Rob Beschizza

Managing Editor at Boing Boing

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Wall Street guys are calling him President TACO-Trump Always Chickens Out

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Wall Street was turned upside-down by President Donald Trump's tariffs, but now we've been through a few rounds of him posting then withdrawing threats and trying to shake down foreign governments, things are settling down. They have a nickname for him, "Taco," to remind them where the puck always ends up. "Trump Always Chickens Out."Most credit Financial Times commentator Robert Armstrong for coining the term.
How Doom became the test app for every hacked gadget

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Mac Schwerin reports on the use of 1993's Doom to illustrate the computing power of random gadgets with screens, from alarm clocks to pregnancy tests: "The Monster-Slaying Game You Can Play Almost Anywhere."Doom's most entertaining developments happen in the shadow of the franchise, where fans resurrect the original game over and over again on progressively stranger pieces of hardware: a Mazda Miata, a NordicTrack treadmill, a French pharmacy sign.
The semicolon defended by its advocates

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

A study found that semicolons are in steep decline; I remain loyal. Its dectractors can be quite virulent. It is sometimes taken as a sign of affected elitism.
Commodore 64 gets true HDMI upgrade for modern TV sets

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

It's the "Oh" moment for nostalgic grown-ups excitedly revisiting the computers of their childhoods: how do I plug the damned thing into a modern TV? Though it's nothing an adapter box of some kind can't handle, Side Projects Lab went all the way and created a complete HDMI upgrade for the Commodore 64. The project was inspired by work by [Copper Dragon], who whipped up a nifty RGB output board.
Tiny classic Mac replica made with a Raspberry Pi Pico

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Behold Nick Gillard's pico-mac-nano, a tiny and functional replica of the original Apple Macintosh. Only 62mm tall, it's created with a Raspberry Pi Pico and a a 2-inch LCD panel. The final size was always going to be determined by the LCD panel which needed to be able to display the 512px x 342px screen buffer. I eventually settled on the smallest 640x480px LCD I could find at a sensible price which was a 2″ TFT panel . Unfortunately it transpired it was technically 480x640px i.e. portrait.
$300 smart toothbrush does all your teeth at once

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Kyle Barr reports that the $300 Feno smart toothbrush is "the worst thing I've ever shoved in my mouth." The gob-filling mouthpiece cleans every one of your chompers simultaneously. He says it works, but he didn't like the experience one bit: it "made my entire head shake like a marionette piloted by a mad puppeteer."It has technically saved me time. I would even go as far as to say it may do the job of a regular toothbrush with less time to get there.
Harvard revokes tenure for professor it says committed academic misconduct

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Francesca Gino is a professor at Harvard Business School whose career was derailed after evidence of data fraud was exposed in her work—a doubly-humiliating circumstance given that she teaches ethics there. The university released a damning report, she sued in response, and now Gina is losing tenure—the first to do so in 80 years.
Watch French president Emmanuel Macron's wife grab his face and shove him

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Footage of French president Emmanuel Macron being shoved by his wife as they prepare to disembark his jet of office went viral Monday morning. The shove does not look like a playful one. Speaking to reporters in Hanoi on Monday, Macron addressed the clip directly, pushing back against the speculation it sparked.
You'll ❤️ this 45-character split-flap display

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

Vestaboard Note is a smaller, 45-character version of the larger and more expensive original. But it does have something new: a heart in the standard character set. our company along with many others faced a new reality: rapidly rising tariffs on products made in Asia and new restrictions on critical supplies coming out of China. In a matter of weeks, the financial and operational assumptions behind the project collapsed.
Trump delays new Europe tariffs, days after announcing them

1 week ago | boingboing.net | Rob Beschizza

U.S. president Donald Trump is already slowing plans to hit imports from Europe with a 50% tariff, days after announcing them. EU president Ursula Von Leyden called for time, he says. "Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively," she wrote. "I received a call today from Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, requesting an extension on the June 1st deadline on the 50% Tariff with respect to Trade and the European Union," Trump wrote on Truth Social.