Engineer Ben Holmen has spent six years crafting “the world's most impractical 1000-pixel display.” This large and purposely inefficient device, which displays images by rotating an array of stained wood blocks, is now open to public usage via a web app. Holmen has dubbed this interactive 40 x 25 pixel grid the Kilopixel.
In Holmen's blog post, we read that the project involved “a web app, a physical controller
China-based xTool is expanding its reach into the U.S. market by setting up shop in Silicon Valley. xTool is a global leader in desktop laser cutters and smart fabrication tools, like the xTool M1 Ultra we recently reviewed . Up until now, its primary focus has been helping creative entrepreneurs grow their maker-based businesses by selling tools and materials for custom laser-engraved goods.
The move isn’t just about improving customer support. The company also announced a willingness
AMD already sells some of the best CPUs on the retail market. However, hardware leaker chi11eddog claims that the chipmaker might capitalize on the success of the Ryzen 9000X3D series and introduce two more models to the already diverse family.
The new processors will continue to utilize the Granite Ridge silicon with Zen 5 execution cores. One of the two rumored models will reportedly have 16 cores with simultaneous multithreading (SMT), a configuration similar to the Ryzen
Intelligence agents have uncovered the largest-ever (or at least largest discovered) Bitcoin heist, amounting to 127,426 stolen Bitcoins. According to Arkham Intelligence on X , the heist was made against the Chinese mining pool LuBian in 2020, amounting to a value of $3.5 billion ($14.5 billion today).
LuBian was the 6th-largest mining pool on the Bitcoin network at its peak, before the pool disappeared
When Bolt Graphics formally announced its Zeus GPU platform earlier this year , the company briefly stated its upcoming flagship graphics processor can be around 10 times faster than Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 in ray tracing workloads. But the startup never previously demonstrated actual benchmark results. Recently, the company quietly added a graph showing the relative ray tracing performance of Zeus GPUs compared to existing graphics cards, which appears to be quite impressive. However, there are a number of things to
Priced at around $210, ASRock’s B850 Steel Legend WiFI is one of the more budget-friendly B850 ATX boards around. The unique silver and white look and flagship-class audio codec are positives in an otherwise average board.
Flagship-class audio codec
Silver / white appearance.
Priced well among peers
Like most B850,
Modos Tech has announced that its fast and responsive e-Paper monitors for productivity users are now available for pre-order . The new displays are being provided in dev-kit form, touted as the “world’s fastest open-hardware e-paper monitor.” Central to these claims are the shared performance figures, which indicate the Modos Paper Dev Kit display delivers refresh rates up to 75 Hz and sub-100 ms latency.
This e-paper endeavor
A very early Amiga computer prototype was on public display at VCF West 2025 last weekend, as part of the wider Amiga 40th anniversary celebrations going on this year. On a white desk backed by a red curtain, you can see an unsightly collection of PCBs, chips, and wires that would soon blossom to become the most sought-after 16-bit multimedia home computer of the era.
The amiga prototype demoed at CES from r/amiga