Sean Hollister

Senior Editor

Leak: Google will announce the Pixel Fold at I/O and beat Samsung on battery

Sean HollisterApr 18, 2023

Intel just killed its crypto chip after less than a year

Sean HollisterApr 18, 2023

Sean HollisterApr 14, 2023

“Smart guns” are back.

I won’t call any gun “smart” now that they’re the leading cause of death for children in a country ravaged by mass shootings, where a 5-year-old girl was just killed minutes away from my home. But I think it’s still worth pointing out someone’s finally selling a gun that is theoretically harder for kids to access.

Forgotten Weapons has a good overview of the mechanisms, which make tradeoffs between home defense and safety: There’s nothing to keep kids from pointing the face scanner at a parent, though the gun should lock when it’s set down.

Biofire: The First Worthwhile “Smart Gun”?

[Forgotten Weapons]

Sean HollisterApr 14, 2023

The ghost of LG Smartphone is about to peace out for good.

LG quit the smartphone business two years ago this month — only to turn around and promise three years of Android updates for its swan song handsets from 2020.

With Android 13 now rolling out to the LG Wing, the company’s final phone is getting its final update. I can’t think of a wilder phone to go out on. (BTW, here’s what happened to the Rollable.)

Yes, LG really is pushing Android 13 to the LG Wing - Liliputing

[Liliputing]

The perfect Lego Nintendo Game Boy doesn’t exist...

Sean HollisterApr 13, 2023

Maybe don’t buy a rando carbon monoxide detector off Amazon — and your water sensor backup battery’s gotta go.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission respectfully thinks you should immediately stop using your OKEAH carbon monoxide detectors from Amazon because they don’t actually detect anything and you could die. Seriously.

Also, your Moen Flo backup battery might catch fire. Send it back.

Recalls

[U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission]

Anker, Bambu, Prusa, Creality: 3D printers suddenly have a need for speed

Sean HollisterApr 13, 2023

Valve will magically free up space on your Steam Deck.

Did you know the Steam Deck downloads pre-cached shaders from Valve’s servers so games launch faster? It’s awesome — but they can take up a bunch of room on your SSD. Hear this: PCGamer confirmed with Valve (via Phoronix) that those caches are about to shrink by 60 percent.

It won’t shrink cutscenes and intro videos that Valve has to transcode for legal and technical reasons, though.

Valve is about to slash the file sizes of the Steam Deck's SSD-hogging shader caches in half

[pcgamer]