hardware
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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A magazine about questioning technological progress, served from a tiny computer on a balcony in Barcelona that occasionally disappears from the internet because the sun stopped cooperating.
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Atmosphere-breathing propulsion would let a low satellite use the air dragging it down as propellant, so flying closer to Earth can stay practical.
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Apple arrived late to foldables, but the Duo's hinge, under-display camera, dual displays, and Pencil support are the details that make it feel new.
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Apple Watch Series 12 Audio Intelligence listens inside a Secure Exclave. The architecture is not conventional recording, but Siri Recap still raises hard social questions.
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Ken Shirriff's teardown of a 1980 Spacelab core-memory module makes 128 KB of RAM feel extraordinary again—each bit a ferrite ring you can point at.
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LG monitors can trigger Windows to install manufacturer software that later advertised McAfee—exposing a trust boundary between hardware identity and automatic app distribution.
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AppleInsider's homeOS overview reads less like a wall iPad and more like a room-scale operating system: proximity UI, face-aware profiles, and a growing home-hardware family—with Siri readiness as the delay.
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Motorola is changing future flagships so GrapheneOS can officially support them—memory tagging, verified boot, and Snapdragon work with Qualcomm instead of remaining Pixel-only.
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A leaked Apple demo of camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence raises two products at once: inconspicuous computer-vision sensors, and a potentially powerful assistive wearable—if the privacy model is designed before the hardware ships.
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GrapheneOS explains locked-device protections and flags a 2027 Motorola partnership—arguing hardware designed for its security bar could make hardened phones reachable without buying a Pixel to escape Google’s software.
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Instagram will remove Meta smart-glasses videos used to harass, exploit, or secretly record people for prank and “pickup” content—an admission that one of the most visible uses of Meta’s hardware has become filming unsuspecting people for viral attention.
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MetalNES by Ian Addisson is a transistor-level simulation of NES-001 hardware—arguing that rebuilding the console from its electronic components preserves understanding of how the original machine worked, not only the games it ran.