Ever since I started exploring alternate options to take notes, I've been constantly going back and forth between Notion and Obsidian. They're both excellent apps that offer a host of functionality apart from just taking notes. You can use them to create to-do lists, wiki pages, planners, etc. You can even map content from different notes and link them together. The possibilities are plenty. However, by default, Obsidian can only be accessed via the app. While that is fine for most people using their own devices, what if someone wants to access their Obsidian notes using a device that's not theirs? It could be a friend's phone, a public computer in a hotel, or their office laptop.

Google Chrome has been my go-to browser since it first launched in 2008. It carried me through college and into the start of my professional career, all the way until this year. After 17 years of Chrome — nearly two decades — I dropped the browser in favor of another. The problems added up over the years in a series of small annoyances that wore down my relationship with Chrome until, finally, a frozen, laggy browser made me say "Enough."

More properties are being equipped with fibre connections, whether to a nearby cabinet from the internet service provider (ISP) or directly to the house. These connections offer speeds over 1,000 Mbps (or 1 Gbps), which can fully saturate a 1 Gbps local area network (LAN). Most ISP-provided routers will only have 1 Gbps ports for connecting devices, but some with faster ports and aftermarket options will more than likely offer superior specifications, so should you purchase a 2.5 Gbps-capable network switch, even if your internet is technically slower?

It might be 2025, but let’s be real — 64GB USB drives and microSD cards are still everywhere. They’re cheap, reliable, and often the first thing you grab when you need a backup or plan a quick gaming escape.

Once you accumulate enough self-hosted services and reduce your reliance on someone else's cloud, a murky question starts to hang in the air. Sure, you save untold riches every month by not paying for subscriptions. Still, part of that subscription fee is towards server maintenance and resilience so that the cloud provider has near-perfect uptime, and you can access your data at any time you need.

I think a big selling point for a Raspberry Pi project is how cool it looks. A project could take very little effort to make and include very few parts, but if I can imagine it sitting on my table and looking really cool, then there's a good chance I'll fall in love with it.

My cat Noodle, brought to life with an unsettlingly large, humanlike tongue.Chinese phone manufacturer Honor has launched an image-to-video AI generator powered by Google, before it's available to Gemini users. It will be available first for anyone who buys the Honor 400 or 400 Pro phones, which launch next week on May 22nd.The new AI tool, powered by Google's Veo 2 model, creates five-second videos based on static images, in either portrait or landscape, and takes a minute or two to generate each time. The feature is built directly into the Gallery app on the new Honor phones, and is designed to be simple: there's no option to include a text prompt along with the image, so you're stuck hoping that the AI does something sensible with it. Sometimes it works well. Give it a simple subject, like a clear photo of a person or pet, and it can generate quite realistic movement - albeit I'm pretty sure my cat Noodle's tongue isn't quite that big. Other subjects prove trickier: faced with a vintage car it made it rotate impossibly on the spot; fresh tomatoes were fondled by a ghostly hand; and it imagined a women's soccer game with at least 27 players across three teams, with two referees to keep control of the chaos. The first time I tried it, on …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Keep has finally expanded the text formatting options to its web app, almost two years after making them available for Android users. The update for Google’s web-based note-taking service is now rolling out to Google Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google account users and provides new options for customizing text and heading styles. It may take a few weeks for the text formatting options to appear for everyone. The new formatting options are housed in the underlined “A” button found in the bottom left-hand corner of the updated Keep text editor. Clicking this will open a new toolbar that allows users to underline, bold, italicize, and remove formatting, alongside converting regular text into H1 or H2 headers. The changes should help Google Keep users on the web to add more structure to their notes, making it easier to lay out and find specific information. And hopefully, all that formatting will now sync between the web and Android versions to avoid having to re-edit things.

Among the many Star Wars games that have come out over the years, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the most beloved by fans. It was a role-playing game developed by Bioware that highlighted an era of Star Wars set 4,000 years prior to the movies, which became popular when it first released for the original Xbox in 2003. It was critically praised by many outlets at the time, despite a few things about the game that were criticized in reviews. But Star Wars fans still view it as one of the best Star Wars games ever released, and arguably one of the best role-playing games of all-time to be released on consoles.

The Razer Blade lineup of gaming laptops hardly needs any introduction. Every year, these are among the most powerful (and most expensive) gaming laptops on the market, and this year is no exception. This generation's update is of particular note for the 16" model, as it's the first Blade 16 to feature an AMD CPU after having exclusively used Intel CPUs since the model's launch.

With the announcement that Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI to May 26, 2026, it might seem like the publisher and parent company, Take-Two, is in dire straits without its cash cow. That may have been true in a different calendar year, but Take-Two has been working on several games, and the timing has worked out in the company's favor.

The pause aims to provide time for further trade negotiations.The United States and China have mutually agreed to a 90 day reduction on tariffs implemented in April, marking a significant attempt to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.The deal was hashed out by US and Chinese officials in Geneva over the weekend, and will see the US reducing duties on Chinese imports from 145 percent to 30 percent, and China lowering tariffs on US goods to 10 percent, down from 125 percent. This new agreement doesn’t change the removal of the de minimis exception on May 2nd, which closed the tariff loophole that allowed businesses like Temu and Shein to send goods under $800 into the US without any added duties at all.“We concluded that we have a shared interest,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a news conference in Geneva. “We want more balanced trade, and I think both sides are committed to achieving that. Neither side wants a decoupling.”The 90-day pause is meant to provide the two countries time to negotiate a final trade deal.