Once you've sorted through all the top laptops, particularly the best HP machines, and landed on an EliteBook, next you are probably scrolling through the best docks. Luckily, we're here to help with a list of docking stations that are perfect for HP's EliteBook 1040 G11.

There are many 67W chargers out there, but few are as adorable as Sharge’s travel-friendly Retro 67. Earlier this week, we published a guide rounding up an assortment of last-minute Father’s Day gifts for those who celebrate. However, if you need a Hail Mary and your dad is the nostalgic type with a penchant for all things Apple, the Sharge Retro 67 is currently on sale for an all-time low of $39 ($30 off) at Amazon and direct from Sharge.In February, my colleague Sean Hollister penned a personal ode to the Sharge’s three-port USB-C PD and PPS charger (and for good reason). The palm-sized Retro 67 measures 2.2 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches — which is relatively small for what it offers — and can output 67 watts from a single UL-certified port or 45 watts via the primary port while supplying 20 watts across the remaining two. That’s enough juice... Continue reading…

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple will finally adopt RCS in iOS 18, effectively ending a yearslong fight for feature parity between iMessage and Android. But the announcement wasn’t a celebration — you could’ve blinked and missed it. Instead of showing how RCS will make things better, Apple softly announced support for the standard and focused on all the great features coming to iMessage users — not RCS ones.Apple didn’t go over how RCS adoption will finally let iPhone and Android users send each other high-resolution pictures and videos. It didn’t even say how RCS will enable support for cross-platform read receipts and typing indicators. Apple only highlighted the flashy features coming to iMessage, including ways to bold and italicize text, improvements to... Continue reading…

The Philips Hue Twilight lamp. | Image: Smartlights.de Philips Hue’s next smart bedside lamp will reportedly be called the “Twilight.” The lamp will feature two buttons on top for power, scene selection, and sleep automation, and it also has LEDs in the back that will feature a sunrise or sunset effect, according to HueBlog.com.The rear LED and main light, like the Hue Dymera’s top and bottom lights, will apparently be individually controllable, and when triggering its sleep automation, the site says it will simulate a sunset before turning off. It’s not clear yet when — or for how much — Philips will release the Twilight. Image: HueBlog.com HueBlog published leaked images earlier this week that show the lamp’s odd, fixed lampshade. It will apparently come in black or... Continue reading…

Insta360 is best known for its popular X series of 360 cameras, but the Shenzhen-based tech firm is looking to conquer the more competitive action camera field too. Just six months after launching its large-sensored Ace Pro action camera, Insta360 has just announced the Go 3S, a modular action camera in which the camera part can detach from its body. It's a clever little gadget that offers a wide range of shooting options. Those who like to document their daily life in creative ways with a highly portable camera will find plenty to like here, but if you are shooting just conventional videos, then there are plenty of other action cameras that are either cheaper or capture even better footage, like the company's own Ace Pro.

Got a broken arm? Just play Toss-Up! | Screenshot: YouTube Nintendo is a gaming juggernaut today, but it wasn’t really on anyone’s radar in the United States in 1980. And what was possibly the first US commercial for hardware produced by the company — a handheld called Toss-Up, from its “Game & Watch” series — certainly didn’t help, as a newly-restored copy shows. That’s because there’s no mention of Nintendo at all, or even Game & Watch.Game & Watch games were simplistic standalone handheld LCD games not unlike the cheap licensed Tiger Electronics games seemingly every kid had in the 1990s. And in the US, those games were initially licensed to a company called Mego (pronounced “mee-go”), and sold as a series called “Time-Out” instead, according to The Video Game History Foundation in a blog... Continue reading…

PC building is rarely an exercise in solitude. Nearly every PC builder is influenced by the builds they've seen in the community, picking up something or the other as inspiration for their own project. While this is undoubtedly great for getting visual and performance ideas, there are some downsides as well.

The reports have been popping up for years, and while they were dismissed early on, it became abundantly clear recently that there was something wrong with Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs. When it all came to a head, Intel didn't have an answer and pushed the blame towards motherboard manufacturers for running its CPUs out of spec. Intel even went as far as telling them to get their boards into compliance.

There was plenty of speculation about Apple potentially collaborating with OpenAI or Google to provide an artificial intelligence chatbot on its next-generation platforms. Some thought that Apple would never do it, and to be fair, it has been quite a while since we've seen a partnership as big as the one Apple and OpenAI enjoined. As the companies announced at WWDC 2024, ChatGPT will be integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia. Interestingly enough, no money is exchanging hands, at least for now. Bloomberg reports that Apple is "paying" OpenAI through exposure. But this is far from the first time Apple struck a blockbuster deal to outsource a feature on one of its products.

This should fold in half. It just should. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Folding an iPad in half is a very bad idea if you want to keep using your iPad. But hear me out: it should fold in half. Why? Because it would make an absolute banger of a folding phone.First of all, what’s even going on here anyway? The Pro iPhones have more processing power than they know what to do with. The iPad Pro is an incredible computer that nobody can use as a computer. The iPad Mini still exists (TIL airplane pilots love the iPad Mini), the iPad Air is heavier than the iPad Pro, and Apple can’t figure out what to do with the non-standard-sized iPhone. There are entirely too many SKUs, and I think Apple can condense, like, four of them down into one category-straddling product.I’m thinking of something like an iPad Mini that... Continue reading…

It's safe to say that the market for great PC gaming handhelds has absolutely exploded over the last few years. If that wasn't true before, it's definitely true following Computex 2024, which brought tons of weird and cool tech products. Even though the gaming handheld market is starting to get crowded, we saw four new devices announced at Computex. There are refreshed models, like the Asus ROG Ally X and MSI Claw AI 8 Plus. On top of that, there are all-new handhelds, including the Zotac Zone and the Adata XPG NIA. Are any of these actually worth caring about, or are the reliable ROG Ally and Steam Deck OLED still the two best options? To help you sift through the noise, we've ranked every PC gaming handheld announced at Computex from worst to best.

One of the affected Intel processors. | Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge For months, Intel’s highest-end desktop gaming processors have had a strange tendency to occasionally make games crash — and despite what you might have seen earlier today, Intel says it doesn’t have a final fix for its 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 “Raptor Lake” and “Raptor Lake S” chips just yet.“Contrary to recent media reports, Intel has not confirmed root cause and is continuing, with its partners, to investigate user reports regarding instability issues on unlocked Intel Core 13th and 14th generation (K/KF/KS) desktop processors,” reads a statement via Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford. It continues: “The microcode patch referenced in press reports fixes an eTVB bug discovered by Intel while investigating the instability... Continue reading…