Nintendo offers a free My Nintendo rewards program, where you earn Platinum and Gold Points for every digital purchase made on the Nintendo eShop or the official Nintendo website. These points can later be redeemed for discounts on select digital games, such as The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario. While the My Nintendo rewards program will continue to offer Platinum Points, Nintendo has announced that it will stop providing Gold Points.

It's no secret that Microsoft wants as many people as possible to use its Edge browser. Apart from adding new features to the browser, the company regularly tries "innovative" ways to encourage customers to use Edge, such as offering a fake guide to uninstall the browser, which actually asks users to do the opposite. Now, the firm has decided to walk a better path, and has announced that Edge is a lot faster than before.

Any device needs continuous maintenance and proper care to last longer. Sometimes we ignore many things that may endanger the lifespan of our PCs and we don’t even realize it. This guide will hopefully help you pay more attention to the small or big things you do to harm your PC and prolong its life.

When deciding what to use for your Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device, there's an array of options available. You can use an old PC, a dedicated server, a turnkey NAS, or even a mini PC. Mini PCs may not be the first choice for most simply because of their compact nature and how limiting their storage options are, but there are some good reasons why a mini PC would make for a good NAS, particularly if you don't mind using an external enclosure or Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) to increase its capacity.

Cloud gaming is a neat utility when you want to game on the move, but what if you already own a behemoth of a gaming machine? Well, you can leverage remote game streaming tools to run your favorite titles on your battle station and enjoy them on a different device. But then you’ve got to choose between a Sunshine server + Moonlight client and a Parsec machine. As someone who has experimented with both, I’d rate the holy Moonlight/Sunshine combo higher than its rival.

Windows 11 and 10 have intuitive interfaces, but sometimes, it can be too overwhelming to navigate to launch certain settings and apps. That's where run commands help. The run dialog box is one of the most underutilized Windows tools, but once you get used to it, there's no going back. Whether you're troubleshooting, managing files, or customizing your system, run commands can save you quite a lot of time and effort.

Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok-3 on Tuesday, announcing that the new artificial intelligence model has “more than 10 times” the compute power of its predecessor. xAI said its latest flagship outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini, and DeepSeek’s V3 models in early testing, and now features “advanced reasoning” capabilities.So-called reasoning models are trained to answer more complex questions by breaking instructions down into smaller tasks and attempting to fact-check themselves before offering a solution, with the aim of providing stronger results. Similar models have been developed by rival companies, including OpenAI’s o1, DeepSeek’s R1, and Google’s Gemini Flash Thinking.There are two Grok-3 reasoning modes available: “Think”, which will display Grok’s reasoning as it resolves requests; and “Big Brain” for complex tasks that require more computational power. xAI is also launching a Grok AI agent product called Deep Search, which the company describes as a “next generation search engine.”Musk says that Grok-3 is a “maximally truth-seeking AI — even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.” Previous versions of the xAI chatbot have been criticized for spreading election misinformation and having fewer guardrails on text-to-image generation, allowing it to spit out questionable or offensive imagery. OpenAI is also exploring how to develop its models to “seek the truth” when handling controversial topics, but with the aim of maintaining certain safety rails.The Grok-3 reasoning capabilities are available in the Grok app for subscribers to X Premium Plus, which now starts at $40 per month. This is the second hike for Premium Plus in two months, having increased from $16 to $22 in December. xAI said it is also launching a new subscription plan called SuperGrok that will provide “the most advanced capabilities and earliest access to new features.” SuperGrok will reportedly cost $30 per month, though it’s unclear if this is an additional charge on top of X subscriptions.Elon Musk said that the Grok chatbot will soon gain a synthesized voice feature that sounds similar to OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT. xAI is also planning to make Grok-2 open source in the coming months.

More often than not, people on the internet advise you to get rid of PC hardware that is perfectly usable, even years after it was considered obsolete. Every year, we are introduced to newer and faster PC components, but that doesn't make what you already have obsolete. Nine times out of ten, if you are itching for an upgrade, chances are that you don't need to upgrade. However, in the remaining cases, you might be chugging along with ancient components that have no place in 2025.

I recently turned a mini PC into a very basic NAS for my home, and I set up my software on top of a basic Windows installation that came with the device. In the article, I warned against using Windows for this kind of project, but that it certainly works for a basic setup if you aren't looking to do too much.

DuckDuckGo started as a search engine and has evolved into a privacy-focused browser that provides a safer online experience. While nowhere near as popular as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, DuckDuckGo offers a viable alternative for security-conscious users who don't want to be tracked or have their personal information sold online.

For years, GIMP has been one of the most well-known free alternatives to Photoshop. But let's be real — while it was powerful, it always felt a little rough around the edges. The interface was clunky; it lacked some crucial features, and it just didn't feel as polished as Photoshop.

US Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States.Newly appointed Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson praised his former boss, the conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as “the most important judge of the last 100 years,” in a memo to agency staff honoring Black History Month. The message, obtained by The Verge and confirmed by the FTC, sheds light on how Ferguson may align himself with Thomas — one of the court’s foremost critics of tech’s legal liability shield Section 230 and a skeptic of diversity measures — especially as the FTC chair is tasked with taking on consumer protection cases, which in the past have included considering the role of racial bias in technology.In the February 7th email, Ferguson took the opportunity to share his thoughts on Thomas, whom he clerked for and calls a friend. Thomas overcame “a difficult upbringing” and later had his views on the law “pilloried by American elites,” according to Ferguson. Rather than “hold grudges against America” for his experience of poverty and segregation, Ferguson says, Thomas pulled himself up by his bootstraps and proved that “any American can overcome the hardships of the past and achieve greatness.” More recentl …Read the full story at The Verge.