I have a broken mouse. The scroll-wheel doesn't scroll, though it does at least middle-click. It's not broken enough to be inoperable, but it's too broken to use without being annoying, and I expected to throw it away as soon as I could replace it. &#8... ...

Classic computer mags Maximum PC and Mac Life are going out of print. Harry McCracken, writing now for Technologizer–a website–heralds the End of the Computer Magazine Era. But I'm not writing this article because the dead-tree version... ...

Christopher Mims poses that the reason that Apple remains top of the pile in the U.S. phone business is the used-carification of the market. "It's not just lavish marketing and the threat of green bubbles," he writes. "Apple's commitment to supporting ... ...

DPReview is one of the best camera sites on the net, with years of reviews and user comments and a vast database of technical information and photography. Amazon bought it in the 2000s, forgot why, and finally announced it was to close in its latest ro... ...

Today apple announced a new MacBook Air (faster, cheaper) and an upgraded iPad Pro with LiDAR, "studio-quality" microphones and the full array of ultrawide and telephoto lenses as sported on recent top-of-the-line iPhones. But the thing that sells it to me is the new keyboard, which includes a trackpad (at last!) and fancy ...

A tiny, bargain-priced drone that delivers cinematic HD footage? Full speed ahead, backers! But alas, there's a problem: coronavirus. The BBC reports on backers who pledged nearly $2m and are about to experience disappointment.

Ash Hall, who reviews drones, published a damning video opinion piece on YouTube. He was fiercely critical not just of ...

Justine Haupt made this handsome and completely functional rotary cellphone. Her design is open-source and you can even buy a case kit from her company, Sky's Edge Robotics. You have to find and carefully modify your own rotary dial, though -- they're apparently no longer made -- as well as a few ...

Samsung claims to have developed an "Ultra Thin Glass" for its new Galaxy Z Flip foldable smartphone, signalling scratch resistance and durability beyond that of similar products. But tests conducted by Zack Nelson using a Mohs Hardness Testkit [Amazon] -- a set of styluses made of different materials -- show that it is no ...

Would you just look at the $295 Seletti Banana Lamp [Bergdorf Goodman]. Read the rest

A commercial database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones is being used by immigration and border authorities to round up undesirable immigrants for detention and deportation.

The Wall Street Journal [paywall] published a special report on Friday about how federal agencies under impeached president Donald Trump are exploiting cellphone location data to track ...