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Gaming & Esport: Reset Button for Esports
Scott Harrison became a pro-gamer by mistake. In 2015, Harrison and a handful of gaming hobbyists from various massively multiplayer online games came
Politics is not a spectator sport
Are you a political hobbyist or a political lobbyist? Maybe you’re a political atheist (someone who doesn’t believe in politics). There are probably other categories, but this is enough for one column. Andy Borowitz, a political satirist (another category) — best known for his “Borowitz Report,” short, fake-news, very funny dispatches — wrote a serious […]
Matt Maglodi Racing Announces New Small Business Motorsports Sponsorship Program Combining Grassroots Racing With Digital Marketing
Matt Maglodi Racing today announced plans to launch a new grassroots motorsports sponsorship program designed to provide small businesses with affordable digital marketing and promotional exposure while helping amateur and hobbyist racers offset the costs of competition.
Vintage computer collectors are reviving machines from the '80s
As Silicon Valley invents the artificial-intelligence future, a growing community of hobbyists is preserving the classic computers that helped launch the digital revolution.
Autographed Sports Memorabilia Trends 2026: The Players and Items Worth Chasing This Summer
Today in this blog on Athlon Sports, we will discuss autographed sports memorabilia trends 2026 and the top assets this summer. Dedicated hobbyists are driving immense liquidity into physical assets right now. Tracking major roster shifts yields great results.
35th Annual RockFest wraps up at Tellus Science Museum
If you are looking to dig into some hands-on family fun before the weekend slips away, a massive, brilliant display of Earth's natural treasures is waiting for you straight up Interstate 75. The 35th Annual RockFest is wrapping up its final afternoon of action at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville. The highly anticipated, two-day weekend spectacular stands as the Southeast’s premier gathering for geology hobbyists, fossil hunters, and families looking to spark an early passion for earth science in their children.
$100 million revenues for sports card sellers? Inside the race to own the live-selling market
Today, more hobbyists than ever are building their collections from the couch with millions of sports cards instantly accessible through their phone. This has made live selling the latest frontier in the sports card industry. It’s where live auctions meet the modern version of the home shopping channels that found success in the 1980s and ‘90s, but the sellers are using platforms like Whatnot, Fanatics Live and eBay Live to build their own proprietary businesses while those larger entities jockey for position in a rapidly growing market. Social commerce in the United States grew an...
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
: Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space
Make It Nice: How To Organize A Home Office
Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today, we have two home office cleanup situations and a delightful bird-related request. Selene asks: I work from home at a computer job and am a hobbyist musician. My partner, who lives with me, has done a phenomenal job making the rest of…
Apple's 50-year journey from garage to tech titan
In early 1976 in California, Steve Wozniak had just completed the design of a computer circuit board he intended to share with fellow hobbyists at a prominent local club. His friend Steve Jobs also saw a business opportunity to manufacture and sell the boards, and thus Apple was born.
A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
Olympic curling scandal threatens to forever alter a sport built on a culture of trust
The most troubling aspect of the Olympic curling cheating accusations is that it could mark the official end of the hobbyist foundations of the sport.