From Windows containers to LXCs, the home lab ecosystem encompasses a handful of containerization platforms. However, Docker has remained the most popular utility for deploying self-hosted applications and services inside isolated environments – and for good reason. It’s easy to use even for beginners, has solid documentation, and is compatible with an armada of tools.

Horror fans rejoiced as Konami announced Silent Hill F in 2022, a new mainline entry in the genre-defining franchise. With the exception of the Silent Hill 2 Remake, a lesser-known PS5 exclusive Silent Hill: The Short Message, and the legendary (now unplayable) Silent Hill: PT demo, Silent Hill F will be the first release in the series in a whopping 13 years.

The CEO of Steve Jackson Games, which makes board games and card games, says that the 54 percent tariff on goods imported from China that will go into effect on April 5th is a “seismic shift” for the board game industry and that “prices are going up.”“At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans,” CEO Meredith Placko says in a post. “We do know that we can’t absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We’ve done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely.”In the post, Placko spells out an example of how the tariff could affect costs. “A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean,” she says. “Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That’s not a luxury upcharge; it’s survival math.”Placko adds that the company doesn’t manufacture in the US because the infrastructure “doesn’t meaningfully exist here yet.” She acknowledges that tariffs can be “an effective tool” when they are “part of a long-term strategy to bolster domestic manufacturing.” But she says that “there is no national plan in place to support manufacturing for the types of products we make.”If you’re frustrated with the tariffs, Placko suggests writing to your elected officials. “Ask them how these new policies help American creators and small businesses,” she says. “Because right now, it feels like they don’t.”The Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) has also issued a grim warning. “The latest imposition of a 54% tariff on products from China by the administration is dire news for the tabletop industry and the broader US economy,” GAMA said, according to Polygon. Card-grading company PSA has released a statement about the new tariffs, too, saying that the company has paused direct card grading submissions from outside the US.In March, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks told Yahoo Finance that “when you’re talking about tariffs in the neighborhood of 20 percent plus, that’s a cost that we can’t fully accommodate. It will have to be passed on.”

Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse data management tool used in business, research, and education. Today, the application offers over 450 built-in functions. Whether you’ve just started your first spreadsheet or have been honing your skills for years, there always seems to be another way to work more efficiently. To accelerate your learning journey, we’ve compiled a few functions that go beyond the basic SUM and DIVIDE functions. Once you’ve mastered them, you’ll be well on your way to increasing both the speed and productivity of your projects.

If you’ve ever dabbled with Linux distributions, you may be familiar with package managers. Rather than forcing you to download and install executable files, package managers let you set up your favorite apps with a single command.

Yes, prices will likely go up though not right away.If you were wondering how President Trump’s tariffs may impact gadgets like smartphones, laptops, and smartwatches, there’s some bad, and perhaps slightly less-bad news. Unless something changes, Trump’s sweeping tariffs will lead to increased prices for consumers. But it will likely take some time before that actually happens.Modern gadgets generally aren’t made or assembled solely in the U.S. anymore. Device makers big and small source components from all over the world, and often have them assembled overseas before importing the final product into the country. Given that Trump has levied tariffs on every single country, it means that the cost to make all our devices will inevitably go up. “The biggest thing right now is going to be the inflationary impact,” says Jason Miller, professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University. “If they stay in place for several months, we’ll start to see those effects by mid-summer and certainly back-to-school season.” Miller notes goods shipped from China to the U.S. will face a whopping 54 percent tariffs, including most gadgets. Vietnam, where Apple has shifted some of its manufacturing, also has a high …Read the full story at The Verge.

While ChatGPT's free version is powerful enough for most, subscribing to ChatGPT Plus unlocks access to GPT-4 and Sora, lets you use the service during high demand, provides significantly faster response speeds, increased file upload limits, and expanded messaging capacities.

Though Superman is clearly going to get the living daylights beat out of him at some point in James Gunn’s upcoming DC Studios feature, the movie’s latest trailer puts a spotlight on how the Man of Steel gets put back together again.During its presentation at this year’s CinemaCon, Warner Bros. shared an extended sneak peek from the new Superman, and the studio has just posted the footage online. For the most part, the video focuses on a very badly-wounded Superman (David Corenswet) begging for his dog, Krypto, to drag him home because he’s unable to walk or fly. While it’s played for comedy, it’s a little morbid to see Superman’s body flopping around like most of his bones are broken. But the scene becomes much weirder (in a good way) as Krypto drags Superman to a very inspired take on the Fortress of Solitude, where a team of cape-wearing medical robots are ready to run triage. Along with a very wild shot of the robots concentrating the sun’s light to heal Superman, the trailer also features longer shots of Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi), Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan), and Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion).Gunn is obviously banking on audiences digging a wilder, more whimsical world of superheroes, and it might pay off when Superman hits theaters on July 11th.

The Windows taskbar has remained largely unchanged over the years. While Microsoft has made a few tweaks here and there, like bringing back features such as dragging and dropping to the taskbar, the core design has stayed the same.

We've extensively covered network-attached storage (NAS) here on XDA, and this will only continue as the segment grows with more people looking to self-host services and store more data locally. For World Backup Week, you'll want to consider picking one up for your home if you plan on storing backups and other sensitive data. I first purchased a NAS enclosure in 2017, having previously read about them but never tried one due to an over-reliance on cloud storage. That all changed when I bought a two-bay Synology NAS.

To say people have been voracious over the latest GPUs is a bit of an understatement. Even the GTX 5090, which featured an eye-watering MSRP of $2,000, sold so well that retailers had to begin selling it way above the regular price just to prevent it from selling out. Now, Amazon has revealed its master plan: restricting some card sales to Prime subscribers

If you're looking to build your own NAS, you're going to want to buy drives that are built for the task. NAS drives are optimized to provide the best performance over a long period of time. Furthermore, you also get longer warranty periods that ensure your product will be supported just in case you have any issues. Of course, you can't mention hard drives without the name Western Digital.