Its happened to the best of us: You punch in a passcode one too many times and get locked out of your device. Its probably happened before with your iPhone, but the same can happen with your great Apple Watch, too. If you try to enter an incorrect passcode too many times, you will get locked out of your Apple Watch. But dont worry. You can reset your Apple Watch and get back to tracking your health and receiving notifications again in no time. And you wont lose all your data, either!

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google recently started letting you use its Gemini AI chatbot to ask questions about your Gmail inbox on the web, and now, that feature is coming to mobile. The company says its Gmail Q&A feature is starting to roll out on Android and that the feature will be “coming soon” to iOS. Using Gmail Q&A, “you can ask Gemini questions about your inbox or to do things like find specific details in your emails, show you unread messages, view messages from a specific sender, or summarize emails about a topic in your inbox,” according to Google’s blog post. Google previewed Gmail Q&A earlier this year at its I/O conference. Gmail Q&A could be a potentially useful way to sift through your email or find something that might be buried... Continue reading…

When Windows 11 first hit the scene, there was a lot of confusion about its system requirements. People who had hardware more than capable of rendering an operating system smoothly were being told that their computers didn't meet the hardware requirements. After a few weeks of confusion, Microsoft revealed why some older gaming PCs were being turned away from Windows 11: it's because the CPU didn't support TPM 2.0. If your CPU was too old to support it, it wasn't compatible with Windows 11: end of story.

Hyundai N Vision 74 Concept shown along with the Pony Coupe Concept from 1974 | Image: Hyundai The N Vision 74 coupe was a slick embodiment of Hyundai’s “high-performance vision of electrification” two years ago that we have hoped to see as a real vehicle. That seems way more likely now that it got namechecked in Hyundai’s plan to launch 21 fully electric models by 2030. This slide (below) is from the company’s 2024 CEO Investor Day presentation, explaining the range of vehicles the company will launch and listing the Vision 74 and the Genesis Magma concept. The plan also includes affordable EVs like its Inster / Casper subcompact, the three-row Ioniq 9 that’s next up to launch in the US, luxury EVs from Genesis, and, finally, high-performance models. Image: Hyundai Hyundai EV Full Lineup slide E... Continue reading…

2024 saw the release of the Ryzen 9000 series of processors built on AMD's Zen 5 architecture. Succeeding the Ryzen 7000 series, this latest family of chips boasts improved efficiency and performance, thanks to architectural changes and a shrinkage in the manufacturing process at TSMC. The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 9 9900X are very different processors. The Ryzen 7 is the mid-range chip with 8 cores and moderate performance whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X is for enthusiasts and creators, thanks to its impressive 12-core layout. I'll run you through all the similarities, differences, and performance numbers to help you choose the right chip for the job.

Lacey still faces about 30 other charges related to prostitution facilitation and money laundering. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Michael Lacey, a founder of the defunct classified site Backpage.com, received a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday and was fined $3 million. Lacey was found guilty of money laundering last year in a sweeping case that alleged Backpage executives promoted and profited from prostitution. Lacey was convicted on a single count of international concealment money laundering in November 2023 but was acquitted of 50 other charges related to prostitution facilitation and money laundering due to insufficient evidence. He still faces about 30 related charges, according to the Associated Press. Two other Backpage executives — former chief financial officer John Brunst and executive vice president Scott Spear — received 10-year prison sentences... Continue reading…

A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) helps to protect network-attached storage (NAS) and other devices against data loss when multiple drives are used. A bunch of drives can be brought together on a NAS to create a single volume or storage pool. This makes it easier to work with data across multiple devices. A RAID achieves the same result but has the bonus of redundancy through reserved bacup data and drive failure tolerances. Combining a NAS with RAID is an easy way to create a powerful, yet user-friendly storage solution for the local area network (LAN).

Tired of using Windows and want to test Linux but are afraid your PC games won't work? Valve has the answer with its Proton compatibility layer. This allows thousands of Windows-only games to run most natively on Linux, removing obstacles and allowing you to play most of your game collection without a major difference in performance. This guide will walk you through a brief history of Linux gaming and how to get everything running through Proton on Steam.

Image: Sonos Sonos is still trying to clean up from the mess from the messy rollout of its new app, and to help give users a better idea of what fixes are in the pipeline, the company has shared a public Trello board detailing fixes that it’s working on.“All the cards here are sourced from various posts and release notes communications (Future Feature Update, for example), including communications from [CEO Patrick Spence] directly,” says Reddit user KeithFromSonos, who is a Sonos employee. “What we are hearing and working on is sourced from you — the Community at large and our acknowledgment of that area of opportunity.”Sonos launched its new app in May, and shortly after, bad feedback rolled in over things like missing features and the app taking... Continue reading…

When you install Windows, it comes with pre-made power plans that dictate how your computer operates and how some of the components operate. While there's an Ultimate Performance power plan that you can enable, for the most part, you don't need to enable it. Instead, we recommend turning on high-performance mode and then making some more changes on top of that too.

Keychron is a company that's known for its mechanical keyboards. Not only does it make one of the best mechanical keyboards you can buy with the Q1 Pro, but it also offers a wealth of other affordable options as well. Of course, we're always on the hunt for a good deal, and this discount on the brand's K12 wireless mechanical keyboard is one that you don't want to miss.

You mean it’s all copyright? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The huge leaps in OpenAI’s GPT model probably came from sucking down the entire written web. That includes entire archives of major publishers such as Axel Springer, Condé Nast, and The Associated Press — without their permission. But for some reason, OpenAI has announced deals with many of these conglomerates anyway.At first glance, this doesn’t entirely make sense. Why would OpenAI pay for something it already had? And why would publishers, some of whom are lawsuit-style angry about their work being stolen, agree?I suspect if we squint at these deals long enough, we can see one possible shape of the future of the web forming. Google has been referring less and less traffic outside itself — which threatens the existence of the entire... Continue reading…