Sometimes it can get stressful when it comes to managing your data, which is why it's always a good idea to have a simple and reliable way to back up your files without spending a ton of money. While cloud storage is an option, we think local storage is a better solution, which is where this Samsung T5 Evo portable SSD comes into play.

Adobe’s web design and development tools are dying software. Adobe XD — a UX/UI design tool — is only in maintenance mode, and Dreamweaver, Adobe’s web development tool, famed in the past, faces no more development, but still has support from Adobe. These two apps join a list of great Adobe tools that have been discontinued, but the modern day brings a ton of better web design and development tools to use instead. Although Adobe XD never took off in success, Dreamweaver has been considered a solid tool in the past. There are still plenty of others to choose from.

Henk Rogers at the Tetris movie premiere at SXSW in 2023. | Photo: Rick Kern / FilmMagic<br>When Henk Rogers first read the script for the Tetris movie, he was shocked. “There was so much Hollywood in the movie,” he tells The Verge. “It just drove me nuts.” The film largely follows a pivotal period in Rogers’ life, when he traveled to the Soviet Union to navigate the complex rights issues for Tetris to bring it to platforms like the Game Boy. There, he connected with game’s creator Alexey Pajitnov, with whom he eventually formed a lifelong friendship, and turned Tetris into a global phenomenon.The movie turned this experience into something resembling a high-stakes spy thriller — and while Rogers ended up loving the final product, that initial experience inspired him to tell the story of what really happened. “While reading the script I said, ‘I have to set the record straight,’” he says.That story now exists in the form of the book The Perfect Game. While Rogers originally sat down to write about the events that transpired in the movie, he soon realized the story was much bigger than that. “I started writing it, and somebody looked at it and said, ‘That could be a book, it’s just not big enough,’” he explains. “I didn’t want to re &hellip;Read the full story at The Verge.

Despite Windows 10 losing support in October of this year, it's still the most popular version of Microsoft's operating system. Granted, the gap between the user bases of Windows 10 and Windows 11 is rapidly narrowing, with Statcounter claiming that 54.2% of Windows machines use Windows 10, compared to 42.69% for Windows 11; however, it's still large enough to be worth analyzing.

While there sometimes isn't a lot that Windows users can see eye-to-eye on, there seems to be a pretty universal consensus that Windows File Explorer isn't good enough. Although it's undoubtedly been an integral part of Windows for decades now, and Microsoft has been consistently directing its efforts toward improving it, the application is still nowhere near as robust or customizable as it should be.

It’s wild to say this, but Assassin’s Creed Shadows might just be the most hopeful I’ve felt about the series in almost a decade. After so many bloated diet-RPGs that felt more like chores than adventures, Shadows somehow managed to stick the landing. It’s not perfect — far from it — but in some ways, that’s exactly why it hit me harder. It’s a game that finally feels like it's trying again.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 79, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, RIP your free time, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about dire wolves and Neuralink and the history of the Xbox, watching The Last of Us and Your Friends and Neighbors, underlining a lot of things in Graydon Carter’s book about magazines, setting up a Brick to see if it’ll help me manage screen time, refining macrodata in Rift, and writing down a million tips from this Reddit thread about internet life hacks.I also have for you the game that will both improve and take over your life, a new season of a favorite show, an AirTag competitor worth checking out, a fun new organizer for your desk, and much more. We were off last week, and I missed you all terribly. Let’s get back into it.(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you into right now? What should everyone else be playing / watching / baking / eating / listening to / downloading this week? Tell me everything: [email protected]. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installe &hellip;Read the full story at The Verge.

Amazon's Echo hardware served my household well enough over the years, but it's time for us to part ways. I'm removing Amazon's assistant from the home and replacing it with better speakers, more intuitive audio commands and processing, and full integration by putting Home Assistant front and center. Home Assistant is a completely free and open-source platform that will control everything within our home, including lights, audio, plugs, and all other smart equipment.

Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution built specifically for retro gaming, using the RetroArch emulator and the Libretro ecosystem at its core. It can turn devices like Raspberry Pi boards or old PCs into fully functional retro gaming consoles. While it's a newer option and doesn’t support as wide a range of hardware as some alternatives, it’s still very approachable. If you're using a commonly available controller, chances are it will work right out of the box without any extra setup.

Do you remember that one time we saw someone squash a whole Macintosh 128K onto a Raspberry Pi Pico? You'd be forgiven if you forgot, as it's been nearly a year since we last reported on it. Fortunately, we caught wind of how that project was going, and it turns out that you can now grab a kit that lets you make the entire thing for just under $25.

Though the larger Star Wars franchise has seen better days, Disney Plus’ Visions animated series has been consistently excellent for the past two seasons, and the creative teams behind its next chapter make it sound like it’s going to be another knockout. The anthology series will see three storylines from previous episodes continue in this third volume — not only that, but Visions Volume 1 episode “The Ninth Jedi” is getting its own spinoff series, under a new Star Wars: Visions Presents label.Star Wars: Visions Volume Three is set to premiere on October 29th, 2025, Disney and Lucasfilm announced as part of Star Wars Celebration in Japan. Visions executive producer James Waugh said during a panel at the event that the show’s third season will have nine episodes, three of which will continue the storylines from popular Volume 1 episodes “The Duel,” “The Village Bride,” and “The Ninth Jedi,” reports The Hollywood Reporter. The third volume will be followed up in 2026 with Star Wars: Visions Presents — The Ninth Jedi. “The Ninth Jedi” story showed lightsabers that derive their color from the wielder’s alignment with the Force — red is bad; blue is good. Kenji Kaniyama, who wrote and directed “The Ninth Jedi” will serve as supervising director for the spinoff. According to THR, that’s just the start; more Visions Presents spinoffs are planned, giving storytellers a chance to tell longer, deeper stories than the anthology approach has allowed, so far.Like the first season, Volume 3’s stories are produced by different Japanese creative teams. Studios Kamikaze Douga, Kinema Citrus Co., Production IG, and Trigger are all returning to Visions. But we can also expect to see fresh takes on the Star Wars universe from newcomers Anima, David Production, Polygon Pictures, Project Studio Q, and WIT Studio.Waugh and filmmakers working on Volume 3 episodes talked about what’s coming and showed off character designs and artwork. THR described, for instance, an AT-AT — the gigantic, four-legged walkers armed with lasers that first showed up in The Empire Strikes Back — with a Japanese building on top.Masaki Tachibana from the anime studio Kinema Citrus previewed an “especially kawaii” episode called “Yuko’s Treasure,” according to THR, while Hiroyasu Kobayashi of Project Studio Q discussed an X-Wing-focused episode called “The Song of Four Wings.” ”We’re a studio that specializes in the creation of mechanisms,“ Kobayashi said, ”so we really focussed on the essence of the old Joe Johnston designs and featured a lot of droids and mechs.“

A while back, I wanted a smarter way to manage all the gadgets around my home without shelling out for expensive hubs or closed ecosystems. I had a Raspberry Pi 5 sitting around, and after some research, I decided to install Home Assistant on it. Since then, it’s become the brain of my smart home — automating lights, monitoring sensors, controlling smart plugs, and even keeping tabs on energy use.