There’s a Happy Mutant reality hacker on the loose in Berkeley, California… affixing “mysterious medallions” on the city’s sidewalks. Berkeleyside reports: There is a person out there with a sly sense of humor, a way with words, a working knowledge of Berkeley history and a desire to impart pithy observations.…

Building a keyboard isn’t a big project these days. Controller chips and boards are readily available, switches are easy to find, and a 3D printer can do a lot of what used to be the hard parts. But engineers at Purdue have printed a self-powered Bluetooth keyboard on an ordinary…

Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has introduced federal legislation to create a national program under which children would receive a $1,000 present at birth, plus annual contributions of up to $2,000 a year based on family income. We have previously endorsed Mr. Bookers plan, which deals in numbers large…

Enlarge/ Be still our hearts with this 8-bit cover art. 0 with 0 posters participating Today, legendary game developer Sid Meier’s first memoir arrives at bookstores and digital platforms, complete with the appropriately goofy name, Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games. It’s everything you might expect from the brain responsible…

President Donald Trump, Americas most prominent white supremacist, has celebrated the so-called Trump boat parades that have popped up across the country, a frightening symbol of 21st century fascism and the people who are normalizing it. But just like everything else tinged with politics in 2020, theres a lot of…

DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 09: Kurt Busch, driver of the #1 Monster Energy Chevrolet, stands … [+] on the grid during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series 62nd Annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 09, 2020 in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)…

The wind lifted him up and slammed him down. Hail bounced off his rain fly, and lightning lit up the treetops under a dark sky. John Middendorf was riding the storm like a captain at sea. Except Middendorf was in his portaledgea hanging cot of his design100 feet off the…

One of the best Jumpman sneakers of all-time is the Air Jordan 6. Of course, this is the sneaker Michael Jordan won his first-ever NBA title in. For this reason, the Air Jordan 6 “Infrared” has quickly become one of the most popular colorways in Jordan Brand history, and whenever…

One of Marvel’s concept designers just revealed a slick Iron Man variant armor from Avengers: Age of Ultron. Phil Saunders gave fans a sneak peek at an early version of the Mark 45 armor from the film on Instagram. The overall effect is a more organic looking design, and oddly…

Try to remember the first time you heard about this fascinating language called Elixir. Chances are, you had by the time been developing software using Ruby. If that’s the case, Elixir seems to have appeared out of nowhere until suddenly, it became the solution for all your previous problems. It…