK,…
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The dual-display LG Wing gets a price in the latest leak LG Velvet
We’re intrigued by what we’ve seen of the LG Wing so far – an innovative-looking smartphone with a flip-out second display – and we’ve now got some more pricing details, courtesy of sources close to LG. As per XDA Developers, people with connections at LG say the phone will sell…
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Google reportedly took five days to decide not to remove misleading ads about voting by mail
Google took five days to review several ads with misleading information about voting by mail before opting to approve them, The Washington Post reported. The ads were created by Protect My Vote— a group the Post refers to as “shadowy”— and appeared to target people in several US states, including…
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A case of coronavirus reinfection shows the complexities of the pandemic
The scary thing finally happened: someone caught the coronavirus twice and got sicker the second time around. A 25-year-old man in Nevada got COVID-19 in March, got better in April, and got sick again in May. He had worse symptoms on the second bout, bad enough that he had to…
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I’m addicted to Instagram scams
I moved to LA mid-pandemic and furnished my apartment almost exclusively from Facebook Marketplace, a luxurious garden of budget goods that exploits all my weak points: deals, online shopping, haggling with strangers on the internet. One of the first things I bought was a table and four chairs that was…
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The Morning After: Elon Musk’s brain implant is working — in pigs
On Friday night Elon Musk made good on his promise to show a working Neuralink device. The company announced that it successfully installed its Link hardware in the brains of pigs, and in one case, removed the device without causing any obvious probl… Source
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