Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge For so many years, the Evernote elephant was a truly iconic logo. Evernote was one of the first productivity apps to embrace smartphones, to enable cross-platform sync, and to make it really easy to store and create almost anything. And so Evernote was huge.But Peak Evernote was roughly a decade ago. Since then, the product has often felt stagnant (or worse), the company churned through executives and business plans, and it seemed like Evernote was slowly turning into a zombie app. Not gone, not even forgotten, just sort of... there.In 2022, when Bending Spoons acquired the company and soon after laid off nearly all its staff, millions of Evernote users were confused about what the future held for the tool they had relied on for so... Continue reading…

Home lab setups are often characterized by powerful server PCs that possess an obscene number of CPU cores and enough memory to make a RAM-starved MacBook user faint in disbelief. But you can look into more budget-friendly, space-efficient, and low-power devices to house your containers and VMs when youre just starting out.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 52, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, I swear I don’t always just share absurdly expensive gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Chappell Roan and college football and the problem with pennies, watching Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist and Jennifer Garner’s delightful AD home tour, taking copious notes on Ben Thompson’s newslettering process, making surprisingly great bread with a random recipe from Reddit, and trying out Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold.I also have for you some expensive but excellent new gadgets, a couple of great new tech podcasts, the best pause music... Continue reading…

Image: Nilay Patel Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone — a $20 jump over its older fee. The price remains the same for the standard and “Plus” models, as do those for last year’s phones, as MacRumors notes.The company doesn’t seem to have started charging more for other battery replacements yet, but it wouldn’t be unexpected. In 2022, Apple drove the cost of iPhone 14 battery service up by $30 to $99. Increases for iPad, MacBook, and older iPhone battery repairs came after that, and Apple Watches followed suit later. (One longs for the salad days of battery drama-induced $29 battery replacements!)Defective batteries are covered... Continue reading…

Image: Hungry Eyes Film & Television R.T. Thorne’s postapocalyptic thriller frames farming and community as the keys to humanity’s survival after society collapses. Continue reading…

Image: Goblinz Publishing Shogun Showdown sometimes breaks my brain. The new deckbuilding roguelike is all about tactics, and a key part of the game is that you can always see what the enemies plan to do next. Every once in a while, that gets me in a quandary where I know I’ll lose. But when things click into place and I clear everyone out in one fell swoop, I feel like a strategic genius. In the game, which just left early access, you’re constantly trying to position your character across a small level to either attack your foes or dodge their moves. As you play, you can upgrade your “tiles” (think: cards) to improve their damage, add perks like freezing ice, or lower their cooldown so that you can use them more frequently. You’re also able to stack up to... Continue reading…

One of the hardest things about traveling is getting used to the time zone difference. Most of our devices nowadays update the time zone automatically when you arrive in a different region, but Windows 11 PCs aren't quite there yet.

The new take on Flappy Bird will include alternate game modes. | Screenshot: The Flappy Bird Foundation Last week, The Flappy Bird Foundation announced a game called Flappy Bird. But while the group has been framing it as the triumphant return of a classic mobile game, Flappy Bird’s original developer, Dong Nguyen isn’t calling it a comeback — in fact, he says he’s not involved at all.Nguyen posted as much on X (for the first time since 2017!) this morning, saying he didn’t “sell anything.” The Flappy Bird Foundation wrote in the announcement it shared with press last week that it had “acquired the rights from Gametech Holdings, LLC,” which had secured the trademark from Nguyen, but it doesn’t appear as though that was the result of any dealings between him and the group.No, I have no related with their game. I did not sell anything. I... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Instagram might roll out a way to share comments on other Instagram posts to Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find coming features.Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new dropdown menu that lets users choose to share the comment only to Instagram or “also share on Threads.” Meta has made a few moves to integrate Threads with its other platforms in the past, such as showing Threads posts on Instagram or Facebook (and, later, letting users opt out of that). The Twitter-like short-posting social network also lacks DMs of its own, but users can still receive or send messages through Instagram. The bigger effort, of... Continue reading…

macOS Sequoia, and earlier versions of macOS, come with a collection of default apps that help you with productivity, note-taking, and much more. Great first-party apps are one of the better reasons to pick up a high-end Mac over a comparable Windows PC. In fact, I think some default macOS apps are underutilized, like the Preview app. Another huge perk of using the macOS defaults is that they're free, forever. Meanwhile, on other operating systems such as Windows 11 and ChromeOS, things like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace can require subscriptions.

Have you been keeping up to date with what's happening with HaLow? If you haven't, HaLow is a new technology designed to push Wi-Fi signals as far as they can go for some serious long-distance signals. The last time we saw HaLow in the news, it had set a record by maintaining a 1Mbps connection from 1.8 miles away. Now, Morse Micro has revealed that it has achieved a 2Mbps connection at 9.9 miles away, which sets a new world record for the longest-distance Wi-Fi connection.

As Chrome continues to lead the pack for browser market share, Microsoft has been hard at work trying to make Edge a viable contender. We already feel that Microsoft Edge has the best tab management on a desktop, but Microsoft seems to want to take its browser even further. Now, a new feature has been spotted on the Edge Canary branch that allows users to upload, edit, and share images using Designer without ever leaving Edge.