RetroOct 28Nintendo's 1985 NES Test-Market Warehouse in Hackensack, New Jersey, Is Still Standing, and Three NES Historians Found It
AIOct 28OpenFilm Lets a Coding Agent Make Videos as Web Pages, Then Lets You Edit Every Frame by Hand
HardwareOct 28Oppo's Find X10 Phones Launched Worldwide, and Europe's Version Holds 850mAh Less Battery Than India's
RetroOct 28Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sega Saturn's Four-Disc RPG, Now Runs Natively on Windows PCs in Widescreen, Built From Your Own Discs
SoftwareOct 28Pharo 14 Brings Smalltalk-Style Live Coding to the Command Line and RISC-V, After 978 Pull Requests
RetroOct 28Mike Muuss Named Ping After the Sound Sonar Makes and Wrote It in One Night in December 1983
HardwareOct 28Apple's Mac Studio gets its 512GB memory option back, at $15,500 instead of the old $4,000
HardwareOct 28McDonald's China Put 4,000 Fry-Box Wireless Mice on Sale, Their Shells Partly Made From Old Happy Meal Toys
HardwareOct 28Motorola's Moto G47 Power Keeps the Headphone Jack and Grows to a 7,000mAh Battery, but Ships on Android 16
SoftwareOct 28Net-merge, a Free Open-Source App, Spreads Your Downloads Across Wi-Fi, Ethernet and a Phone Hotspot at Once
AIOct 28Indra, a one-million-parameter text-recognition model, reads scans 15 times faster than Tesseract on a CPU
HardwareOct 28Apple's iPad mini cost $499 in June; the new OLED model starts at $699 with the same 128GB
HardwareOct 28iQOO's Neo12 phone hides a 59-blade cooling fan and a 9,000mAh battery inside, from about $630
RetroOct 28John Tukey Suggested the Word "Bit" to Claude Shannon and Printed the Earliest Known "Software" in 1958
HardwareOct 28Logitech's Pebble Up travel mouse has a shell you lift into a 35-degree tilt for your wrist
HardwareOct 28Google's $180 Fitbit Edge Is Its First Tracker With a Battery You Can Swap, and It Drops Tap-to-Pay
SoftwareOct 28Google Says AI Overviews Can't Be Turned Off, but Adding udm=14 to the Search URL Skips Them Every Time
RetroOct 28Grep Is Named After the Ed Editor Command g/re/p, and Ken Thompson Built It in About an Hour
HardwareOct 28Honor's Cheaper Win RT2 and Win Turbo2 Carry a Bigger 12,070mAh Battery Than Its Flagship Win2
HardwareOct 28Honor's Win2 Gaming Phone Puts Two Fans Inside, One Spinning at 31,000rpm, and Is Still Rated IP69K
HardwareOct 28Huawei's Pura 90 Plus puts a 1-inch camera sensor with an f/1.6 to f/4.0 adjustable aperture in a CNY 5,499 phone
HardwareOct 28Amazon's New $99.99 Echo Dot Adds a Smart Home Hub and Costs Twice What a Dot Listed for Before August
HardwareOct 28Apple's First Touchscreen Mac Is a $2,899 OLED MacBook Pro That Turns Taps Into Clicks for Apps Never Built for Touch