Apr 22, 2026 from Hackaday DIY Smart Button Gets Surprisingly Complicated There’s a reason that the standards specifications for various wireless communications protocols are extremely long and detailed. [Made by Dennis] found this out first hand when he decided to build...
Apr 22, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus bundle launches on Prime Video US Prime Video subscribers in the US can now access a combined Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus bundle for $19.99 per month. The offer provides users with Apple Originals, Peacock’s live sports cover...
Apr 22, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google AI Studio now available with Pro and Ultra subscription plans Google AI Studio has been added to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscription plans, expanding access for current subscribers. Users now benefit from higher usage limits and can use both its latest model...
Apr 22, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net PlayStation to require age verification for communication & some in-game features in 2026 PlayStation will introduce mandatory age verification for players who want to continue accessing communication features, including chat and broadcasting, starting later in 2026. This policy means t...
Apr 22, 2026 from It's FOSS The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console The Playnix Console is a €1,179 Linux-powered gaming machine with an RX 9060 XT inside.
Apr 22, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with improved text rendering to rival Nano Banana 2 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new image generation model positioned to take on Google’s Gemini Nano Banana 2. The updated model puts particular focus on one of the most persistent weakn...
Apr 22, 2026 from Hackaday Wearable MIDI Controller Built With Raspberry Pi Most synths happily get by with keyboard or pad inputs and make lovely sounds in response. [Becky Clarke] and her fellow collaborators are building a synth that works rather differently. …read more
Apr 22, 2026 from Thejesh GN Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2026 – Results Thanks for your patience, everyone. It took a lot of work to process this year’s applications. There were lots of good applications. We are a micro-grant, but that said, this is the biggest year fo...
Apr 22, 2026 from Hackaday Itanium: the Great X86 Replacement that Never Was Itanium was once meant to be the next step in computing, to compete with the likes of IBM, Sun and DEC, but also for Intel to have an architecture that …read more
Apr 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Framework Designs Wireless TouchPad Keyboard I power my non-internet connected TV with a mini PC. To control the mini PC, I usually use a Logitech K400 keyboard. However, as Brad Linder if Liliputing aptly notes, the K400 “isn’t actually all ...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Game Pass gets cheaper as new Call of Duty titles will no longer be included on day one The recently appointed new CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Asha Sharma, has announced an immediate price cut for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, lowering the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99, nearly 25% off. P...
Apr 21, 2026 from Personal Log at usebox.net Playing White Box again I played a lot of tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) at the end of the 90s: a little of AD&D, lots of Middle-earth Role Playing and Rune Quest, some Vampire and Call of Cthulhu, and many others. ...
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday The Electromechanical Computer of the B-52’s Star Tracker In the ages before convenient global positioning satellites to query for one’s current location military aircraft required dedicated navigators in order to not get lost. This changed with increasin...
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday Analog Circuitry Lets You Blow This LED Out LED candles are neat, but they’re very suboptimal for wish-making: you can’t blow them out. Unless you take the circuit from [Andrea Console]’s latest project that lets you do just …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday 2026 Green Powered Challenge: A Low Power Distraction Free Writing Tool Distraction free writing tools are a reaction to the bells and whistles of the modern desktop computer, allowing the user to simply pick up the device and write. The etyper …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 21 April 2026 Stack Em, Pack Em, And Rack Em Edition Top Story Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after fifteen years of keeping the company in a very profitable holding pattern. (Tech Crunch) A visionary? N...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net WhatsApp to launch WhatsApp Plus subscription with new features and customization options WhatsApp is set to introduce a premium subscription plan called WhatsApp Plus, targeting users seeking more advanced personalization options without changing the standard app experience. While the ...
Apr 21, 2026 from Hackaday The Splice Must Flow There are plenty of electronic components out there, but the one we tend to forget is the most basic: wire. Sure, PC boards have largely replaced wire with copper traces, …read more
Apr 21, 2026 from Peter's Path Veluwe Wander Trail part 18 Hiked part 18/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.6 kilometres from Rheden to Rozendaal. From Rheden the trail climbs into the Veluwezoom National Park and crosses the rolling heath of the Posbank, w...
Apr 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Atlassian will start collecting Jira & Confluence user data to train AI by August 17, 2026 Atlassian has announced changes to its customer data usage, effective August 17, 2026, impacting users of products such as Confluence and Jira. These updates will introduce new controls over how me...
