With Valentine's Day almost upon us, there are plenty of ways you can impress your special someone with your computing skills. For instance, you could showcase your Excel mastery by coding sweet messages inside .xlsx files. Or you can put your NAS to good use by building romantic projects for an at-home date.

Now that everything about the new RTX 5080 is out in the open, I've reluctantly decided to skip this generation and retain my RTX 3080 for another year. I was hoping to upgrade to the RTX 5080 in the months leading up to the launch, but no matter which way I cut it, I can't justify that anymore. My RTX 3080 still holds up in the latest games at 1440p optimized settings, so the wait continues for me.

If you have a small business and you're looking for ways to improve your technical infrastructure, a NAS is one of the best ways to do it. I've helped out a few businesses at this stage with one, as while all of their needs were different, the best solution across many of them was a NAS to store data for ease of access.

If AI-generated images blow your mind, you're in for a treat with Adobe's latest AI offering. Today, as announced in an Adobe Newsroom post, the company officially released the Firefly AI Video Generator to the public. First showcased at Adobe Max 2024, the tool is now in public beta, allowing users to create 5-second 1080p HD video clips with a free or paid account.

Usually, when you’re looking for open-source alternatives to Adobe apps, you have plenty of options to choose from. For instance, apps like GIMP and Photopea serve as solid alternatives to Photoshop. You can even build a whole creative suite similar to Creative Cloud using open-source software. However, there’s one Adobe app that has far too few open-source alternatives — Acrobat. It has become the default choice for reading and processing PDFs, whether you use a Windows PC or a Mac. Still, there are a handful of open-source alternatives to Acrobat that you might want to consider. Here are four of them.

We love customization here at XDA, and when it comes to Windows 11, there's no shortage of tools to help you get the exact experience you want. But most of those — whether it's something like Start11, StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher, or Windhawk — focus on taking elements you already know and tweaking them. Sometimes they restore lost functionality, other times they add something completely new. But at their core, they feel more like tweaks than anything else. But that's where Rainmeter comes in.

Penpot’s open-source UX/UI software has taken the digital creative industries by storm since its inception in 2015. Penpot has great tools which are better than other UX/UI softwarelike Figma and alternatives, but since the tail end of 2024 and its introduction of plugins, it now competes even better with design and development software services. Plugins improve your user experience through creative tools with integrated third-party apps, whether you’re using plugins in DaVinci Resolve, Krita, or Photoshop. Now you can access community-made plugins for Penpot, too.

Valentine’s Day is about more than spending a lot of money on your significant other, going out to dinner, and eating a ton of chocolate. Above all else, it’s about spending quality time, and what better way to do that than with video games? Plenty of co-op experiences exist, but depending on your skill level and the genre that best fits your vibe, it can be difficult to narrow things down. Whatever mood you’re in, these games are a great way to spend time with your significant other.

New look, new dial.Wacom has completely overhauled its Intuos Pro drawing tablets to make them more compact, convenient, and customizable for creative professionals. This is the biggest redesign for the Intuos Pro lineup since its introduction in 2013, featuring a new layout that relocates user controls from the side to the top of the tablet and replaces the previous touch ring with mechanical dials. It’s a huge change, but one I quickly welcomed in the short time I had to test it myself.The Intuos Pro is Wacom’s pen tablet targeting industry creatives like 3D artists, illustrators, and photo editors who prefer to work on their own (typically calibrated) displays. Unlike Wacom’s Cintiq or One range, the Intuos Pro doesn’t have a built-in screen, making it easier to throw into a bag and connect to computing devices.There are three sizes available: Small (€269.99), Medium (€399.99), and Large (€549.99). I’ll update with US pricing when it goes live later today. Each model is actually smaller than its equivalent predecessor, yet feature larger active areas that make better use of that space. For example, the 2025 Medium measures 11.5 x 8.1 inches versus 13.2 x 8.5 inches for the 2017 version, yet features a drawing area of 10.4 x 5.8 inches compared to 8.7 x 5.8 inches for the previous model. They’re slimmer overall too, featuring a new 0.16-0.28 inch (4-7mm) sloping design instead of the previous 0.3-inch (8mm) thickness.The most noticeable change, however, is the layout. Where all previous Intuos Pro models had user controls like customizable buttons and touch-sensitive wheels on the side, these have now been shifted to the top of the tablet. That both greatly reduces the space on either side of the active pen area and makes it easier for left-handed or ambidextrous users to configure for their workflows. The touch wheel has also been replaced by tactile mechanical dials — one on the Small, two on the other sizes — which provide more precision when scrolling through the tools and actions users allocate to them. The customizable express keys have also been updated to a round space-saving design, with five buttons on the Small and ten on the two larger models.The Intuos Pro lineup works with devices running Windows 10 or macOS 13 or later. It supports both a wired USB-C to USB-A connection and wireless via Bluetooth 5.3, the latter providing up to 16 hours of battery life when fully charged, according to Wacom. Users can jump between USB and Bluetooth via a switch on the side of the tablet, allowing it to pair with two devices simultaneously.It comes with the same customizable Wacom Pro Pen 3 stylus that ships with Wacom’s Cintiq Pro and Movink display tablets, which features adjustable thickness and buttons. One perk if you already own these tablets is that the Pro Pen 3 can switch between devices, which is useful if you’re working across multiple tablets. The new Intuos Pro is also compatible with previous-gen Wacom Pro Pens and EMR styluses from Pilot, Dr Grip, LAMY, and Staedtler.I was able to handle a pre-production sample for a short time. While a full review will come later when I can test a final version, the slimmer design felt well-constructed and wasn’t flimsy. The slope wasn’t significant enough to feel noticeably more comfortable but I wasn’t using it for lengthy durations like many creative professionals do. The new layout is a welcome improvement compared to having the buttons and wheel on the sides where my wrist may accidentally activate something, and it didn’t take long to adjust to the delightfully tactile mechanical dial.

You can never have enough storage space, which is why it's important to always stock up on storage whenever it's possible. With that said, this Seagate Expansion 24TB external hard drive is going to be a fantastic way to keep all your things backed up, especially when it's down to its lowest price to date. For a limited time, you can now score this drive for $280, which is $50 less than its current retail price.

Linux is having a moment in the mainstream right now, thanks to the popularity of the Steam Deck and SteamOS. The thing is, while Linux is the overarching name for the operating systems bearing its name, there are as many Linux distributions as stars in the sky (okay, maybe not quite, but it's not far off).

Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay President Donald Trump “about $10 million” to settle his lawsuit against Twitter, reports The Wall Street Journal. The settlement would come on top of an estimated $250 million that Musk, who now seemingly has broad authority over government agencies as the head of DOGE, put toward helping Trump get elected last year.Trump sued Twitter, Facebook, and Google over his account suspensions following the January 6th, 2021, riot at the US Capitol, and a judge dismissed this lawsuit in 2022, rejecting arguments that the company was a state actor or that Section 230 is unconstitutional. While Trump’s case against Google is still pending, Meta decided to settle with Trump for $25 million late last month. Before that, ABC News agreed to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $15 million. And last month, the Journal reported Paramount Global was considering caving on Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over the editing of a Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview.