Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. — Read the rest
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Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto]
"Our aim is to create one of the most comprehensive film camera archives available, while keeping it freely accessible to photographers, collectors, researchers and anyone interested in analogue photography.
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British singer Olivia Dean's song I've Seen It lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit Just The Two Of Us, according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features … so striking" that it cannot be a coincidence, claim lawyers for Mattie Music Group, which manages Withers' catalog. — Read the rest
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A social media ad for "nutritionally complete" meal replacement shakes was banned by the UK's advertising watchdog over a suggestion the shakes can replace conventional food. Huel's ad, which ran on Instagram and YouTube, showed celebrity entrepreneur Spencer Matthews talking to Huel Founder Julian Hearn about a race-winning athlete who "only eats Huel." — Read the rest
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Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions.
Making fractal wallpapers: rendering escape-time fractals, finding beautiful views, and teaching models to judge them
There are Mandelbrots, Multibrots, Julias, and Phoenixes to explore and zoom around, 13 rendering modes, and hundreds of color schemes organized by hue and various pallette cycling knobs and dials on top. — Read the rest
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Christopher Paul is running unopposed to become the chief of police in Elizabeth, Louisiana, a village of 417 people. Paul, however, was recently charged with raping two 13-year-old girls twenty years ago, creating a dilemma for locals who might not want someone suspected of serious crimes to be their only full-time police officer. — Read the rest
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Kenjiro Tsuda, an actor famed in Japan for his lustrous baritone, sued TikTok over an account that used an AI-generated replica of his voice in more than 180 videos. Tokyo District Court ruled this week that a persons' voice can be protected under Japan's publicity rights law. — Read the rest
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Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike the bloblike original in style. — Read the rest
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Executives from Samsung and Micron, two of the world's top sellers of random access memory, warned this week that the RAM shortage would continue through 2028. AI companies take it all for their datacenters, and what's left for everyone else will continue to command premium prices. — Read the rest
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Florida recently ordered law enforcement agencies to remove Flock cameras installed on the state's roads: the intrusive technology and regular misuse by police officers has led to a national backlash against the company and surveillance cameras in general. Most are already gone, but there's a problem: there are Flock cameras in St. — Read the rest
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Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. — Read the rest
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AI detection is a difficult job, made worse for everyone by it being such a delicious ingredient in academic snake oil. But one service has clearly outperformed the others in tests: Pangram. It went beyond obvious characteristics of LLM output such as perplexity and ngram distance, training its own classifiers on large collections of human text and generative imitations. — Read the rest
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In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s. Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal. When Will Intelligent Machines Take Over?
The segment features Sir Clive Sinclair, icon of early home computing, who plainly claims that the endgame of computing technology is AI. — Read the rest
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Following his meeting with top AI executives yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that artificial intelligence will henceforth be known as "super intelligence." The order, which applies to federal government, follows a call he made last week during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. — Read the rest
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France's Académie Goncourt has withdrawn Canadian-Haitian author Thélyson Orélien's novel C'était ça ou mourir (It Was That or Die) from consideration for its top literary prize. The book shows signs of being written by AI, reports The Guardian.
A lyrical first-person account of how a history and geography teacher flees a home country mired in gang violence… Published in France by Grasset in August, it has sold about 35,000 copies and won the Prix du roman Fnac, with translation rights sold to more than 20 countries.
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Newly-installed traffic lights at a busy corner in Stretford, England, keep failing and leaving motorists fightened and confused. Part of a £17.6m (about $24m) redevelopment of the town center, the new lights have gone out three times, reports the Manchester Evening News, a pattern one local councillor described as "very odd." — Read the rest
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A school principal is on leave after voicemail caught her making ill-considered remarks about the parents of a 5-year-old girl who reported that she was inappropriately touched by a classmate. The parents of the girl, attending Grand Oaks Elementary school in Harris County, Texas, called to report the incident on September 25. — Read the rest
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Freckle is a small, square smartphone aimed at youngsters aged 7-13, designed to give them "independence" without providing features that encourage prolonged or repetetive use.
The $199 device has a 3.1", 720 × 720 touchscreen and runs a proprietary operating system, ClayOS, with no app store, web browser or social media apps—and definitely no YouTube. — Read the rest
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Back in the day, when writing on the Internet was new and cool, I wanted a keyboard that had specialized keys for useful tasks such as multiple copy/paste, blockquote wrapping, and the all-important Curators' Code symbols. In essence, a Bloomberg Terminal for blogging. — Read the rest
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An AI-generated image of a crocodile, depicted lurking in a reservoir popular with joggers and boaters, may land its creator in jail.
Ye Lin, 30, from Burma, was charged in Singapore with transmitting a false message after allegedly using Google's Gemini service to create the image, depicting a saltwater crocodile at Pandan Reservoir. — Read the rest
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