For years, Raspberry Pi occupied a very specific spot in my brain. It was the board I reached for when I wanted a project to feel open-ended, a little scrappy, and still powerful enough to run a full operating system. That bargain started to wobble when the Raspberry Pi 5 arrived at $60 for 4GB and $80 for 8GB, which was already a noticeable shift from the old story people told about the Pi as a cheap default computer. By the time of this writing, the situation had gone from mildly annoying to impossible to ignore. Official price increases had pushed the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB to $305, while even the 4GB and 8GB models keep climbing.

3D printing is one of the most gratifying hobbies, since you can envision an object and hold it after just a few hours of CAD and printing. However, after printing my fair share of chainmail armor, articulating dragons in rainbow filament, and little business card holders, I've concluded that functional prints give me the greatest joy. Items that solve a problem I acknowledge, no matter how trivial, with the simplest of engineering.

The Keychron Q1 Ultra 8K in white (left) and the V5 Ultra 8K in black (right). | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Keychron's expansive keyboard catalog covers everything from basic full-size mechanical boards to niche layouts like southpaw Alice or a one-handed half-keyboard for gaming. Its Q and V series are among our go-to recommendations for off-the-shelf keyboards, and the latest iterations - the Q and V Ultra models - are a straightforward upgrade to the lineup, with benefits for regular users and deep-in-the-weeds keyboard nerds alike.I've been testing two Ultra keyboards: the Keychron V5 Ultra 8K and Keychron Q1 Ultra 8K. The $119.99 V5 Ultra is a near-full-size 1800-layout board with a number pad in a plastic case, while the $229.99 Q1 Ultra i …Read the full story at The Verge.

Generally, I agree with the saying "Better late than never," especially when it comes to software fixes. Having a bug or annoying behavior hang around in the code forever is a lot more irritating than the fix arriving late. However, sometimes a tweak comes so late that it makes me wonder if there's perhaps an upper limit on using that phrase.

A little while ago, we reported on how Google and NotebookLM were teaming up to make life a lot easier for people who use both. The idea is that the two apps can sync with one another, so you can ask Gemini about stuff you've stored on NotebookLM, and you can save stuff you research with Gemini to NotebookLM.

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of PC upgrades? If you're a gamer, chances are, it's a better GPU. After all, that's the upgrade everyone loves to talk about because it brings the most improvements. I totally understand the appeal of chasing higher frame rates, but as someone who has made plenty of mistakes in the past while upgrading, I've realized that it's not always the smartest place to start, especially if you already have a decent mid-range or high-end card.

Ethernet cables come in many different colors, but they really only come in two shapes: the normal, round variety, and then the flat variant. The latter has become very popular in homes and offices everywhere for their ability to blend into a baseboard or be run underneath a rug or carpet, and are some of the best-selling cables on Amazon. It's easy to see the appeal, but before you order hundreds of feet and start routing them through your home, it's worth understanding what you're actually trading away, because flat Ethernet does come with a set of very real drawbacks.

Fedora was the Linux distro that got me off Windows, and one of its main fortes, in my opinion, is its stability. I've very rarely had issues with using the OS, and anything that I have encountered was both easy to remedy and fixed pretty rapidly. So, as you might expect, if a new release of Fedora has a few nasty bugs in it, the community would rather delay the release than ruin the trust people have in the OS and ship it.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more stories on Big Tech versus politics in Washington, DC, follow Tina Nguyen and read Regulator. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedA long time ago, in 2004, the Federal Communications Commission laid down a rule designed to prevent a monopoly: No one company could broadcast to more than 39 percent of all the TV households in the United States. But then Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025. Brendan Carr became FCC chairman and immediately kicked off a deregu …Read the full story at The Verge.

Before Claude Artifacts, I had a routine I really hated. I’d be 30 messages deep in the conversation, and need to look at the table Claude built for me earlier, and start scrolling.

Gully Foyle is my name… | Image: Brick Tower Press This might feel like a somewhat obvious recommendation to some, but it flew under my radar until now. Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (originally published as Tiger! Tiger! in the UK) is a 1956 sci-fi novel that some have cited as a precursor to cyberpunk. It's a work I admit I have some conflicted feelings about, but one I think is well worth reading if you consider yourself a fan of sci-fi. It's also well worth seeking out a physical copy, something I wish I had known before I started reading it in the objectively inferior e-book form that can't capture the ergodic elements of the climax.It's hard to explain the plot of The Star …Read the full story at The Verge.

I use Claude every day. But when I type things out, it slows me down. It's frustrating because my typing speed can't keep up with how fast ideas pop into my head. So I switched to Claude Voice Mode. Now, instead of typing out my questions, thoughts, or half-formed ideas, I can speak my mind and even do a massive brain dump on Claude, letting it help me work through them.