I'm convinced that my most common usage for Bing is searching for really badly-typed names of apps on my computer. I don't mean it, of course, but when I'm quickly typing in an app name into Windows Search, and I hit the Enter key before checking for typos, it'll take my mangled excuse for a word, fail to find an app that matches it, and instead feed it to Bing to figure out what on Earth I wanted.

It's safe to say that we're spoiled for choice when it comes to handheld gaming today. From the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally to Lenovo's Legion Go lineup, there's no shortage of powerful handheld PCs vying for a place in your backpacks. For the ones looking for a no-compromise experience on the form-factor, though, AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme doesn't have much of a competition right now.

For as long as I can remember, VLC has been the one app I installed on every new PC, after every new Windows installation, before almost anything else. After all, why wouldn't it? VLC has always been the no-nonsense media player that you can throw anything at, and it plays everything without so much as a complaint. This love affair of mine with VLC has been going on for the better part of two decades, and this open-source media player truly did earn a level of trust very few apps ever achieve.

If you've been following XDA's AI coverage, something you surely know is that we love NotebookLM. We've been reporting on the tool since its early Google Labs days, and we're always looking for new (and often slightly unhinged) ways to push the tool to new limits. A lot of the NotebookLM articles you'll find on the site have been written by me, and I've usually only had good things to say about the tool.

Microsoft Edge has come leaps and bounds ever since it made the jump to Chromium, but there are still some things that you can't do on Microsoft's browser that you can do on, say, Chrome. For example, if you want to sign into Edge with your Google account, you can't; you have to make do with using your Microsoft one instead.

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it's an ultrasound-based full-body scanner that uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical slices of the inside of your body, looking at the composition of your muscle, fat, bone, and organs to start. Holz said ideally, you could do this once a year or every single day, as it "aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many ways."He mentioned that one way he'd like to use it would be to see how h …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are a lot of things you can purchase to make your laptop better, but the docking station is one that a lot of people overlook. It's not going to be the most eye-catching accessory for your laptop, but it will be one of the more functional and crucial.

Bambu Lab makes some of the easiest 3D printers to recommend because the whole experience feels unusually polished. The printer, slicer, mobile app, cloud connection, filament system, and profiles work together to quickly reduce friction. That matters, especially when you're tired of treating every print as a small research project. For a while, I treated that ecosystem as part of the printer's value, not as something separate from it.

These keyboards stand alone. Complex. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great. At $249 they're a hefty upcharge over the regular $169 version, but that's still a decent price for such excellent build quality and unique designs.The standard Iqunix EV63 that the Ghost in the Shell Edition is based on is a 65-percent Hall effect keyboard aimed at gamers. It's got a compact layout, an 8,000Hz polling rate, and ultra-se …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you're in the market for a new appliance these days, you'll find that every washing machine, dishwasher, and space heater boasts a prominent Wi-Fi badge, promising a futuristic automated lifestyle. You're actually paying a massive 30% price premium just for a machine that wants to join your local network and let's say a company decides its 2021 model line is too expensive to maintain, it can shut down the backend infrastructure entirely. Suddenly, your expensive smart oven is no more.

Nvidia's dominance of the consumer graphics card market isn't just reflected in Steam Hardware Survey numbers or those absurd quarterly sales reports. Over the years, this dominance has given Nvidia the luxury of setting the pace for graphics technology itself. We live in a world where AI-assisted rendering, ray tracing, and image upscaling are synonymous with computer graphics, and that's entirely Nvidia territory — Team Green arrives first, and leaves other players like AMD and Intel to spend the next few years catching up.

After running local LLMs on desktop for months, I eventually started trying them on my phone too, and it ended up having more utility than I expected. I've compared models and runners for the same tasks before, but never actually put my phone head-to-head with my gaming PC, mostly because it's not exactly a fair fight. But as with every tool I try though, there's always something that ends up surprising me.