Digital Curiosities

Valve accidentally leaked eight Steam Frame videos revealing a QR-code login so silly it almost looks fake

Valve's accidental video leak shows the Steam Frame VR headset's modular design, including an absurdly…

Unitree’s ‘Superman’ robot just ran faster than Usain Bolt — and the company built it in 12 weeks

A Chinese startup's humanoid robot hit 12.66 m/s—outpacing human sprinting records in just three months…

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Texas Instruments built a $160 calculator that can’t text, can’t browse, can’t do anything but math — and that’s exactly the point

Texas Instruments built the TI-84 Evo around a contrarian idea: a $160 device that refuses to do anything but one…

Your TV remote still fires 1980s infrared at your screen — and the reason Bluetooth never killed it is stranger than you’d think

Infrared remotes dominate four decades later. Why Bluetooth never replaced them reveals a hidden bootstrapping problem manufacturers can't solve.

Connecticut’s mosquito chief warns: Asian tiger species moving north faster than officials can track

Climate change is pushing disease-carrying mosquitoes into New England faster than fragmented monitoring programs can detect. Here's why that matters…