November 5, 2022

New Twitter Blue is Coming

It appears Chief Twit’s demands for the new Twitter Blue to be launched on Monday, November 7th are happening (sort of) . There has been some pre-launch testing happening on iOS. This testing has confirmed the new $7.99 USD price for Twitter Blue with the blue verification badge (or more like paid status symbol), however some of the other mentioned features are still ‘coming soon’. According to an in-app iOS notification viewed by TechCrunch, the upgraded Twitter Blue, starting at $7.99 per month, will add the blue verification checkmark previously reserved for accounts that applied through Twitter’s free verification process. Other…

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Swedish Engineer Creates The Commodordion

You have to appreciate someone who can find new uses for old technology instead of sending it to a landfill.  In this case we have a Swedish software engineer named Linus Åkesson who has created a fully functioning electronic accordion. The Commodordion was built using with two Commodore 64 Computers, Floppy Disks, and tape (plus some other electronic components). Sure sounds like something MacGyver would come up with. Åkesson—a versatile musician himself—can actually play the Commodordion in real time like a real accordion. He plays a melody with his right hand on one C64 keyboard and controls the chord of…

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