The Cherry era of keyboards might be at an end as the company pulls the plug on German manufacturing after a $23 million loss

Budget Printing Strategies

Get more bang for your printing buck Decades ago, the promise was made of the “paperless office.” In retrospect, we can see how unrealistic that plan was. Whether to hand in a school paper, save a tax return, or sign a legal document, the antiquated technology of printing is firmly entrenched for the foreseeable future,…

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The world’s fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea-sized brain can’t comprehend

All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…

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“Flex Is In Spec, Buckling Is Not” – Commodore Addresses Quality Control Concerns With Its C64 Ultimate

“Here’s more transparency around our transparent PCB”. The recently resurrected Commodore International just launched the C64 Ultimate, an FPGA-powered upgrade on the 1982 home computer that turns millions into hardcore gamers. The new system has gone down a hit with fans – myself included – thanks to its authentic design, compatibility with original software and…

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Helldivers 2 has a tank now

Some might be too terrified to type these words where the Super Earth censors can see, but I’ll say it: I’m starting to worry that we’re trusting the Helldivers with too much terrifying firepower. Fortunately for the cape-wearing commandos gleefully detonating ordnance across the galaxy, my input has no bearing on the matter, and today…

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