President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order.Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already selected nominees and chairs for key agencies that oversee tech. This time, Trump has the backing of many tech billionaires who attended his inauguration and showed up at his home in Mar-a-Lago.Read on below as we keep track of all the ways Trump is leaving his mark on tech in his first 100 days in office. Donald Trump wants to claw back clean energy funding DeepSeek wakes up Trump. Trump says Microsoft wants TikTok (again). Google Maps in the US will change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley Trump says he’ll put tariffs on imported chips ‘in the near future’ Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ Trump bends to the tech oligarchy. How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power Less Trump, unless you want it. Brendan Carr amps up his censorship campaign. NASA’s climate website is ‘moving.’ Satya Nadella on Elon’s Stargate accusations: “All I know is I’m good for my $80 billion.” Dozens of subreddits are banning links to X Trump’s war on electric cars has only just begun Elon Musk, White House adviser, says OpenAI deal announced at White House is a sham A PSA for all those wondering why you’re suddenly following Trump and Vance on social. Trump is absolutely going to make ByteDance sell TikTok or shut down again. Trump is discussing a 10 percent tariff on imports from China. Trump pardons Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht Donald Trump acknowledged his meme coin today. Trump says he’s open to Musk or Ellison buying TikTok OpenAI and Softbank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company ACLU and 18 states sue Trump over his attempt to repeal birthright citizenship CBS News reports OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank will announce a ‘Stargate’ AI data center project. A federal website on reproductive rights has vanished The United States Digital Service is now DOGE — here’s what it was responsible for. Donald Trump rescinds Biden-era executive order on AI safety ‘There is no “EV mandate.”’ Trump signs executive order to reverse Biden’s electric vehicle policies Trump signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days Brendan Carr is officially in charge of the FCC Vivek Ramaswamy steps down from DOGE Trump declares a ‘national energy emergency’ Donald Trump is officially president again

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.

We all wish our browsers could do things better, but we generally stick to mainstream options like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge because we're stuck in their ecosystem and put faith in their abilities. Still, variety is the spice of life, and it's worth trying some forgotten browsers to check out their unique features and design choices, which might surprise you.

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.

If you want a top-notch portable gaming machine, sure you could get yourself a laptop or a tablet, but gaming handhelds are all the rage. And the Nintendo Switch is still one of the best gaming handhelds around. But the Switch 2 is on the way, and it's slated to bring a ton of changes with it.

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.

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on January 24, 2025.The Trump administration sent a memo instructing federal agencies to pause grant, loan, and other financial assistance programs. It’s a catch-all for a wide range of programs President Donald Trump has crusaded against and it’s unclear what specifically is in the crosshairs with this move, but it seems to target Biden-era programs to deploy clean energy.But just before the funding freeze was set to take effect on Tuesday, a federal judge paused it until February 3rd at 5 PM, and could extend the pause after a hearing on Monday. The administrative stay will let the government continue to disburse only funds that have already been authorized. The freeze was supposed to stop funds for policies Trump rolled back through executive orders, “including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”There is no single policy in place across the federal government named “the green new deal.” But Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law in 2022, which created $369 billion in federal funding for climate action and clean energy. Trump, meanwhile, campaigned on a promise to rescind any unspent IRA funds. The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law also includes $50 billion to address the impacts of climate change and cyberattacks on national infrastructure, and $73 billion for upgrading the power grid. “Congress approved these investments and they are not optional; they are the law.”Agencies are supposed to temporarily pause disbursement of funds by 5:00PM ET today. By February 10th they’re supposed to tell the Office of Management and Budget which programs and activities are affected by the freeze. The memo calls “green new deal social engineering policies” and money used to advance social equity, including funds to assist transgender people, “a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.” Some Democratic Congressmembers are challenging the freeze as unlawful, according to NBC News, which obtained the memo. “Congress approved these investments and they are not optional; they are the law,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a statement. “They say this is only temporary, but no one should believe that. Donald Trump must direct his Administration to reverse course immediately and the taxpayers’ money should be distributed to the people.” The Department of Energy did not immediately responded to inquiries from The Verge about what programs might be affected. In an email to The Verge, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that it’s “temporarily pausing all activities related to the obligation or disbursement of EPA Federal financial assistance at this time.“Anticipating Trump’s efforts to dismantle its programs, the Biden administration scrambled to release much of the funding from the Inflation Reduction Act before leaving office. “On the unspent funds, we are at a place where we’re north of $9 out of every $10 of grant funding and other similar dollars that have already hit the economic bloodstream across the country,” Biden’s national climate adviser Ali Zaidi told The Verge earlier this month.Update, January 28th: A federal judge has temporarily paused Trump’s order.

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.

Towards the end of each month, Microsoft publishes a roundup of all the features it added to Excel in the previous four weeks. Now that we are wrapping up the month of January, the Redmond tech firm has detailed all the new capabilities it introduced to its popular spreadsheet software during the first month of 2025. This time around, the company has something in store for Excel customers for Windows, Mac, and the web.

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

Storing data in the cloud using free or expensive subscriptions is one thing, but it's a whole different beast to store even more data in the long term. You could use Apple iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Drive for all your backups and data you don't need to frequently access, but when working with big data or cold storage, it's best to use a provider with the means to manage files for longer periods and provide the support and software to make your life easier. We've rounded up some of the best long-term cool and cold storage providers right here.

Containers are perfect when you want to isolate your self-hosted services without the extra overhead of virtual machines. While the Docker CLI is the ideal way to manage your containers, running commands for simple operations can get tiresome at times. Docker Desktop is a decent option, but it’s rather rudimentary in its functionality.