Big companies spend small fortunes on making sure their computers stay running and that they can be repaired quickly in an emergency. You wouldn’t expect an emergency repair on an Amiga 2000, though. [RETR-O-MAT] bought an Amiga 2000 that did boot, but was known to have a leaky battery on the motherboard. He wanted to…

Kevin is testing out the new HP Chromebook and a BlackBerry KEY2 while we both are just getting started with the iOS 12 public beta. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Your top iPhone headlines this week. …read more Source:: CNet

CNET reported this week that a musician, who plays guitar and has lots of viewers on YouTube, received an unusual email from the company alleging that he had copied a tune he wrote himself two years ago. From the report: But last month, Paul Davids says he got a rather unusual email from YouTube. The…

[Calango] is a railway technician, and for a school final project created the Rail Wear Surveillance Trolley (RWST) which is a delightfully designed device made mainly from PVC conduit with one job: travel down a segment of train track while shining a green laser onto the rail, and capture camera images. The trolley holds both…

One of the hottest PC games in the world — “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,” a violent game in which 100 players fight to the death — hasn’t been approved for sale by China’s strict regulators. Yet the game is a bonafide hit in China, where more than a third of its active players reside [Editor’s note: the…

Location data revealed the home addresses of intelligence officers — even when their profiles were set to private. …read more Source:: ZDNet

With the removal of the standard 3.5mm headphone jack from phones, wireless headsets are required to enjoy your media content. A new accessory is designed to help keep those headphones charged at all times. …read more Source:: ZDNet

As rumors emerge that Apple will soon release cheaper, brightly colored iPhones, you might wonder why. This could be why. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“Following a number of requests from citizens, from the European Parliament, and from certain EU Member States, the Commission has decided to investigate the functioning of the current EU summertime arrangements and to assess whether or not they should be changed.” The EU has launched an official “online consultation” seeking input from the public. Long-time…