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.

When you think of home server utilities, you’d probably imagine hardcore operating systems with complex UIs and a slew of menus. While Proxmox, XCP-ng, Harvester, OpenMediaVault, and other distributions have their perks, you don’t need a dedicated OS to build a reliable home server.

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.

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?

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."

Have you ever gotten your hands on a Dreamcast before? If you have, there's a good chance you remember the little VMUs that came with them. It stood for "Visual Memory Unit," and they were little memory cards you could save game data onto. Unlike other memory cards, these ones plug into your controller and have a little screen on them that you can see during play.

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.

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.

SSDs don't live forever. Just like a hard drive, an SSD has a limited lifespan, denoted (most commonly) by the number of terabytes of data that can be written to it (TBW). Most SSDs have TBW ratings that will take you 5 to 6 years to reach, even with unrealistic amounts of data written every day. Still, you might be unknowingly reducing this figure by ignoring certain best practices on your desktop or laptop PC. The chances of your SSD failing within the warranty period are pretty slim, but you can still do your bit to ensure that never happens.

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.

When you're choosing components for a build, what gets the lowest priority? Most users' answer would be the PC case. Despite housing every other component, the case is often treated as an afterthought, allocated the lowest portion of the budget. This is what I used to do on each of my previous builds — only on my latest PC did I realize my mistakes. After decades of using bargain-basement cases, I finally woke up to the important role the case plays in a build. I'm using the Lian Li Lancool II Mesh right now, and going forward, I plan to build my PCs using the case as the centerpiece.

Dr. Max Liboiron, Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University in St. John, Newfoundland, Canada.Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia. Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone. "There was this cascade that started happening," recalled Max Liboiron, a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland who hosts the virtual calls. "Everyone in the US was like, 'Holy shit. My career is over. My students' funding is screwed.'" Liboiron immediately entered triage mode. A geographer and university administrator by trade, Liboiron used to organize with Occupy Wall Street. "I was a full-time activist," they said over Zoom. With their hair buzzed and arms tattooed, Liboiron's past life isn't hard to imagine. They're Red River Métis, the Indigenous peoples of Canada's prairie provinces, and speak with a candidness that is both cool and calculated. Since Donald Trump entered office, Liboiron has put those rapid-response skills to use to support their US colleagues in need. US federal law recognizes many tribal nations as sovereign political entities, not racial or ethnic g …Read the full story at The Verge.