In a nutshell: Analogue's Nintendo 64 clone revitalized the N64 community when it launched last November, but pricing was high and availability was extremely limited. Those looking for a slightly cheaper alternative now have another option with the recent launch of the M64 from ModRetro.

Co-founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, ModRetro started life as an online forum for discussing retro games but eventually evolved into a

Rumor mill: Google's Pixel 11 is coming into focus thanks to two separate leaks. One is an official teaser video released by Google itself, while the other is a Bluesky post from WinFuture's Roland Quandt detailing the phone's storage options, battery capacity, and pricing.

The Google video is the more visual of the two. It offers a close look at the Pixel 11 Pro's

Forward-looking: While the health-monitoring abilities of wearables have advanced enormously in recent years, there's one thing that still eludes these devices: measuring glucose levels, aka blood sugar. But researchers believe they have created a ring that does just that by analyzing a wearer's sweat. And it can also measure alcohol levels, uric acid, and more.

For the millions of people with type 1 diabetes

Forward-looking: Samsung Electronics is locking in long-term chip orders as AI-driven demand continues to exceed available production, and the company expects those constraints to persist for years. Shortages are likely to deepen in 2027 and carry into 2028, Jaejune Kim, executive vice president of Samsung's memory business, told analysts. To manage that imbalance, Samsung has signed long-term

What just happened? Keychron is further expanding its commitment to the open-source community by building new firmware for gaming mice. The company hopes that the ZGM project will enjoy the same popularity as other FOSS firmware initiatives designed for keyboards.

Keychron has just introduced its blueprint for developing open-source mouse firmware. The Zephyr Gaming Mouse (ZGM) project is going to do to mice what QMK or ZMK did for keyboards,

Bottom line: Roblox and ChatGPT have both attracted massive user bases despite regularly generating the sort of headlines their owners would rather forget. Now, the European Union is reportedly preparing to place both services under its strictest online platform rules, forcing them to become safer, more transparent, and more accountable. Whether they adhere to these rules is another matter.

Bloomberg reports that the European Commission is preparing to add Roblox and ChatGPT to

Bottom line: While Microsoft continues to ride the AI wave, Xbox continues to struggle. New CEO Asha Sharma recently began implementing plans for a radical course correction, but it is still too soon to predict their impact. The company's fourth-quarter financial results for 2026 show a 10% fall in Xbox content and services and a 13% decline in hardware revenue, while Microsoft's

Connecting the dots: Are you always highly stressed, in a bad mood, and find you don't spend as much time on enjoyable activities as you used to? Most people would probably say that's just the world we live in, but a new study links many of these problems to excessive time spent online.

Researchers led by the University of Duisburg-Essen studied 900 German adults, with data