This Guy Took Pictures of Jupiter with a Game Boy Camera and an Old Telescope
Why bother paying $8 billion for a gigantic telescope when you can just rig a Game Boy Camera to an antique telescope and take pictures of celestial objects?

July 7, 2017 at 09:36PM
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‘Mario Maker’ Player Has Spent 1,500 Hours Trying to Beat His Own Level
“Super Mario Maker” for the Wii U lets you build your own Mario levels and upload them for others to play, with one catch: you have to prove you can beat it first. For Braden Moor, his “Trials of Death” level has become just that.

July 7, 2017 at 12:06PM
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NBA Jam Oral History
When Midway released ‘NBA Jam’, in April 1993, the game shattered arcade revenue records. Nearly a quarter century later, SI assembled the game’s makers and stars to recount how the phenomenon came to

July 7, 2017 at 11:08AM
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I Would Totally Read the Harry Potter Fan Fiction Written by a Neural Network
“I think my favorite thing the neural network did was generate a whole series that is basically ‘Severus Snape does some chores.'”

July 7, 2017 at 10:12AM
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Nest Founder: ‘I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?’
Tony Fadell, one of the minds behind the iPod and the iPhone, mulls design’s unintended consequences.

July 7, 2017 at 09:03AM
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Why iPhones Can’t Be Assembled Within The United States
Assembly is only 2% of an iPhone’s hardware cost — the real reason these devices are built in China is far more nuanced.

July 7, 2017 at 08:53AM
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This ‘Third Thumb’ Prosthetic Is Just Insane
It seems so unnecessary, and yet once you go “third,” you won’t be able to go back to just using two opposable thumbs.

July 7, 2017 at 06:55AM
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iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable to Report to Apple
For now, security researchers who have been invited by Apple to submit high-value bugs through the program prefer to keep the bugs for themselves.

July 6, 2017 at 02:49PM
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RED is making a $1,200 smartphone with a ‘holographic display’
A buzzword-filled press release for Hydrogen One says that the 5.7-inch display somehow uses nanotechnology to “seamlessly [switch] between traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content, and interactive games.”

July 6, 2017 at 12:36PM
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This Homemade Video Game Handheld Fits In The Palm Of Your Hand
The “Keymu” is a build-it-yourself console that can emulate games from the 8, 16 and 32-bit eras of Nintendo. It is very, very small.

July 6, 2017 at 10:55AM
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