A Triple Screen Laptop, 4G LTE add-on for the Mecha Comet handheld, and Steam Frame: Liliputing News Roundup

A Triple Screen Laptop, 4G LTE add-on for the Mecha Comet handheld, and Steam Frame: Liliputing News Roundup

Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. The Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld computer that launched via a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year, and is now available for pre-order for $239 and up. The latest add-on is is an LTE upgrade kit that gives the device a cellular modem. … Read more

Pixelated 118: Googlebook begins

Pixelated 118: Googlebook begins

Welcome to Pixelated episode 118. This week, Damien and Abner share their hands-on impressions of Google’s new laptop lineup with Will. What’s it like to use an Android-powered laptop? How different is the Googlebook platform from ChromeOS? And what steps does Google need to take post-launch to give it as strong of a chance at … Read more

Nearly a Decade Later, the Electric Tesla Semi Is Here

Nearly a Decade Later, the Electric Tesla Semi Is Here

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value of market leader Nvidia—on that premise. But his Tesla team was in Sparks, Nevada, on Thursday to focus on, well, an electric vehicle: the long-awaited … Read more

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around … Read more

Yemen’s Ansar Allah Announces Another Wave of Attacks on Saudi Arabia Targeting Riyadh and Yanbu

Yemen’s Ansar Allah Announces Another Wave of Attacks on Saudi Arabia Targeting Riyadh and Yanbu

Ansar Allah also said that Saudi Arabia has launched over 1,000 airstrikes in Yemen since the escalation began Ansar Allah announced on Thursday that its forces launched another wave of missile and drone attacks targeting the Saudi capital of Riyadh and oil infrastructure in Yanbu on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast as the war continues … Read more