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I Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector
By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle lightbulb glowing yellow out of the vent. For the Soviet Union public, the once widely popular tech could not compete with VHS, but I was not interested in VHS. I preferred to hole up…
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How I Hacked My Tamagotchi, Cheated Death, and Became a God
I can’t explain why I adopted a virtual pet while also navigating the wild world of new parenthood, though maybe it has something to do with our species’ penchant for falling back on the familiar. The pandemic added to the chaos of life with a newborn, so I found myself drawn to anything nerdy and…
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Cricut Now Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Cutting Machines They Already Own
Over the weekend, people who own Cricut’s crafting machines — which are printer-like devices that can precisely slice up documents — learned of an upcoming update that will limit how often they can use the machines they’ve paid for. The company, whose cheapest machine is around $300, will now start charging users a monthly subscription…
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U.S. Feds Charge Protester With Torching Police Cars After Following Unnerving Online Trail
FBI agents used online evidence including an Etsy shop and profiles on LinkedIn and fashion website Poshmark to identify and charge a woman they say set fire to two police cars during recent protests in Philly, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.