Wi-Fi is faster than ever before, but that speed comes with a cost in terms of range. If you've been noticing connectivity issues, like dead zones, drop-outs, or sluggishly slow sites when browsing, you're probably wondering how to extend your Wi-Fi coverage at the minimum cost. While moving your router to a more central location is an option, it's not always possible. You could also pick up a Wi-Fi extender to rebroadcast your existing Wi-Fi network, but that's throwing good money after bad, in my experience. It's better to upgrade to a mesh network, which will give you better Wi-Fi coverage and handle your devices better so you're not left frustrated waiting for pages to load.

Webcams are more important than ever as videocalls and online meetings have become the norm of the past few years. With that said, you don't want to be caught out there with terrible resolution video since your webcam isn't up to the task, which is where buying a better one from a third party can come in handy. Of course, if you're looking for good quality, then it's going to be a bit more costly, with 4K webcams easily costing over $200.

Adobe Photoshop is arguably one of the best image editing and graphic design software available. It allows you to do everything, from creating composites, mockups, and logos, to designing advertisements. However, while you're working in Photoshop, there might be times when you need to undo something, like a tweak that didnt look right or a change that messed up your design. Well walk you through the different ways to undo something in Photoshop, whether youre working on a Windows computer or one of our favorite Macs.

Apple announced a new set of AirPods Max during its event last week, updating them with USB-C and in a new set of colors. The switch to USB-C is a welcome one, to be sure, but Apple changed nothing else about them. And that feels weird, right? What gives?Apple’s high-end luxury headphones were impressive when they launched in 2020. They had all the features of the AirPods Pro and made clever use of the Apple Watch’s digital crown for volume control. They also sounded fantastic — still do, in fact! But the rest of the market didn’t sit still; alternatives from Sony, Bose, and more recently, Sonos, all offer comparable features and sound — most notably, they each compete with the AirPods Max when it comes to noise cancellation (Bose does... Continue reading…

Image: Warner Bros. Pictures It may have been delayed until next year, but at least we now have our first look at Mickey 17. The debut trailer for the sci-fi film — which is helmed by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho and stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes — premiered Tuesday evening. According to the trailer’s description, Barnes “has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.” The movie is based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton, about “a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim.” The book follows the seventh incarnation of the titular Mickey, but it appears in the movie he dies quite a few more times. In addition... Continue reading…

Hundreds of thousands of people rely on Discord to talk to one another, but not everyone knows that the popular messaging app does not use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to keep their data safe. This level of encryption is popular among messaging apps to stop prying eyes from reading your messages, but Discord didn't seem too pressed to add encoding to your media. Now, the company has finally added encryption to calls and messages, meaning that all of those memes you posted in the general chat are now safe from malicious agents.

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images After a disclaimer that nothing we’d hear tonight is financial or legal advice, followed by a 40-minute interview with former President Donald Trump — which touched on the apparent attempt on his life at a Florida golf course, the border, the “evil forces” conspiring against him, and his granddaughter’s foreign language skills — and subsequent conversations with Trump’s sons and associates, the X Space dedicated to announcing Trump’s “crypto platform” more or less got to the point.The goal of World Liberty Financial, Trump’s new decentralized finance project, is to drive “the mass adoption of stablecoins and decentralized finance,” according to a statement posted on its X account earlier this month. But over the course of the lengthy... Continue reading…

I'm a big gamer, and I always have been. One of my favorite consoles of all time is the Nintendo 3DS, thanks to its great OS and its backward compatibility with the excellent catalog of Nintendo DS games. The system got better with time as well, thanks to the work the community put into modding it and developing an incredible modding scene. While the device is officially end of life with all of its wireless services shut, I'd argue that the Nintendo 3DS is still a better system today than pretty much all of the gaming handhelds out there.

Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge iOS 18 has a new feature that lets you wirelessly restore an iPhone 16 using another iPhone or an iPad, 9to5Mac reports. 9to5Mac says it was able to simulate the new recovery method. “Essentially, when the iPhone 16 enters Recovery Mode for some reason, users can simply place it next to another iPhone or iPad to start the firmware recovery,” according to 9to5Mac. “The other device will download a new iOS firmware and transfer it to the bricked device.”Apparently, any device on iOS 18 can do the restoration, but only the iPhone 16 lineup of phones can actually be restored using this method. You can already use an iPhone to wirelessly restore an Apple Watch or an Apple TV, so it’s nice to see a similar feature come to the iPhone, too.i... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s official: Amazon’s second Prime Day event of the year will take place at the beginning of October. The two-day shopping event — which Amazon is calling Prime Big Deal Days for the second year in a row — will begin at 12:01AM PT / 3:01AM ET on Tuesday, October 8th, and run through Wednesday, October 9th, the company announced on Tuesday.Like last year, Amazon is running the 48-hour promo in an attempt to jumpstart the holiday shopping season, giving Amazon Prime members another chance outside of Prime Day proper to save on everything from home goods to everyday essentials. Although we typically see the lowest sale prices during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Amazon’s fall sale often provides solid deals on a range of tech, including... Continue reading…

With the artificial intelligence sector continuing to thrive, weve seen plenty of creativity and productivity-oriented apps add AI-powered features to their arsenal of tools and services. This includes the ultra-useful generative fill facility Adobe integrated into Photoshop back in 2023. If youre unfamiliar with this game-changing feature, generative fill leverages the Adobe Firefly model to simplify the process of editing images. Besides allowing you to switch backgrounds, generative fill lets you add and even delete entire objects from a photo!

Setapp Mobile is now available in open beta in the EU following invite-only testing. | Image: Setapp The Setapp Mobile alternative app store is now available in open beta for iPhone users in the European Union, featuring 50 different productivity- and lifestyle-focused apps at launch. While most of these apps, like the Tripsy itinerary planner and MindNode mind mapping tool, are already available on the official iOS App Store, Setapp creator MacPaw says its own platform provides a simplified user experience and a fair, performance-based compensation model for app developers.Setapp was originally released as an app marketplace for macOS before the company launched a mobile version for iOS users. Setapp Mobile launched as a closed beta in May, shortly after the European Union’s Digital Markets Act forced Apple to start allowing iPhones... Continue reading…