Image: Instagram Instagram is adding the ability to leave comments on Instagram Stories, the ephemeral posts that many people use even more than traditional posts these days.Previously, replying to an Instagram Story sent a private message visible only to the person who posted the content. The addition of comments adds a more public way to respond to Stories. The ability to comment in the first place is more limited, though: only people who follow the poster and who the poster follows back will be able to leave a comment. Instagram explains how most of it works in this video. Just like Stories, the comments are temporary and will last for up to 24 hours; Instagram spokesperson Emily Norfolk says users will have the option to turn comments on or off... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge In a reversal, Starlink says it’s “complying with the order” to block access to X in Brazil. The company previously refused to restrict X unless Brazil unfroze its financial assets.Starlink, the satellite internet company controlled by Elon Musk, has been caught in the crosshairs of an ongoing feud between the billionaire, who also owns X, and Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.In addition to imposing a ban on X over the spread of misinformation, the Brazilian justice also handed down an order that prevents Starlink from performing financial transactions. The move was supposed to coerce X into paying $3 million in fines for failing to block accounts flagged by the Brazilian government, as reported by The New York Times.... Continue reading…

The port is on the wrong side of the car for most Tesla Supercharger stalls, but at least Hyundai didn’t tape it on this time. | Image: Hyundai The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 refresh revealed today looks like it will be one of the first non-Tesla vehicles to get a native Tesla-based charging port, now known as the North American Charging Standard, or NACS, built in from the factory. Last year, largely every automaker selling electric cars in the US announced it’s adopting the connector, but most haven’t added the port on their new cars yet, forcing customers to rely on CCS to NACS adapters that Tesla is taking a while to distribute.We’ve seen prototypes of the new Rivian R2 with NACS, but that vehicle is not slated for release until 2026. While Ioniq 5 buyers won’t need an adapter at Tesla stations, the company will give owners a dongle that goes the other way in case they need to... Continue reading…

Qualcomm is once again expanding its Snapdragon X series of chipsets for Windows laptops, introducing the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core. This is the Snapdragon X SoC that I've been reporting on since January, but branded differently than was planned back then. The idea is to hit lower price points for high-performing Windows on Arm PCs.

Microsoft’s latest Surface lineup for businesses. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is ready to start selling its Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to businesses. Starting on September 10th, both the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 will be available for business customers for the first time, after launching in June to consumers as part of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC wave of devices and its Windows on Arm push.The hardware inside the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses will be identical to the consumer options. Businesses will be able to pick between two main options for the Surface Pro 11. There’s the 10-core Snapdragon X Plus Surface Pro 11 with 16GB of RAM, up to 512GB of storage, and the regular LCD display, or the OLED model with the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite, up to 32GB of RAM, and up... Continue reading…

Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Microsoft has started testing a new gamepad keyboard layout in Windows 11 that’s designed for Xbox controllers. The gamepad keyboard layout improves the on-screen keyboard in Windows 11, so you can use an Xbox controller to type or navigate around the OS.The gamepad keyboard is now in testing as part of the beta channel for Windows 11 and even includes button accelerators so you can use the X button for backspace, the Y button for spacebar, and the menu button on an Xbox controller to hit enter. The keyboard keys have also been vertically aligned, so it’s easier to type with a controller. Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s new gamepad keyboard for Windows 11. It’s encouraging to see Microsoft add a feature like... Continue reading…

If you've been building PCs for a while, you already know it's easy to overlook seemingly unimportant details during the assembly process. For a first-time builder, these mistakes can be the difference between a no-hiccup build and a hunk of junk. If you're unaware of what you could have done wrong, you'll likely assume that your brand-new PC is somehow faulty.

Computers nowadays are quite similar to each other, with the lines even between productivity machines and gaming machines beginning to blur significantly. While there are obviously productivity workhorses built for very specific uses, most of the time, a gaming PC is close to what anyone needs no matter what type of task they're actually doing.

With IFA almost here, some companies are treating us to some quick peeks into what they're up to. Asus is no exception, as it's showing off its new Snapdragon X-powered devices a little ahead of time. If you're interested in taking a look at the company's newest offerings in the Copilot+ space, here is something for both the office worker and the creative.

For the most part, a majority of homes and offices are now equipped with wireless routers so that devices can easily connect to the internet wirelessly. This has been the norm for quite some time and really shouldn't come with much thought, even when you're connecting to the internet on the go. Of course, connecting at home or to your office network is going to be quite different from connecting to a wireless network at your local caf or airport. You really don't know the ins and outs of the network in public spaces, which means you don't know how secure the network is to ensure your privacy.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat will soon start “experimenting” with placing sponsored messages next to chat threads from friends, according to CEO Evan Spiegel.These “Sponsored Snaps” from brands will appear as unread messages in Snapchat’s main Chat tab, implying that they’ll sit above messages from a person’s contacts until they’re acted on. This is the first time Snap will show ads in the most used part of its app.In an employee memo also posted on the company’s website, Spiegel says that Sponsored Snaps will appear “without a push notification, and opening the message is optional.” It’s unclear how easy it will be to get rid of a Sponsored Snap without opening it, or if doing so will even be possible. (Snap declined to comment beyond Spiegel’s memo.)“... Continue reading…

Synology produces some excellent network-attached storage (NAS) solutions and it has always been relatively easy to migrate between models. So long as you weren't mismatching series, you were able to move everything across to a new NAS. With Migration Assistant, Synology has made it painless to migrate from one branded NAS to another. All you need to do is read through this guide and follow a few steps, and you'll be up and running in no time.