• Step 1: Make an unhackable crypto wallet.
  Step 2: Rebrand it as an iceberg detector.
  Step 3: Profit!
  
  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
• Techdirt's stupid patent of the month is a method for efficiently displaying a newspaper on a computer screen.
  
  The patent was issued in August.
  
  August 2018.
  
  The first online newspaper launched in 1974.
  
  
  
  mee.nu's art department envisages how the first online newspaper may have appeared.
  
  
• 8K TVs are here.  Do you need one?  No.  (CNET)
  
  An 85" 8K TV mounted horizontally with a touch-sensitive surface would make an amazing desk.   Maybe not at $14,000 though.
  
  
• Need a completely silent PC that can drive four 4K monitors (or two 8K monitors)?  (via FanlessTech)
  
  Not cheap, but the perfect accompaniment for your next 85" 8K desk / 85" 8K virtual window combo.
  
  
• We know what the answer is, we just don't know why.  A problem with theoretical physics.  (Quanta)
  
  
• A fool and his money are soon parted.  Should be the corporate motto of GoFundMe.  (Axios)
  
  
• Apple products you should not buy.  (ZDNet)
  
  Basically: iMac, iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air, AirPods, Apple Watch.  Which leaves the ruinously expensive iMac Pro and the just released MacBook Pro.
  
  
• This is kind of a niche-within-a-niche item, but it's nice to know it exists.
  
  A 7x9 array of keyboard switches (the things under the keys) and every single one of them is different.  If you're not sure whether your new keyboard should be a Cherry tactile grey or a Zealios 62g, this gives you both, and 61 others besides.

Video of the Day

I had a different pick originally but it made me seasick.

1 Frickin' Massdrop won't even let you see a product unless you sign in (I've run into this before.)  "Oh, we only show prices to members."  That's kind of a lie.

2 Ah, my fault.  Yeah, they do that, but if you get the link right people can view it without logging in.  I think.  Should be fixed now.

3 Klimt Eastwood is wonderful, evocative both of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and 'Sora no Woto' & 'Elfen Lied.'