- newGoogle disconnects early Nest Thermostats from app
Google is ending support for first- and second-generation Nest Thermostats, meaning they will be unpaired and removed from Google's Nest and Home applications. They won't be bricked, just relegated to non-networked functionality. These models are nea…
- 12 hours ago 1 Nov 25, 12:39am -
- newNancy Mace in airport meltdown
Republican House Rep. Nancy Mace is well-known for peculiar behavior, and her latest effort meets the high standards set by "received a threatening message in her own handwriting" and "seriously injured by a handshake." Her latest performance: meltin…
- 13 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 11:46pm -
- newFinally, Aeropress has an XL flow control cap
AeroPresses make delicious coffee, but can require deft hand unless you're happy with a little premature drip through the filter. Hence the official flow control cap and third-party alternatives such as the Fellow Prismo. But there's a problem: they…
- 13 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 11:27pm -
- new3D-printed mini arcade stick
I went looking for the smallest good arcade stick, and I found TheTboxShop's $160 FS-Mini, a 3D-printed design intended for fighting games but surely good for all of them. It comes in thirty color options, with stick or all-button designs, and there…
- 14 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 10:53pm -
- newNew White House bathroom almost as nice as Saddam Hussein's and Nicolai Ceaușescu's
President Trump announced today that the refurbishment of the White House's Lincoln Bathroom is complete, and posted photos of the new interior to his website. "Highly polished, Statuary marble!" he wrote. Such finery is fit for great leaders and e…
- 14 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 10:41pm -
- newA $159 ASUS Chromebook that's part tablet, part overachiever
TL;DR: The 2024 ASUS Chromebook CM30 with Detachable Touchscreen is down to $159.99 ($329.99) with free shipping.Between your laptop that weighs too much for your liking and your phone that's too small for real work, there's the ASUS Chromebook C…
- 15 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 9:00pm -
- newTennessee man freed after month in jail for reposting Trump meme
A Tennessee man spent 37 days in jail for reposting a Facebook meme. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired police officer, was arrested in late September after sharing a meme referencing a school shooting while commenting on the murder of Charlie Kirk…
- 20 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 4:50pm -
- newJimmy Wales on why Wikipedia will outlast Elon Musk
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, is defending the platform against Elon Musk's cartoonishly vapid attacks. In a recent New York Times interview, Wales dismisses Musk's accusation that Wikipedia is "woke" by pointing to the site's actual mechanism…
- 20 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 4:24pm -
- newFar right loses ground in Dutch elections
Democrats 66 (D66), a liberal centrist party, has narrowly beaten Geert Wilders' right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands' general election. With all but a few thousand votes yet to be counted, D66 will receive 27 seats to PVV's 26—a s…
- 20 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 4:21pm -
- newAuthor Susie Bright's four favorite tools (and her new Substack)
Author, editor, activist, and podcaster Susie Bright is one of the smartest and funniest people I know. I think I first came across her work in The Whole Earth Review in the late 1980s. After that, we often participated in many of the same forums on…
- 20 hours ago 31 Oct 25, 4:00pm -
