A Foden steam wagon restoration that began with a field find in Buckinghamshire in 1975 formed the centrepiece of a talk at the recent Electromagnetic Field…
Author: Mark Spicer
Mark Spicer
Mark Spicer has been working in and writing about technology for the better part of two decades. He started as a systems administrator at a financial services firm, moved into IT consulting, and spent six years at a fintech building payment infrastructure before going freelance. He writes about fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity, and the technology decisions that companies make badly and expensively. He has migrated enough legacy systems to know that 'digital transformation' usually means 'we should have done this five years ago'. Mark lives in Reading. He still builds PCs for fun and considers the command line a perfectly good user interface.
The Yoniq Duo dual-screen handheld is the new device from a company with serious manufacturing weight behind it, arriving in the retro emulation scene not as…
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A prototype Pokémon Red Game Boy box, believed to predate the finalised English-release artwork, is now being offered for close to $500,000 by collector Mike DeRuggiero,…