Getting the most out of your setup or home office includes accessorizing. While you want to make sure your PC or laptop offers the performance you need, there are some things you can get to make your home office more enjoyable. Of course, everyone has different needs, so don't just buy things on a whim, make sure you thoroughly look into the items before you purchase to make sure they will work for you and your setup.

If you've made any storage upgrades recently, you may have come across PCIe 5.0 SSDs. They're pretty fast, but right now, upgrading to them doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's a lot more money for little benefit, and the major drawback of their power consumption and heat generated makes them difficult to actually use at full pelt. With the PCIe 6.0 specification being published by PCI-SIG, it's possible that it's going to run the exact same risk of being too hot to handle, or worryingly, even more so.

Did you manage to score an RTX 5090 during the release windows? There's a good chance that you didn't; after all, the card is suffering from a major stock issue right now, and people speculate that new ones won't become available for months. Well, if you're stuck with an old card for now, you can at least take solace that the 5090 series is having a weird bricking issue, and nobody quite knows why they're breaking.

What do you think of when you hear the word "MIDI?" If you're like me, you probably think of old Geocities fan pages that used the format to play popular TV show and movie themes with a tinny but charming array of instruments. It turns out that things have gotten a lot more developed in the scene, as Windows 11 is now getting support for MIDI 2.0.

Waymo’s robotaxis in Austin will be co-branded with the Uber logo.Uber is getting ready for the launch of Waymo’s public robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, prompting customers to join a list of people interested in riding in the Alphabet-owned company’s AVs when they finally go live. It also revealed photos of the new co-branded robotaxis that will operate across a swath of the Texas capital as part of the new service. Currently, Waymo isn’t open to the public in Austin. The company’s driverless vehicles are only available to a small group of people who joined Waymo’s waitlist to become early testers of the service. Waymo has not said when the service will open up to the broader public, but reading between the lines of this Uber announcement, it sounds like it may be soon. (A spokesperson for Waymo didn’t respond to a request for comment.)When it does launch, Waymo’s vehicles will be available exclusively on Uber’s app in Austin. The two companies first announced their partnership to put Waymo’s robotaxis on Uber’s app back in 2023. They ran a short-lived pilot in Phoenix and now plan on launching the first official version in Austin, with Atlanta to follow.Waymo’s own ridehail app, Waymo One, will not be operational in Austin. Customers who open Waymo One will be redirected to Uber’s app. To prepare, Uber is asking customers in Austin to indicate their interest in being passengers in Waymo’s fully driverless (the company calls them “rider only”) vehicles. In the app settings under “Preferences,” customers can choose to join the “interest list” to get updates about Waymo’s launch and increase their chance of being paired with an autonomous vehicle when the service goes live.The co-branded vehicles will also soon be spotted tooling around Austin without a driver behind the wheel. The vehicles will only operate within a geofenced 37-square-mile swath of the city that includes Hyde Park, Montopolis, and downtown.Uber customers that get paired with a Waymo will “pay the same rates as UberX, Uber Green, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric,” the company says. (Ride prices for all ridehailing, robo or otherwise, fluctuate based on traffic and the time of day.) Those fares will be provided upfront before customers accept the ride, and once the vehicle arrives, customers can unlock and start the ride from the Uber app. (There’s also a “start ride” button in the vehicle.)The two companies will share the responsibilities of running and managing a fleet of autonomous vehicles. Uber will use contractors for vehicle cleaning, repair, and other general depot operations, while Waymo will handle roadside assistance (when the robotaxis inevitably get stuck) and customer service. They will obviously share in the costs and the revenue produced by the robotaxi service, though both companies have declined to share the split.Waymo currently operates its own Waymo One ridehail service in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles; it recently hit the milestone of operating 150,000 rides each week in all three cities. Studies have shown that Waymo has better customer retention than human-powered ridehail services like Uber and Lyft.

Even die-hard PC fans will agree that the 2024 Mac Mini is the mini system to beat right now. Packing Apple’s M4 silicon in an enclosure the size of a dinner plate, it chews through light to medium creative workloads in near silence. Best of all, it starts at just $799, making it a fantastic choice for both a home PC and a budget content creation rig.

Adobe has constantly stood out in the world of creative software. While there is no shortage of free and open source solutions out there, these five apps hold a unique position. It’s just not about the features; it’s about the ecosystem, the polish, and the decades of refinement that rivals simply can’t match.

When we discuss hardware, it's easy to get mixed up in both x86 and Arm and forget that there are alternatives out there. For example, the RISC-V standard provides an open-source framework for hardware, but there wasn't a great deal of support for it. Well, that has just changed, as Framework has announced a RISC-V mainboard you can grab for your laptop right now.

Automation helps streamline repetitive tasks and improve productivity, and the Windows Task Scheduler is one of the most commonly used tools for this purpose. While it does the good job for simple task automation, its functionality is quite limited when compared to more advanced automation tools like RoboTask.

A few days ago, we covered all the new features that Microsoft added to Teams during the month of January 2025. That change log also mentioned a new calendar experience that is coming to Teams, and it now seems like the Redmond tech firm has finally made the enhancement available for Teams customers. In a recent blog post, Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Outlook calendar in Teams.

If you've been out of the loop about Microsoft's recent changes to Office, I hate to break it to you, but it's no longer Office. Rather, it's still Office in the sense that it was Word and Excel and the like, but it's no longer called "Office." Microsoft has performed a sweeping rebrand, changing the productivity suite's name to " Microsoft 365 Copilot." This also included a logo change from the Microsoft 365 icon to one that looks like Copilot's but has a little "M365" at the bottom right.

Ever since the performance leaks about Nvidia's RTX 50 series started coming in, gamers knew that AI-generated frames aside, Blackwell wasn't going to be a revolutionary upgrade over Ada Lovelace. And with the third-party reviews of the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 now out in the open, calling them the RTX 4090 Ti and RTX 4080 Ti Super respectively is more accurate.