I love the new Nvidia app. I'm no stranger to criticizing Nvidia, especially when it comes to disappointing GPUs like the RTX 5070, but I have to hand Team Green its flowers when they're deserved. And the Nvidia app, along with its many changes, deserves some flowers.

There's no better solution than a portable monitor if you need to expand your screen real estate while on the go. And while there are plenty of great options to choose from, we think this one from Jsaux is going to offer something a little different thanks to its dual monitor configuration.

From Audi to VolvoPresident Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on all auto-related imports have been called “a debacle of epic proportions” and a sure-fire way to tank the auto market by crushing demand. Analysts have been predicting everything from $12,000 per vehicle price hikes to the possible “Cubanization” of the US car fleet.Now that they’ve had a few days to process the news, the automakers are starting to get their ducks in a row and make some moves.Here’s how each company is responding: AudiNow that the tariffs are in effect, the German automaker is holding all vehicles assembled in Mexico and overseas at US ports until further notice, according to Automotive News. Audi currently has 37,000 units in dealer stock and at port — which remain unaffected by the new import fees and are ready to sell. Audi reportedly said it would be marking unaffected units with a $0 “No Added Import Fee” option code for easy tracking.“We are evaluating how to best proceed for our customers and our dealers,” Audi spokesperson Mark Dahncke said. BMWBMW hasn’t announced any specific response yet, but the company said last month that it expected a €1 billion hit to its 2025 …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you’re going to take the time to build your own PC, you might as well take a few extra minutes to make sure your monitor is up and running to give you the best performance. Often all it takes is clicking a few buttons and all those fancy settings that the box of the monitor will all be active.

Buying a CPU is often much more than a necessary upgrade — it can determine the platform you'll stay on for the foreseeable future, and the features you'll have access to. This is why it's important to spend some time finding the details about the CPU you're planning to buy. The number of specifications you'll find online might overwhelm you, especially if you're new to PCs. So, I've condensed everything down to the 5 specs you should care about, and 3 that you can ignore.

In our ever-interconnected modern world, our kids are getting electronic devices earlier and earlier. Whether it's a laptop, Chromebook, or iPad for their school work, charging accessories to outlast their coursework, or gaming handhelds to let them kick back and relax, screens are part of today's educational landscape, and that's not going away any time soon.

President Donald Trump’s additional 75 day delay to TikTok’s sale-or-ban deadline leaves service providers like Apple, Google, and Oracle on shaky ground, and, according to one influential Democrat, is straight-up “against the law.”After Trump announced the extension on Friday, 12 Republican members of the House Select Committee on China, including Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI), released a joint statement in response. The statement did not address legal concerns with the second extension, but it said that “any resolution must ensure that U.S. law is followed, and that the Chinese Communist Party does not have access to American user data or the ability to manipulate the content consumed by Americans.” The letter says signatories “look forward to more details” on a proposed deal.In a separate statement, three Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) struck a similar note, saying that, “any deal must finally end China’s ability to surveil and potentially manipulate the American people through this app.”“The whole thing is a sham if the algorithm doesn’t move from out of Beijing’s hands”Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) was more critical in a phone interview with The Verge. “The whole thing is a sham if the algorithm doesn’t move from out of Beijing’s hands,” Warner said. “And close to 80 percent of Republicans knew this was a national security threat — will they find their voice now?”Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office delaying enforcement of the TikTok divestiture law, a move legal experts already found questionable. Then, he failed to announce a deal before the new April 5th deadline amid chaos over new global tariffs. Letting the delay expire would have put US companies that serviced TikTok after the deadline at even greater risk of hefty penalties.The original Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was passed with overwhelming bipartisan support to address what lawmakers insisted was a pressing national security threat, then upheld by the Supreme Court in January. TikTok has long denied that the Chinese government could access US user data or put its thumb on the scales of the recommendation feed through ByteDance, but many lawmakers have consistently doubted that defense. As the Trump administration has opted to effectively ignore the law, however, Congress has been relatively quiet.“Trump’s unilateral extension is illegal and forces tech companies to once again decide between risking ruinous legal liability or taking TikTok offline”A few Senate Democrats, including Ed Markey (D-MA), recently warned Trump that another extension would only introduce more legal uncertainty, and some expressed doubt that some of the reported deal scenarios could even resolve the app’s legal concerns. In a statement after Trump’s second extension, Markey says while he’d like to see the deadline pushed, “Trump’s unilateral extension is illegal and forces tech companies to once again decide between risking ruinous legal liability or taking TikTok offline.” He called the move “unfair to those companies and unfair to TikTok’s users and creators.” Instead, Trump should go through Congress to pass Markey’s bill to the extend the deadline, he says. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a member of the China Committee who’s criticized the law and warned it will harm free expression and creators’ livelihoods, also wants to see a solution go through Congress, but is seeking a full repeal of the law. Still, he called Trump’s delay a “good step.”The new statements from China Committee and E&C Republicans appear to be the first coordinated moves to put a firm line in the sand on the topic. Some Republicans who support the divest-or-ban law have previously urged Trump’s compliance in one-off statements or writings. Moolenaar previously warned in an op-ed that an adequate deal must fully break ties with ByteDance after reports that Trump was considering a deal with Oracle that would potentially leave some ties intact. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told reporters earlier this week that if a deal doesn’t comply with the statute, he “would advise the President against it.” If he can’t get a deal to sell the company in a way that fully complies, Hawley thinks Trump “ought to enforce the statute and ban TikTok. This middle way, I don’t think is viable.”Warner maintains that lawmakers want a TikTok sale that keeps the app in the US, and he says the Biden administration should have been more aggressive in getting negotiations started. He remains concerned that TikTok’s ownership structure could allow a foreign adversary government to influence young Americans. “During the negotiations, we saw the enormous bias in TikTok on things like the Uyghurs, the Hong Kong protests, the conflict in Gaza,” says Warner. “That was how we got 80 percent of the vote.” Warner says he remains concerned about the security of US user data, but sees the potential for TikTok to be used to “shape public opinion” as the more serious threat. Still, lawmakers seem unlikely to do much beyond (maybe) trying to pass a new law should Trump continue to flout the existing one. “Congress,” says Hawley, “we don’t have an enforcement arm of our own.”

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to Amazon this week, coming back to the company just about two years after he left, Bloomberg reports. He’s now a vice president at the company, and he will be heading up the Ring, Blink, Amazon Key, and Sidewalk teams. Siminoff is replacing Liz Hamren, who had taken over following Siminoff’s initial departure. Hamren and the team “have done an awesome job driving the business, delivering strong results, and bringing a lot of delightful experiences to neighbors,” Siminoff says in an Amazon Q&A. He adds that the “AI transformation happening right now” is a “once-in-a-generation opportunity.”In the Q&A, Siminoff also says that he and Panos Panay, Amazon’s SVP of devices and services, have talked “a lot” about “experiences we can create with devices that are awesome on their own, but even better together. I think you’ll continue to see a lot of that from us moving forward – helping customers stay safe, connected, and informed as part of a magical connected experience.”The day after Siminoff originally left Amazon, Siminoff sold a new company, Honest Day’s Work, to Latch, which he helped rebrand to Door.com. The company announced late last year that he would be moving into an advisory role in 2025.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom throws Link into the wilds of Hyrule once again with tons of things to see and do. Journeying across the land will have you encountering all kinds of enemies and puzzles, which you will be able to overcome in a variety of ways. The added abilities with Link's new arm in this game also gives you a breath of new freedom. With that freedom, there will be plenty of secrets that you never come across on your own. Here are some Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom secrets you might not know about.

Nice economy you have there, said President Donald Trump’s administration. It would be a shame if something happened to it.The something, announced earlier this week, is a set of globally applied tariffs that make no sense on their face. No sane economist would endorse this. Through a combination of stupidity, incompetence and sheer gangsterism, the Trump administration has decided to levy a series of taxes that encourage blatant corruption, entirely fail to encourage American manufacturing growth, and leave people and companies poorer. That is, assuming that the taxes come into play at all.“This is the craziest of the crazy things we’ve seen thus far.”The central, persistent thing Trump seems to misunderstand about tariffs is that they are paid in the US by people in the US. A reasonable person might also remember that he tried them a few years ago in a trade war, to negative effect. We have, as a nation, shot ourselves in the dick. But don’t take my word for it! Here are some actual experts:“This is the craziest of the crazy things we’ve seen thus far,” says Chris Barrett, professor of economics at Cornell University’s SC Johnson School of Business. …Read the full story at The Verge.

Backing up your PC and other devices has been a practice since the middle of the 20th century with the advent of magnetic tape storage, though one could argue it all started with punch cards. These tapes were colossal storage devices compared to USB and M.2 SSD drives of today and stored very little, with a capacity of just a couple of megabytes. This was a marvel at the time, but you couldn't even fit a three-minute .mp3 music track on one. We've passed through the ages with hard drives, floppy disks, solid-state storage, and the cloud.

The world of gaming keyboards moves faster than you probably think. Years ago, you would spend a couple of hundred dollars just to get a mechanical keyboard with RGB lighting. Despite major advancements in the quality of mechanical keyboards and the enthusiasts that surround them, you'll still pay high prices among mainstream brands for the same gaming keyboards we had a few years back. You don't need to settle.