Getting started with 3D printing can be exciting, but it has a learning curve. From choosing the right printer to understanding materials and software, beginners often make avoidable mistakes. Knowing what to watch for can save time, money, and frustration.

Nvidia's RTX 50 series has been dubbed a "paper launch" by many, in that it's been seemingly impossible for most normal people to actually get their hands on one of the cards. Unfortunately this trend has been going on for quite a while across the tech industry, upwards of twenty years, and it's likely only going to get worse in the future.

The Amazon Appstore has been around as a Google Play Store alternative for Android since 2011, allowing users to sideload apps and take advantage of exclusive deals. Today, the company notified developers (as shared by @RizbITUK on X) that the Amazon Appstore will be discontinued on Android devices, effective August 20, 2025.

The MacBook Pro Touch Barwas a somewhat controversial feature. While many users thought it added functionality to the laptop, others found it to be an unnecessary and, at times, annoying distraction. If you miss the Touch Bar and want to bring it back into your workflow, a program called Touché makes that possible.

Software evolves in both user interface and functionality, or it gets replaced with new technology. Take Microsoft Word, for example. It has undergone countless changes and looks nothing like it did when it first debuted in 1983. The theory of evolution applies not just to us as a species, but also to the things we create. However, some software has seen little to no change since its debut and has still managed to survive. In fact, many applications that are over two decades old remain fully functional on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 11.

Twitch is planning to cull some of the content archived by streamers to save on storage costs. On Wednesday the streaming platform announced that it will introduce a 100-hour storage cap for Highlights and Uploads starting April 19th, warning that users will have their content automatically deleted until it falls below the limit.Twitch says it’s doing this because “Highlights haven’t been very effective in driving discovery or engagement,” and it isn’t worth the cost of storing thousands of hours of such content. Twitch is owned by Amazon, a market-leading cloud storage provider — a detail that hasn’t gone unnoticed by streamers criticizing the decision.The update only applies to Highlights — specific snippets edited from recordings of live broadcasts (VODs) using the Highlighter tool to showcase the streamer’s best moments — and uploaded footage created using third-party services. Other kinds of on-demand content, including Clips and VODs (the latter of which are already automatically deleted) won’t be impacted by the new storage limit.We’re implementing a 100 hr storage limit for Highlights & Uploads starting 4/19. This won’t apply to Past Broadcasts (VODs) or clips.Less than 0.5% of streamers exceed 100hrs & this content accounts for <0.1% of hours watched. Users will be notified.https://t.co/RoDIAEzBV5 pic.twitter.com/zN7iKHpSqm— Twitch Support (@TwitchSupport) February 19, 2025Twitch users who have already exceeded the cap can download Highlights and Uploads before the restrictions take effect, after which content will be deleted starting with Highlights with the least views. To make it easier to decide which videos to keep, Twitch is rolling out a new storage tracker on the Video Producer page, and the ability to filter Highlights and Uploads by length, view count, and creation date. It won’t be possible to go over 100 hours of Highlights and Uploads once all users have been brought below the limit.“Introducing this 100-hour storage limit, which impacts less than 0.5 percent of active channels on Twitch and accounts for less than 0.1 percent of hours watched, helps us manage resources more efficiently, maintain support of Highlights and Uploads, and continue to invest in new features and improvements to more effective viewer engagement tools like Clips and the mobile feed,” Twitch said.The automatic deletions and 100-hour cap will notably impact Twitch’s speedrunning community, whose history is largely archived through Highlights. While Highlights and Uploads can be exported and uploaded to other platforms, the process is laborious and may interfere with how speedrunning records have been documented on the web. “Not just world records, but most every run submitted that was on Twitch is stored as a highlight on speedrun.com. That includes users who no longer run, no longer stream, no longer have an online presence, or may even not be alive anymore,” one Twitch forum user noted. “Crippling the highlights feature is going to be an unmitigated disaster for speedrun history.”

There are a lot of different gaming monitors out there, but the Samsung Odyssey Ark is going to be one of the stand-outs, featuring a massive screen that's also coupled with great performance. Not only is this a fantastic gaming monitor, but it can also double as a smart TV as well.

Volvo says the ES90 will be the “most powerful car” ever created. | Image: VolvoVolvo’s next electric vehicle, the ES90 midsized luxury sedan, sounds like its got some serious computing chops. The new EV will come with a dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration, making it the “most powerful car Volvo ever created in terms of core computing capacity,” the company claims today. The new supercomputer is included as part of a single tech stack called Superset, which Volvo says will underpin all of its next-gen vehicles going forward. The ES90 will be Volvo’s first vehicle to come with the Nvidia’s system-on-a-chip, enabling it to perform core functions at lightning fast speeds thanks to the computer’s abilities to perform 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS). This will come handy when managing functionalities such as “AI-based, state-of-the-art active safety features, car sensors and efficient battery management.”508 trillion operations per second Orin system also represents an “eightfold” improvement in processing speeds over the San Jose-based chipmaker’s Xavier computer that featured in the 2018 announcement of a team-up between Volvo and Nvidia on in-car hardware. The increased processing power to enable Volvo to gradually enhance its deep learning model and neural network “from 40 million to 200 million parameters,” the company says. The ES90 will be built on Volvo’s SPA2 architecture and will be the second vehicle, after the EX90, to be based on its Superset tech stack. Superset is a modular engineering platform that the company says will be used to make safer cars, more efficiently, and to improve them over time through over-the-air software updates.Tesla was the first company to introduce the idea of a connected vehicle with updateable software that could improve over timne. Now, the rest of the industry is scrambling to catch up by introducing their own upgradable vehicles. Volvo’s EX90 was intended to be the first major effort, but the electric SUV was delayed by software troubles, and when it eventually arrived it lacked many of its promised features. Volvo says it envisions a future in which features such as driver assist technology and battery range are able to be improved over time thanks to this new tech stack. And improvements for the EX90 will be translatable to the ES90, and vice versa. “The Volvo ES90 is one of the most technically advanced cars on the market today and is designed to be improved further with time,” says Anders Bell, Volvo’s chief engineering and technology officer, in a statement. “Built on our state-of-the-art Superset tech stack, the ES90 puts safety at the forefront.”

Is your Mac helping you work efficiently or holding you back? A cluttered, disorganized setup can slow you down, making it harder to find files, focus on tasks, and meet deadlines. These small inefficiencies can add up quickly, and before you know it, your device becomes more of a distraction than a productivity tool. Fortunately, you can optimize macOS with minimal effort and a few adjustments to create a faster, more efficient workspace. With that said, here are six tips to optimize your Mac for productivity.

Although most modern graphics cards have a safe temperature limit of 90C, they shouldn't ideally shouldn't exceed 85C when you're gaming. Otherwise, you'll start experiencing problems. While it's a good idea to keep an eye on your GPU temperature with tools like MSI Afterburner while playing games, the overlay—to me, at least—disrupts the immersion. So, I rarely ever use them unless I'm benchmarking a new game for a few minutes.

A deep dive into my Amazon history shows that in 2011, I paid $50 for a 500GB external HDD, and in 2013, I paid $165 for a 250GB SATA internal SSD. Those prices, and far worse, were the era of storage costs that I grew up in, so suffice it to say that having a ton of storage space with me on the go was never something I adopted into my daily tech repertoire until recently.

The Raspberry Pi is a powerful and inexpensive device that can do much more than act as your media server or retro gaming emulator. One of the best ways to use it is to turn it into a DNS server. This not only makes your network faster and more private, but also gives you a sense of empowerment and control. You can set it up in a flash and block ads, keep your DNS queries safe, and even set up parental controls for your whole network.