Nick Alvarez, the electrical engineer and maker who posts as NickBuilds and Nickbuildstuff, decided a regular Game Boy Color was too small for what he had in mind. He built one that stands ten feet tall and still accepts button presses, volume twists, and game input the way the 1998 original did. Alvarez didn’t actually […]
Israel announced on Monday it had recovered the wreckage of the Altalena, an arms-smuggling boat whose sinking by the Israeli military just after the state’s founding in 1948 exposed divisions that persist today. The Altalena had set sail from France loaded with weapons packed for the Irgun, the militant Zionist force that conducted attacks against […]
Boston Dynamics just gave its yellow four-legged Spot robot a new assignment that still stumps most machines. Spot now hauls packages from a delivery van and sets them carefully on doorsteps, closing the short but costly stretch that carriers call the porch gap. Spot emerges from the back of a delivery van. A driver places […]