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Roku is offering up to 90% off streaming subscriptions, but you only have until Sunday

2026-05-21 12:12:36

You know, there's always a big rush from retail companies to meet the demands of popular retail days like Black Friday. But what if a company just made up a day and then began celebrating it with deals? I mean, nothing's stopping a business from announcing that today's a special kind of day and then offering discounts because of it.

Someone built a fully motorized Lego WALL-E controlled by a PS4 controller, complete with a built-in taser

2026-05-21 10:46:38

One of the coolest things people who build stuff can do is bring something from fiction into reality. We've seen plenty of Pip-Boys and even a fully 3D-printed wearable suit of Doomguy's armor that used in-game assets for extra accuracy. One recurring trend is when people remake robots from movies and books, because tinkering and robotics often go hand-in-hand.

AMD just dropped a compact AI workstation that makes discrete GPUs look outdated for running LLMs

2026-05-21 08:03:11

AMD has announced the availability of the Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, powered by AI Max 300-series processors. This range of mini PCs isn't going to win awards for gaming prowess, nor are they designed as low-cost options for attaching behind workstation monitors.

Your Pixel comes with these 4 fantastic apps, and they deserve a spot on your home screen

2026-05-21 07:46:23

Phones these days come with a wide range of apps installed out of the box, ranging from the essentials to the bloatware we all want to remove. But somewhere in the middle are genuinely useful apps that you might not immediately realize you need until you start using them. These apps have rightfully earned a place on my home screen, and you should check them out, too.

Your Kindle doesn't need to be hacked to escape Amazon's walled garden

2026-05-21 07:00:22

When you buy a Kindle, you only focus on reading books on it, like most folks. Only after owning one do people look for tutorials and guides to remove the niggles. Several tutorials, forum threads, and video comments are packed with people seeking guidance on jailbreaking the Kindle.

I quit using Adobe Firefly for a free open-source alternative

2026-05-21 06:00:21

The controversies around image and video generation are hard to ignore; whether training data was scraped without consent, or artists are getting compensated, or whether the outputs are doing something genuinely new or just laundering someone else's style. Adobe Firefly was the one that felt the least icky since it's trained on licensed Adobe Stock content and public domain stuff, but it's still paywalled past the free tier credits. On the other end of it, there's ChatGPT, which had its whole Studio Ghibli moment last year that I'd rather not get into here.