Sean Hollister

On July 7th, SleepyCow’s bike finally hit 10,000 supporters on Lego Ideas, which means Lego’s gotta decide whether to produce it. While most Ideas are based on existing IP, we do get some mechanical gems like the Typewriter or working Fresnel lighthouse.

AMD’s Q2 2023 earnings shows the company’s doing worse in PCs than industry slump would suggest — while Intel’s PC chips were down 12 percent, AMD’s client CPUs are down 54 percent. But AMD says its new Ryzen 7000 CPUs are actually up 35 percent sequentially — a glut of older chips is likely to blame.

Bobbie’s power armor, Miller’s suit (and hat!), Amos’ coveralls and shotgun, Holden’s MCRN armor, full flight suits for Drummer and Naomi, Avasarala’s final dress (and scorpion stilettos!), Peaches’ engineering outfit, Julie’s necklace, Alex’s medical cuff, and an entire Roci flight chair... these are just the featured lots in an online auction starting August 8th.

People have been DIYing this for years, but it looks like Amazon just started stocking bespoke tool battery adapters in 2022! Friend of mine says his Dyson V6 one works great and — importantly — has low voltage cutoff when installed. (DeWalt famously puts protection in the tool, not the battery.)

At around 10AM PT, Getty Images’ Justin Sullivan captured this photo showing the blue bird had gone. You could still make out an outline — but by 12:20PM PT, workers had all but cleaned that up. The far side of the Twitter sign is equally bare, according to this video.

Fresh off inventing the railjet, r/HyruleEngineering has now discovered “stake nudging” — a new technique that lets you create invisible connections between objects.

That’s all we know, save it may use the same AMD Phoenix chips as Asus’ ROG Ally. The report speculates it’ll be a Windows handheld because it has a Ryzen chip, but that doesn’t follow — the Linux-based Steam Deck shipped with Ryzen guts.