Steam rises out of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island on March 26, 2019 before it closed later that year. | Photo: Getty Images Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US. Continue reading…

Image: Bethesda It’s been a long time coming for Starfield players. Bethesda’s sci-fi take on Skyrim originally launched last summer, and while there have been some updates and improvements since then, it’s taken more than a year for the game to get its first major expansion. This lead-up means there’s a lot riding on Shattered Space — which is a perfectly fine addition to the game that also feels incredibly underwhelming. After a promising setup, it ends up mostly being more of the same.Things start, as they so often do in expansions, with a distress call. This one leads you to a derelict space station that is brimming with ghostly apparitions and which eventually whisks you away to the home planet of the House Va’ruun, a religious sect that worships... Continue reading…

I work from home and have done all my life. It works for me, but one downside was the struggle between separating work from play, particularly when it came to my PC. I didn't really have too much of a problem with the likes of Slack being on my phone, but my PC being constantly in "work mode" became a problem, and I worked over the years to fix it. These tips helped me to improve my work-life balance, and they'll definitely help you too.

If you have recently experienced a slow Wi-Fi speed on all your connected devices for no apparent reason, it's possible that someone is piggybacking on your Wi-Fi network and taking up the juice. This can be really frustrating, especially when you are on a limited internet data plan or require high-speed internet for your work. Not only that, if someone is sneaking through your Wi-Fi network, there's always a privacy risk.

Hedging one’s bets, I suppose. | Photo by Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images After the podcast where Ben Horowitz repeatedly congratulated himself for being brave enough to support Donald Trump in public, it turns out Horowitz will also be donating to Kamala Harris. Or so he says.“As I mentioned before, Felicia and I have known Vice President Harris for over 10 years and she has been a great friend to both of us during that time,” Horowitz wrote in an email to his venture capital firm obtained by Axios. “As a result of our friendship, Felicia and I will be making a significant donation to entities who support the Harris Walz campaign.”“Like, how do you walk that back?”I... listen. Two things. First, one of the most striking things about the podcast Horowitz made with his a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen was how... Continue reading…

Backed by a thriving community of developers and tinkerers, theres no shortage of fun projects you can build with a Raspberry Pi. From affordable weather stations and Flask web servers to makeshift NAS and personal clouds, the Raspberry Pi boards are perfect companions for DIY enthusiasts.

Affinity Photo is lauded as the best alternative to Adobe Photoshop. While the Affinity suite can easily be compared to Adobes Creative Cloud offering, there are many direct comparisons between Photoshop and Affinity available to educate you on making the switch. Many of Photoshops tools and features are available in Affinity Photo, but there are still more than a handful of Photoshop features which are not available in Affinity software.

Apple AirTags are coin-sized trackers that rely on nearby iDevices to communicate with the company's Find My servers. So you can attach one to an item of yours, and as long as there's an online Apple device nearby, you will be able to locate it on the map. You also get some handy perks, such as audible pings, precision finding, and more. To get started, you will need one of the new iPhones, iPads, or iPods. After it's attached to your Apple Account, you can locate and ping it from even more Apple devices, such as Macs and Apple Watches. Without further ado, here's how to set up and use an Apple AirTag.

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Intel may have one less worry on its very full plate: it believes it has now fully addressed its desktop CPU instability woes with 13th and 14th Gen “Raptor Lake” chips. While the company says there’s still no fix for processors that are already damaged, it confirms to me that the “Vmin Shift Instability” is the root cause of the unusual instability and crashes that these desktop CPUs have been demonstrating for many months.And, Intel says, the four sets of mitigations it’s now shipped are the fix for the problem. “Yes, we’re confirming this is the cause and that it is fixed,” Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford tells The Verge. That’s good! It also wasn’t clear until now. As of August 30th, Intel was still telling us that “Vmin... Continue reading…

If you're in the market for a new smartphone, the top iPhones and best Androids are always worth examining, which naturally can lead you to the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE. You'll still need a solid case to make sure your new Galaxy phone stays safe and sound. Luckily, we're here to help with a list of the best Samsung Galaxy S24 FE cases out now.

A personal computer (PC) is a device used to access websites, play video games, create works of art, keep in touch with loved ones, store lots of data, and much more. Mobile devices such as laptops or smartphones can now do many more tasks that were traditionally only available to PC owners. A network-attached storage (NAS) server is a device that can store a considerable amount of data and run various services. This can all be achieved on a PC, so what are the major differences between a NAS server or enclosure and a desktop PC?

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Just over a year ago, Epic Games laid off around 16 percent of its employees. The problem, Epic said, was its own big ideas for the future and just how expensive they were to build. “For a while now, we’ve been spending way more money than we earn,” Epic CEO Tim Sweeney wrote in an email to staff.On Tuesday, onstage at the Unreal Fest conference in Seattle, Sweeney declared that the company is now “financially sound.” The announcement kicked off a packed two-hour keynote with updates on Unreal Engine, the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and more.In an interview with The Verge, Sweeney says that reining in Epic’s spending was part of what brought the company to this point. “Last year, before Unreal Fest, we were... Continue reading…