Ever since ray tracing became a mainstay in modern games, many gamers started believing that they couldn't enjoy peak gaming visuals without an Nvidia graphics card. While it's true that Nvidia still boasts superior ray tracing hardware compared to AMD, the performance difference isn't large enough to ruin your experience on the latter.

Where there is a will, there is a mechanical keyboard. Frankly, there are more varieties of mechanical keyboards than most users know what to do with. I love a high-quality custom or pre-built board as much as the next person, but choosing one keyboard from hundreds can easily get intimidating, especially for someone freshly upgrading to a mechanical keyboard.

PC gamers never stop thinking about PC upgrades. As long as new CPUs and graphics cards keep entering the market, gamers will probably keep reading about them, watching countless videos on them, and being hyped about their next upgrade, irrespective of when (or if) it actually happens. New PC components keep the market fresh, users interested, and, in most cases, the industry moving forward.

Some EVs in stock on the Hertz Car Sales site. | Screenshot: The Verge Hertz has contacted multiple electric vehicle renters recently with interesting low-cost offers for cars like Teslas, offering them the option to buy their rental EVs instead of returning them. One 2023 Model 3 renter shared on Reddit that they were offered a price of $17,913, which is similar to deals currently showing on the Hertz Car Sales site. However, the rental they were in had about 30,000 miles on it — fewer than other current listings. Another renter was offered a 2023 Chevy Bolt for $18,442, while a Polestar 2 renter says they saw a $28,500 purchase price. The used cars come with a limited 12-month, 12,000-mile powertrain warranty and a buy-back offer within 7 days.Asked by The Verge if this was a special offer for EVs or a typical offer for Hertz’s used cars, communications director Jamie Line confirmed the strategy isn’t new, saying, “By connecting our rental customers who opt into our emails to our sales channels, we’re not only building awareness of the fact that we sell cars but also offering a unique opportunity to someone who may be in the market for the same car they have on rent.” Last year, Hertz decided to scale back its big ambitions to electrify its rental fleet due to low customer demand and repair difficulties on some models, including the Tesla Model 3. Then, in February, Hertz said it would no longer buy Polestar 2 vehicles either before marking 30,000 Teslas to sell off from its rental fleet.

I've had an issue with the home network ever since upgrading it from an ISP-supplied router affair to dedicated hardware for switching, routing, and wireless clients. We've gone from a single device for handling everything going in and out of the home, as well as internal traffic, to a cluster of components that make up an advanced home networking solution. It's becoming more common as we add hardware to existing LANs that ISP routers cannot keep up with due to lack of connectivity. The issue arises when you've got too much hardware and nowhere to install it and that's what I recently solved with a networking cabinet — the best and most pointless addition to my home lab.

Once 3D printers learn how to print more 3D printers, we'll never be short of them. Until then, there have always been people who have released schematics for an open-source 3D printer that you can make yourself. Such is the case of the Lemontron, a cool project that lets you make a 3D printer you can disassemble and store in an empty filament box once you're done with it.

Messy Excel data can be a huge time-waster and a major roadblock to getting real insights. When you deal with an Excel workbook that’s packed with inconsistent entries, missing values, and duplicate rows, navigating it can be a really painful process. At times, it is enough to make you want to shut your laptop and call it a day. In this post, I will share my tried and tested methods for cleaning up even the messiest Excel data.

There are many single-player games out there that could benefit from an additional co-op mode, but not every title has one. Whether the feature was planned and scrapped or never conceived in the first place, modders have been hard at work adding unofficial co-op mods to single-player games. Now, the new Spider-Man game is getting the co-op treatment, and the trailer for the mod is looking pretty juicy.

You know, modular controllers should be more of a thing. I can't tell you how many times I've been playing with an Xbox Controller (with the A button at the bottom and the B button on the right) and then got tripped up when I moved onto my Switch (with the A on the right and the B at the bottom). Having the ability to shift the buttons around in whatever position I want would be really helpful. So, when Ayaneo dropped their new handheld trailer and showed off that you can just swap the controls around whichever way you please, I was left wondering why other companies don't do this.

Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images Netflix says it had a big audience for its live NFL games on Christmas Day, with Nielsen ratings designating them “the most-streamed NFL games in US history.” The Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers notched a 24.1M AMA (average minute audience), while the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens hit 24.3M AMA, totaling nearly 65 million total viewers.Though Netflix buckled under the weight of the more than 60 million households that tuned into the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last month, its systems mostly held up during the two NFL games and star-studded performances from Mariah Carey and Beyoncé. Netflix has also confirmed it will add a standalone replay of the “Beyoncé Bowl” halftime performance to the service later this week after it registered 27 million live viewers — the game’s peak viewership. Now, the league’s broadcast deal will keep Christmas Day games on Netflix for at least the next two years. The NBA, which has traditionally aired basketball without competition from the NFL on the holiday, said that despite the competing Netflix broadcasts, its slate of games delivered the “most-watched Christmas Day in five years, averaging 5.25 million viewers per game in the U.S.” All five games up year-over-year, with viewership overall up 84 percent from 2023.On Wednesday, the NFL offered a preliminary glimpse at viewership, saying the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Pittsburgh Steelers had already become the second most popular live title on Netflix and that one-third of Netflix’s viewers at the time were watching that game.

Procreate is the go-to iPad drawing app for many digital artists and illustrators, including tattoo artists and pattern designers.

Joplin is a popular note-taking app known for its open-source nature and wide range of features. Many people use it to store various data, from short to-do lists to big research projects. While Joplin offers many ways to sync data, some prefer complete control by setting up their own Joplin server.