Have a Pixel Watch 2? You can now turn it into a Bluetooth computer mouse

Artie Beaty/ZDNET Back in the beginning of 2024, ZDNET detailed WowMouse, an Android app that lets you use your smartwatch instead of a Bluetooth mouse on a tablet, phone, laptop, or PC.  At its introduction, the app was available for most WearOS devices, including Samsung Galaxy Watch models. However, Google’s very own Pixel Watches were … Read more

First Neuralink patient can control a computer mouse by thinking, claims Elon Musk

The first human being to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk’s Neuralink can apparently control a computer mouse just by thinking, according to Musk. During a Spaces audio chat on Musk’s social media platform X on Monday, the Neuralink founder shared some information about the first human patient to receive the brain chip transplant. … Read more

Get this HP Touch laptop, mouse, and Microsoft 365 bundle for only $400

Get this HP Touch laptop bundle for $400 now.  HP/ZDNET If you’re looking to upgrade your computer setup, we’ve found a deal for you. Right now QVC is offering a 15-inch HP touch laptop, a wireless mouse, and a one year subscription to Microsoft 365 bundled together for just $400.  Also: The best laptops of … Read more

Fixing the Apple Magic Mouse 2 with a wireless charging ergonomic grip

This past Christmas, there was a box in my stocking that held something I had half-jokingly added to my wishlist: an “ergonomic” grip that raises, widens, and adds wireless charging to Apple’s Magic Mouse 2. It’s like a little boot with a Lightning adapter tongue that plugs right into your Magic Mouse’s underbelly. Best of … Read more

WowMouse turns your smartwatch into a gesture-based Bluetooth mouse

A company called Doublepoint announced a new app during CES this week called WowMouse that turns Android smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch into a gesture-based mouse for your computer. That means waving your arm around to move the mouse and pinching your fingers to click (similar to the Double Tap feature on the Apple … Read more

’Welsh Tidy Mouse’ organizes man’s shed every night, video shows

Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave When the sun goes down, one mouse comes out of hiding. It scurries onto a table inside the shed of 75-year-old Rodney Holbrook, and begins to tidy. This mouse is small, but it is mighty. It picks up nails, cable ties — even a screwdriver — with … Read more

The internet copyright machine wasn’t made for Mickey Mouse

Earlier this week, Disney’s film Steamboat Willie entered the US public domain after nearly a century — and so did its star Mickey Mouse. It was a turning point for one of the 20th century’s most iconic and rigorously protected pieces of intellectual property, and it was celebrated by an explosion of irreverent Mickey reinterpretations, … Read more

Disney pulls ‘Steamboat Willie’ YouTube copyright claim amid Mickey Mouse entry into public domain

This feels significant: Disney has officially retracted a copyright claim on a third-party’s Steamboat Willie video on YouTube. On Thursday, Mashable reported that YouTuber and voice actor Brock Baker had uploaded a video to his channel with over 1 million subscribers which was almost immediately hit with a copyright claim from Disney. YouTube’s message to … Read more

How Disney’s Mickey Mouse is being used in the public domain

It’s finally happened: after nearly a century, Mickey Mouse has slipped off Disney’s copyright leash. The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent version of Plane Crazy, enter the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024. (An early version of Minnie Mouse is also fortunately included.) … Read more