My first NAS was an unfamiliar device for me. I won it on a random giveaway, and for the first couple of years, it sat in my storage room, as I was in my sophomore year living in a hostel. After I graduated and moved back to my home, I started using it.

Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" that's a result of Sony's Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post. Sony says that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), which is available on the PS5 Pro, "remains the gold standard," and in Digital Foundry's early hands-on with the tech, it does seem that QSSR isn't as fast as PSSR because the PS5 doesn't have dedicated machine learning silicon. As a result, you should probably expect closer to an upscaled 1440p resolution on PS5 …Read the full story at The Verge.

Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google's AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around you, and describing details on specific objects. Like the VoiceOver Live Recognition feature Apple has added to the iPhone and Vision Pro, it's designed for people who are blind, have low vision, or want assistance in specific situations. In addition to the Gemini app, Guided Vision is also available …Read the full story at The Verge.

In the past, I have often managed to bypass geo-blocking and other restrictions by switching DNS servers. It's the most feasible option, since a VPN generally slows down your connection. So, I tried the same with my Fire TV Stick, and to my surprise, it fixed a much bigger problem, something that I wasn't even actively focused on.

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC and Chegg's claims don't stand up to antitrust law.In lawsuits filed last year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results. The publishers alleged Google's practices diverted …Read the full story at The Verge.

GPU companies always want to sell you the latest thing, just like any business would. Today, it's Nvidia's RTX 50 and AMD's RX 90 series graphics cards. Packing greater performance and more advanced ray tracing and upscaling features than whatever came before, these GPUs are supposedly necessary for running the latest games the way they're "meant to be played."

I recently covered the browser-based port of Halo: Combat Evolved, and now I'm back with more great Halo news. A community-powered effort has unofficially ported the original Halo: Combat Evolved to several platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, and PS5.

The Moto Tag 2 is an excellent smart tag that's compatible with the majority of modern Android devices. It's compact, accurate, and offers battery life that can last over 600 days. It's also quite affordable, with this 4-pack from Amazon now 30% off. The usual price comes in at $100, but can now be had for far less at just $70.

Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing.Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central's staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including Shruti Shekar, Derrek Lee, Harish Jonnalagadda, and Nicholas Sutrich, and former senior editor Namerah Saud Fatmi updated her LinkedIn to indicate that her tenure at Android Central had ended. Both Lee, the site's managing editor, and Sutrich confirmed that all remaining staff were laid off.The former staffers weren't told whether the site would shut down. Today, …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Steam Deck LCD’s “Aerith” APU. | Photo by Fritzchens Fritz The Steam Deck is four and a half years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2 - but Valve has consistently said it needs a new chip with a "generational leap" in performance and efficiency before building the sequel.There's some reason to believe that chip has now broken cover: AMD Gainsborough. But I'm a tad skeptical.As leaker Moore's Law is Dead and IT Home report, the latest AMD drivers have leaked the codename for a previously unknown chip: an "AMD Gainsborough." The first Steam Deck chip was named "Aerith" after Final Fantasy VII's heartbreaking love interest, and Gainsborough is her last name. Plus, the chip …Read the full story at The Verge.

I used to think I needed a separate app for every part of my workflow. I had apps like Obsidian, Notion, Figma, and TickTick in my setup. It worked, but constantly jumping between apps started to feel like unnecessary friction.

I’ve stuck with VS Code because of its maturity and the features I keep discovering. Its extension ecosystem is hard to match, but there’s more to it than extensions. It has built-in voice-to-text that runs locally on your computer, and Remote SSH lets you use the hardware of a coding server even when you’re working from a budget laptop.