This run-down of five different designs for portable Wiis (as in, literal Wii circuit boards trimmed to fit in tiny packages) shows just how far the hobbyist world of classic console miniaturization has come.
The Amazon-owned upscale grocer is launching Whole Foods Market Daily Shop stores.
The Seattle Times reports that, like at the larger stores, customers can pay using a palm print and associate it with their payment method through Amazon One, the biometric payments system Amazon debuted in 2020 that can be used to buy things or even verify you’re old enough to buy beer.
[The Seattle Times]
National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was arrested last year after leaking classified US government documents in a small Discord server, has entered into a plea agreement with the Massachusetts District Attorney.
Teixeira would plead guilty in exchange for no charges under the Espionage Act. In exchange, he agrees to face between 132 months (11 years) and 200 months (16 years and 8 months) in prison, along with fines and 3 years of supervised release.
Deadline reports that film and TV labor unions are ready to strike if talks break down with Hollywood studios tomorrow. Studios previously narrowly averted a strike with one of the unions, the Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), in 2021.
Now, the IATSE is preparing to bargain for health and pension benefits with two other unions for “the first time since 1988,” according to the Teamsters.
The developers at Morphcat Games think so. They said as much in an interview published by NintendoLife yesterday while discussing their efforts developing tightly-constrained 8-bit games like the subject of their once-viral Micro Mages making-of video.
Watch the trailer for their three-game compilation cartridge, Triple Jump, to get a handle on their impressive work.
I haven’t kept up with this scene as much as I used to. Who is your favorite modern-day NES developer?
NASA’s Crew-8 mission, comprised of US astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, is set to fly to the International Space Station, where they’ll serve a six month stint as flight engineers.
Weather halted yesterday’s planned takeoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA writes on Crew-8’s mission blog that after launch, video coverage will stop until about 1AM ET on March 5th.
As a nerd kid, this was one of my favorite newspaper comic strips. But I haven’t looked at the funny pages in many years, and had assumed this one had long since expired.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw a Foxtrot strip referencing Apple’s recently-launched Vision Pro.
New CAD renders at 91mobiles purport to show what Apple’s next budget iPhone will look like.
The next iPhone SE could represent the first major shift in design since 2020. It’s expected to pick up where the iPhone 14 left off — complete with a notch — likely adding USB-C and maybe even an OLED display.
