This Young Founder Wants Your Old Laptop To Have A New Life

A new startup is looking for ways to extend the life of old laptops. The hope is to create less e-waster and save money.
Hackaday

Hackaday Europe 2026 – Building A Retro PC From Scratch

If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or ...
Hackaday

HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop Onto 1.44 MB Floppy

It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he ...
PCMag on MSN

I Tested 'Wildcat Lake,' Intel's New CPUs for Budget Laptops. Here's the Early Verdict

Intel says its new Wildcat Lake Core 3 Series chip family is built for affordable laptops. My first wave of tests shows ...
PCMag on MSN

Wait! Instead of throwing away that old PC, try one of these 20 fun projects

Do you have an ancient laptop or desktop just lying around? Transform that aging PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...
CNX Software

PaperBoy Game Boy Emulator works at 60 FPS on ESP32-S3 E Ink devkit

FPS gaming on an E Ink display? That doesn't seem right... But that's exactly what Wenting Zhang's PaperBoy Game Boy emulator ...
CNET

Chrome Has Been Secretly Downloading AI to Your Computer. Here's What You Can Do

Chrome has been automatically downloading Gemini Nano (a 4GB AI model) to users' computers without notification or an easy way to prevent it. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping ...