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Can my favorite Game Boy gadget tell fake cartridges from real?
The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges and saves to a PC, it can now plug into your phone with a brand-new Retrace app for Android and iOS. The idea: check if cartridges are legit, […]
SXSW rebounds as a top networking, ideas festival for founders and VCs
SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
In the coming years, HBO wants its new Harry Potter series to become “the streaming event of the decade” as it adapts each of the franchise’s seven original books. The show could very well become a hit that captures the imaginations of a new generation of fans who weren’t there for the first wave of […]
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is a great time to get a fancy, AI-powered bird feeder
Bird feeders have come a long way since their inception in the early 1900s. These days, it’s not all that surprising to see feeders kitted out with cameras and solar roofs, two marquee features you’ll find on feeders from both BirdBuddy and Netvue. And while modern hoppers can command a pretty penny, Amazon’s Big Spring […]
The Macintosh changed computers forever
Apple’s most legendary computer has two legacies: there’s the computer itself, and there’s the commercial. That commercial. Only a couple of days before Steve Jobs debuted the computer that would both help cement his legacy and contribute to his unceremonious exile from Apple, the company dropped a Super Bowl ad that is still one of […]
Apple’s long, bitter App Store antitrust war
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the legal travails of Big Tech, follow Adi Robertson. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The year was 1998, and reigning personal computer […]
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE
While the relationship was once thorny enough that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things seem to have warmed up by the early days of the second Trump administration.
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.