When a really long road ends, why don’t we do more to celebrate the staggering amount of collective work that went into it? The ancient Romans really outclassed the federal highway system on this front.

With Sony clobbering the physical game market and Grand Theft Auto 6 eschewing discs entirely, it makes one long for kiosks that could make disks on demand—a model that actually once existed in the UK.

At what point do the creative limitations you create for yourself actually harm your ability to create? And what can ALF teach us about that?

Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

Who’s to blame for the memory crisis that turned Macs and Steam Boxes into unobtanium this week? The memory-makers have a convenient answer.

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.

This new eGPU barely works in Linux, gets quite hot, and is based on tech gamers already rejected. So why am I so excited about it?

Can you legally protect an artistic style? Not currently, but an Adobe-backed bill, a seeming reaction to AI, is pitching the idea. Personally, I see a bunch of blurred lines.

Google made everyone mad again, so another wave of people just learned about &udm=14. Maybe we should all take the hint.

Plex sends a message to the self-hosting community with a massive upcharge targeted at the very people who hate monthly fees.

If Byron Allen shows up at your door, you did something wrong with your media business. And BuzzFeed has a visitor. Also: I built a thing.

We lost Ted Turner, a patron saint of Tedium, just as an entrepreneur made an audacious Turner-style bet. What can we learn from that?

You’ve probably heard it’s futile, but that hasn’t stopped plenty from trying—some successfully, shockingly.