If you're looking for a laptop that's powerful and efficient, you can't go wrong with ones that are powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips. We know that some of these laptops can be expensive, but that doesn't mean you can't score one for cheap if you know where to look. Luckily, we've done all the hard work for you, spotting this deal on the HP OmniBook X, which is now $300 off, falling to one of its best prices this year.

As an old companion in my tinkering journey, my Raspberry Pi 5 had to bear the brunt of my DIY experiments, which have ranged from all-in-one productivity hubs to Docker containers running Windows. However, few projects can beat the synergy between Home Assistant and Raspberry Pi. The former is hands-down the best utility for managing the smart home devices and IoT paraphernalia in my apartment, while the latter’s low-energy consumption makes it an economical option for running services that require 24/7 uptime.

Being a freelancer, I receive hundreds of emails every day. While Outlook gets the job done, I’m always looking for ways to optimize my email experience. I tried dozens of email apps but kept coming back to Microsoft’s solution for several reasons. However, when Notion launched its new email app, I decided to conduct a week-long experiment. I wanted to see if Notion Mail could deliver on the dream of a truly integrated productivity experience.

Activision is starting to wind down Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile just over a year after its global launch. The game “has not met our expectations with mobile-first players like it has with PC and console audiences,” according to a post on X. The company will be pulling the game from the App Store and Google Play after Sunday, May 18th.Players who have installed the game before Monday, May 19th will “still have access to the game with continued cross-progression of shared inventories using existing content, and servers with matchmaking for online play,” Activision says.We deeply appreciate your dedication and passion for Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile. Going forward, we will be streamlining the scope of the game. This decision was made after careful consideration of various factors and while we're proud of the accomplishment in bringing Call of… pic.twitter.com/2FU3itRRZ9— Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile (@WarzoneMobile) May 16, 2025However, there will be no new seasonal content or gameplay updates, social features across platforms will not be available, and you won’t be able to buy content with real-world currency, Activision says on a support page. Activision will not be offering refunds for previously purchased content or for unspent COD Points.Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile launched worldwide on March 21st, 2024, and it shared progression with Call of Duty: Warzone on console and PC. But it apparently wasn’t as successful as Activision and Microsoft, which became a huge force in mobile gaming as a result of the acquisition, would have liked.

We've seen some pretty good deals on M.2 SSDs over the past month. But this has to be one of the best prices we've seen, with Amazon discounting this Orico 2TB M.2 SSD to just $102. Of course, that isn't an everyday price, which means you'll want to pick one up as soon as you can before this deal's gone.

Meta’s building a new AI data center so massive in Louisiana that the local utility company has plans to construct three new gas-fired power plants to provide it with enough electricity. Now, advocates and lawmakers are pressing Meta for answers about how it’ll clean up pollution stemming from the data center’s energy consumption.Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, shot off a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday demanding answers about how much energy the data center would use and the greenhouse gas emissions that would be generated. Powering the new data center with gas “flies in the face of Meta’s climate commitments,” the letter says.Tech companies are rushing to build out data centers to train and run new AI tools, driving up electricity demand. In this case, power utility Entergy wants to meet that demand with new gas infrastructure, raising concerns about the impact Meta’s data center will have on the environment and local residents.“We urgently need corporate responsibility”“Meta’s backslide from its own climate pledges risks triggering broader economic harm at a time when we urgently need corporate responsibility,” Sen. Whitehouse said in a statement emailed to The Verge.In 2020, Meta pledged to reach net-zero emissions across its operations, supply chain, and consumer use of its products by the end of the decade. But the company’s carbon footprint is larger now than it was when it set that goal, according to its latest sustainability report, as it doubles down on AI. The company has tried to reduce its emissions by matching its electricity use with equal purchases of renewable energy. It’s a strategy Meta and other big companies often take: pay to support new clean energy projects to try to cancel out the environmental effects of your facilities plugging into a power grid that runs on dirty energy. Environmental advocates are increasingly concerned that this strategy still burdens communities with local pollution, and that the pressure to meet rising electricity demand from AI is boosting fossil fuel use rather than renewable energy. We’re seeing that tussle play out in Richland Parish, Louisiana, where Meta has plans to build its largest data center to date. It’s spending $10 billion on the project, the company announced in December. Once complete, the campus would span 4 million square feet, about as large as 70 football fields. But the project is moot unless Meta can ensure there will be enough electricity available for all those servers, a problem it’s working with Entergy to solve. Entergy proposed building three entirely new gas plants with a total capacity of 2,260 megawatts to support the data center, but it has to get regulatory approval first.Some advocates contend that there hasn’t been enough transparency around Meta’s data center plans to help the public understand the potential impact on the local power grid. The New Orleans-based Alliance for Affordable Energy and the Union of Concerned Scientists filed a motion in March asking the Louisiana Public Service Commission to add Meta as an official party to proceedings over whether to approve construction of the new gas plants. Doing so would compel the company to disclose more information, and the commission is scheduled to consider the motion on Monday. “It’s hard to wrap your brain around [whether] a facility like this either might be good for your community or bad for your community without understanding the possible impact to your electrical system, your bills, and your water,” says Logan Burke, executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy. There are already forecasts that rapidly growing data center electricity demand could raise electricity bills in the US. Meta said in December that it would contribute $1 million a year to an Entergy program that helps older adults and people with disabilities afford their bills. Data centers have also been notorious water-guzzlers, although Meta says it would invest in projects to restore more water than it would consume.Sen. Whitehouse’s letter, meanwhile, asks Meta to answer a list of questions by May 28th. On top of questions about the data center’s electricity use and greenhouse gas emissions, Whitehouse wants to know what the justification is for building gas-fired power plants rather than renewable energy alternatives. And it presses Meta to explain how the proposal aligns with its 2030 climate goal.Meta maintains that it’ll continue matching its electricity use with support for renewable energy, including a commitment to help fund 1,500 megawatts of new solar and battery resources in Louisiana. It also said it would help fund the cost of adding technology to at least one power plant that would capture carbon dioxide emissions. Whitehouse wants to know how much funding it will provide and how much carbon will be captured. Carbon capture tech has been prohibitively expensive to deploy and costs are often offset by using the captured CO2 to produce more fossil fuels through a process called enhanced oil recovery.“We received the letter and look forward to providing a response,” Meta spokesperson Ashley Settle said in an email to The Verge. “We believe a diverse set of energy solutions are necessary to power our AI ambitions – and we continue to explore innovative technology solutions.”Entergy didn’t immediately respond to inquiries from The Verge. It has a goal of making sure that 50 percent of its generating capacity is carbon pollution-free by 2030. But the utility said that gas “is the lowest reasonable cost option available that can support the 24/7 electrical demands of a large data center like Meta,” in a statement to Fast Company, which first reported on Whitehouse’s letter.

When running my PC, I want to achieve the best performance possible. On my production system, I am not worried about the look of the OS; I only want to get things done. What’s annoying is that Microsoft enables several cosmetic features by default, and even if you get a brand-new, shiny system, it might not feel responsive or blazing fast. There are other features that I wish were disabled by default that eat up system resources. So, there are many settings I have to disable, registry tweaks, and customization tools to get it so it is at a point where it is faster.

Nintendo announced last month that it would be updating a handful of Switch games to run better on the Switch 2, and now some details about the planned improvements are available on its website. The improvements vary per game, but they include things like optimizing visuals for the Switch 2’s larger screen, better frame rates, HDR support, and GameShare support.The full list of games getting free updates is below, and you can see the specific updates on Nintendo’s website. The updates will all be available on June 5th, the same day the Switch 2 launches:ARMSBig Brain Academy: Brain vs. BrainCaptain Toad: Treasure TrackerClubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide ClassicsGame Builder GarageNew Super Mario Bros. U DeluxePokémon ScarletPokémon VioletSuper Mario 3D World + Bowser’s FurySuper Mario OdysseyThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of WisdomThe Legend of Zelda: Link’s AwakeningThese updates aren’t quite as big as the paid Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrades for games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Party Jamboree. But if you’re looking to revisit some older Switch games on the Switch 2, even the smaller improvements could feel welcome — especially for games like Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and the Link’s Awakening remake that sometimes struggled on the original Switch hardware.

I've written a lot about how people should not overspend on the motherboard when building a PC. Motherboard manufacturers love to market features that are nothing more than gimmicks, and most people don't need to spend more than $200 on a DDR5 motherboard today. However, there's a lot more that can be said about exactly how marketing traps you into spending just a "little bit" more on the motherboard — the most important component to future-proof a PC.

When starting on your home lab journey, there's a tendency to rush into things because the endorphin rush of learning new skills is fantastic. Even budget (re: old and outdated) Xeon chips are exciting to play with, networking rules are there to be broken, and there are so many different programs, operating systems, and technologies to play with that you often don't know where to start.

GameStop will have additional Switch 2 stock available in-store and online when the console launches next month, according to a post on X. In-store launch events will begin at 3PM local time on June 4th, according to the company. Pickups start on June 5th at 12AM EST / June 4th at 9PM PST.Online orders will also begin on June 5th at 12AM EST/ June 4th at 9PM PST, spokesperson Nicolle Robles tells The Verge.Didn't pre-order Switch 2? We got you. pic.twitter.com/6Xa4QUzM3g— GameStop (@gamestop) May 16, 2025GameStop opened up its preorders on April 24th, and like with other retailers, the online preorders started poorly. Within a couple hours, the company confirmed that online preorders sold out, but many people, including The Verge’s Ash Parrish, had luck preordering in-store.Best Buy said this week that “most” stores will have extra Switch 2 consoles available in-store at launch, too. The Verge has contacted Walmart and Target to see if they can share their plans for launch day availability.And if you requested the chance to buy a console through Nintendo’s direct sales, check your email; invitations started going out on May 8th, and I got my own invite on Wednesday.Update, May 16th: GameStop confirmed when online orders will begin.

Let’s say you’ve put together a reliable home lab that’s armed to the teeth with your favorite virtual machines and containers. But considering the experimental nature of home servers, it’s rather easy to break your painstakingly-built virtualization suite. Thankfully, you can arm your self-hosting empire with a couple of documentation and backup tools to facilitate quick recovery if (or rather, when) your server goes down after a botched experiment.