If you're looking to upgrade but don't want to spend over $1,000 on a graphics card, going with something from the Radeon series might be the best solution. Not only will you get fantastic performance, but if you can find a card at a good price, you'll get better bang for your buck. With that said, you can't go wrong with one of our favorite graphics cards, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

When looking at ways to either populate a network-attached storage (NAS) system or build one from scratch, you'll need to consider storage drives. Hard drives are more affordable and come in various capacities, but nothing beats an SSD for speed. Still, you could save considerably by repurposing old hard drives, even from desktop PCs, to create a NAS that can handle device backups, media cataloging, and more. Though I recommend buying NAS-specific hardware for the task, re-using old hardware is a great way to save money and the environment.

The Settings app on Windows PC has some solid customization options, but if you want to push it further and want something more powerful, you'll need to download additional tools like Windhawk and PowerToys. While both apps offer plenty of tools for customization, the PowerToys app comes with an added Microsoft trust. In addition to safety and reliability, you now have another reason to use PowerToys, especially if you often share your PC screens for presentation.

Logitech sales boomed during the pandemic as people outfitted their home offices, and it’s getting a piece of the hybrid workplace with teleconferencing gear too. But Logitech’s also got a little-known corporate office management solution that could soon expand beyond conference rooms — using a pebble-shaped person detection device called the Logitech Spot. It’s a millimeter wave radar sensor you can peel and stick up anywhere, letting companies invisibly see whether people are in a room. The company claims it’ll last four years on a single D-cell shaped lithium battery, no wires required at all. It’s not just a radar sensor; it also measures particulates, VOCs, CO2, temperature, pressure, and humidity, so your company can get a health score for any given room. But the first clear draw is for companies to know whether workers are actually using their office space, and which rooms get used, as they make decisions about downsizing those offices, issuing return-to-office mandates, or reconfiguring them for hybrid work.“They’re thinking about real estate footprint, what’s the right strategy,” Logitech for Business head of product Henry Levak tells me.Levak says the radar sensors aren’t particularly powerful, when I bring up the idea that similar sensors could be used for pretty invasive snooping (like monitoring employees’ heartrate and breathing). The Logitech Spot is “initially” just reporting home whether a room is occupied, or not, and doesn’t even know how many people are in that room, he says. Logitech may also make the raw sensor data available to companies, though.He says the radar can see roughly five meters away, and maybe up to two feet left or right, and could theoretically know the general placement of people in a room, but that’s about it. For larger rooms, companies are already widely using cameras to detect and track employees, he says, but this could be useful for smaller spaces where “you don’t want to have a camera pointed at people to see if they’re in the room or not.” Each device can report back wirelessly via a LoRaWAN hub, using similar low-power long-range wireless tech to Amazon’s Sidewalk but without the peer-to-peer part. They’ve got Bluetooth as well. Today, Logitech is marketing the Spot most immediately as a way to help automate meeting room reservations, hooking into the company’s existing solutions like its Logitech View interactive wayfinding touchscreen maps and its meeting room touchscreen controllers, as well as an array of partner workplace management software including Microsoft Teams and Zoom.But like presence sensors in the smarthome, Levak says they could also automate all sorts of things and generate all sorts of insights. Things as simple as extending your room reservation if people are still using the room, or fixing the bad air quality or energy efficiency in a particular location. Or things as fancy as detecting whether a particular person has entered a particular room and setting their preferred temperature. Levak says you can use multiple Spots for larger rooms to help monitor temperature differentials, too.Logitech hasn’t announced a price for the Spot yet, so it’s definitely too early to say if it’d be affordable for non-corporate use in, say, a smart home, but it does nominally require Logitech’s cloud to work. Levak says “some crafty person” could theoretically create a cloud connector using Logitech’s API’s, though. The Spot is scheduled to ship in the second half of the year.Photos by Sean Hollister / The Verge

Gaming on a budget doesn't mean you have to compromise on quality. Steam has some of the most amazing games, from free to paid ones. But it's not necessary that you'll get the best deal on your favorite games on Steam; sometimes, you'll find the exact match at a much lower price on other platforms.

Nvidia launched its rather controversial DLSS 4 with its RTX 50 series, featuring better upscaling, ray reconstruction improvements, and a whole lot more. One feature that specifically made it so controversial was the introduction of multi frame generation, which can add up to three more frames to further boost the frame rate. DLSS was introduced in 2018 alongside RTX 20 series graphics cards, and while it's improved drastically and certainly has its uses, DLSS 4's multi frame generation works at its best when it doesn't really make sense to use it.

If you want to keep tabs on your Raspberry Pi's CPU usage, you can always use the built-in tools on your OS or download an app that can give you stats on how it's doing. However, where's the fun in that? Sometimes, the best use of a Raspberry Pi is to replicate what you could already do, but do it even cooler. Such is the case with this Raspberry Pi project that keeps an eye on how your Pi's CPU is doing and uses a light show to communicate how much load it's experiencing.

UX/UI prototyping tools are becoming some of the most important design software in the modern day. With lives lived with computers in our hands, apps, and responsive web design, we need more design intention than what’s been offered in previous years. With Figma, you can easily design and prototype entire websites, apps, or even presentations and small animated videos. With great power and development, it’s no wonder that Figma rules against its open-source alternative of Penpot. Although Penpot is Figma’s best alternative, the real deal is the better option for UX/UI design.

PC building can be a relatively drama-free affair. It’s never been easier to buy the parts and put them together yourself, but that doesn’t mean it’s always smooth sailing. The more tedious PC building tasks do get easier to deal with as you gain more experience with components, but it doesn’t make them any more enjoyable. These 5 tasks are some of the most difficult, but there are some ways to make them less painful.

Leaks surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2 have been coming at a constant rate. Before Nintendo revealed its next handheld system, leakers had already revealed the style, features, and even the console's specs. Now that the Nintendo Switch 2 is out there and everyone knows what it looks like, many have been wondering what games they can expect to be playing on the system when it is released.

You know, there are plenty of Nintendo consoles that game with an alarm clock function, but I never really used them. I remember the Nintendo DS had a system where you could set an alarm and it would wake you up with some cheerful chirps, but these days, I just have my phone do all the heavy lifting. Well, I might just go back on that, as someone has turned a Game Boy into a stylish alarm clock, and it uses my one weakness: e-ink displays.

There are a lot of great chargers on the market, but if you're looking for something versatile, then we think this Baseus Charging Station is going to be just the thing. Not only does it provide plenty of USB ports, but it also has AC outlets as well. Furthermore, it's also quite portable, making it easy to carry with you wherever you need to go.