Everything you can do without an iPhone on a cellular Apple Watch

The Apple Watch is a perfect iPhone companion on your wrist. It pairs beautifully with the smartphone, displaying notifications from various apps, incoming calls and messages, calendar updates, and more. It also syncs with the Apple Health and Apple Fitness apps, so you can log workouts, steps, sleep, and more. There are several versions of the Apple Watch, including the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, and the latest models like the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2, along with even older models still in circulation. Many of them come with a cellular variant that can be used with its own plan as well as with the best iPhones. If you opt for the cellular version of an Apple Watch and sign up for a plan with your carrier, it affords plenty of advantages without even needing to have your iPhone nearby.

Emma Brar
Canada

Your next “Raspberry Pi project” doesn’t actually need a Raspberry Pi

If you’ve worked on DIY computing projects in the late 2010s, you’ve definitely heard of the Raspberry Pi, if not own a few single-board computers belonging to this family. After all, their tiny form-factor, affordable price tags, and solid compatibility with popular Linux distros (and packages) made them the perfect...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

HID Remapper now lets you use the Steam Controller on the Switch, and the trackpad actually works

In an ideal world, you'd be able to use any controller on any device. Different controller designers bring different things to the table, and having the option to pick your favorite and use it on any console or PC you own would be a huge benefit. At the very least,...

Daniel Martinez
Dallas

I added Claude Code’s memory to my workflows, and my automation became effortless

Anthropic has now built persistent memory into Claude Code. It works in two ways. First, there's Auto Memory, where Claude automatically saves useful project context, patterns, and preferences. Second, there's the CLAUDE.md file, which stores project instructions and context that get loaded into future sessions.

Brian Perez
United Kingdom

Trying to self-host LLMs made me realize local AI has a friction problem, not a quality problem

For the longest time, the conversation around local AI models revolved around quality. They were either too slow, too dumb, too small, or too incapable to match what the titans over at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are doing with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, respectively. That gap, however, is shrinking a...

Michael Johnson
Chicago

Lossless Scaling does 5 things DLSS and FSR simply can’t match

Lossless Scaling has built up a reputation in some corners of the PC gaming community as the secret weapon that makes DLSS and FSR irrelevant. To put it bluntly: it's not. If I'm playing a game with a proper DLSS 4 transformer-model implementation, that's what I'm reaching for, and FSR...

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a...

Brajan Lazić
Serbia

KDE Plasma 6.7 will make managing your clipboard a lot less annoying

One of the biggest benefits of using Linux is that it's a very much an operating system that gets out of your way. As such, when something on Linux doesn't respect people's choices and keeps bothering them, the developers are sure to know about it. And as much as I...

Sophia Wilson
Atlanta

Filament Manager is the boring AMS upgrade that actually matters

The AMS has always been one of Bambu Lab’s best ideas, but also one of its messiest workflows. It can swap materials, keep spools ready, and turn a single printer into a much more flexible machine. Yet the software side has never quite felt as polished as the hardware promised....

Quim Novaes
Brazil

I use Claude and local LLMs together now, and it costs half as much while being twice as fast

"People are going to use more and more AI." The words of Jensen Huang have become more relevant by the day, and anyone in a vibe-coding, programming, or creative workflow already knows exactly what the Nvidia CEO meant.

Jane Smith
Los Angeles

Microsoft admits that Teams’ UI is way too crowded, but it’s working on a fix

Of all the apps you can misclick in, hitting the wrong button during an online meeting is one of the worst. You can accidentally show your webcam, hang up on the call, stick your hand in the air, and even leave the call altogether, just from a simple aiming problem....

William Garcia
Boston

I tested 3 tiny local LLMs for everyday work, and only one of them impressed me

The local models that get talked about most tend to sit in the 7B to 12B range, which is also where most setups land if you've got decent hardware. Anything smaller usually gets written off as a toy before it gets a fair try. But not everyone has 16GB+ of...

Naslava Dacko
Ukraine

I have a new go-to browser

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 129, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, come on you Gunners, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've mostly been sick, which has meant nearly...

John Doe
New York

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