ePaper smart displays in the Home Assistant world have never had a hardware problem. The reTerminal E-series, Waveshare's ESP32 ePaper boards, M5Paper, and the LilyGO T5 lineup have all been on shelves for years, and you can pick up a panel with a microcontroller already attached for cheap. What there hasn't really been is a firmware and integration story that ties any of it together cleanly. OpenEpaperLink got the closest, but you were still flashing an access point, dealing with vendor-specific Arduino sketches in some instances, or writing your own ESPHome configuration and skipping a "standard" entirely.

In late 2025, Google started rolling out new icons with a gradient design. Now it seems the new look is coming to the rest of Google's apps. 9to5Google got its hands on images of the new icons that ditch the uniform circle design that tries to cram in every color of the Google logo. In general, the looks are softer. Corners are rounder, the gradients gently transition from almost pastel to the more saturated Google primary colors. We've already seen this new design language show in updated versions of the Google G logo, as well as Gemini, Photos, and Maps. According to 9to5, this represents the presence of AI-powered features.The new ico …Read the full story at The Verge.

Skylight’s color-coded smart calendar supports two-way syncing with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple’s iCloud calendar, among others. | Image: Skylight When you’re juggling more than just your own calendar, staying organized can be overwhelming. Fortunately, the Skylight Calendar 2 can help simplify things by syncing multiple calendars in a single spot, and now through May 7th, it’s available directly from Skylight for $259.99 ($40 off), its best price to date.Skylight Calendar 2Where to Buy: $299.99 $259.99 at SkylightSkylight’s 15-inch smart calendar improves upon the original with a brighter screen, faster performance, and a slimmer design with swappable magnetic frames. Otherwise, though, it offers the same core experience, making it easy for the whole family to see events at a glance, whether you mount it on a wall or place it on a kitchen counter using the included adjustable stand. It automatically syncs with Google, Apple, Yahoo, Outlook, and Cozi calendars, pulling them into a single shared space that updates automatically. Each household member gets their own color, too, so it’s easy to keep track of who’s doing what.In addition to event planning, the Calendar 2 makes it easier to arrange and assign other day-to-day tasks. You can create and manage shared chore charts, grocery lists, and to-do lists directly on the touchscreen device or through the mobile app for Android and iOS, which makes it easy for everyone in your household to stay on track and contribute. Skylight also provides detailed weather forecasts for your events, so you know what to expect before heading out.If you subscribe to Skylight’s Calendar Plus plan, the Calendar 2 takes even more of the work off your plate. You can forward emails, upload PDFs, or snap photos of flyers and automatically turn them into calendar events. You also get meal planning tools that let you plan breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks for the week, as well as the ability to assign chores and reward kids for completing them. Plus, just for fun, there’s a screensaver mode that turns the display into an ad hoc digital photo frame when it’s not actively being used as a calendar.

NotebookLM is a powerful utility that has found a permanent home in the workspaces of researchers, students, consultants, and other "knowledge workers" alike. It's reliable and trustworthy, since all of its responses are grounded strictly in user-provided data. There really was no doubt it would become one of user's favorite data analysis utilities, primarily because it makes it so effortless.

President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference while flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin at the White House on April 25, 2026. | Nathan Howard/Getty Images. Within hours of an armed gunman's attempt to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner, attended by top administration officials and hundreds of journalists, President Donald Trump did what he does best: use the assassination attempt to defend his ballroom project. During a White House press conference just hours after he and several cabinet members were evacuated, Trump told reporters that the Washington Hilton, the hotel where the WHCD historically takes place, was "not a particularly secure building. And I didn't want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we're planning at the White House. It's act …Read the full story at The Verge.

It feels like for the past decade, Samsung TV owners have had two choices: use the often clunky Smart View, which only those that truly love Galaxy phones use, or sacrifice an HDMI port and a USB power outlet for a Chromecast dongle. However, recent news indicates that, in a massive 2026 software pivot, Samsung has added native Google Cast support to all 2026 models and is bringing the feature to 2024 and 2025 TVs, as well as select 2023 televisions, via a Tizen OS update.

Before Coachella, Tomora wasn't on my radar at all. It's actually only by chance that I stumbled upon them - I opened the wrong stream because my TV was lagging like a MFer. I paused for a few moments, entranced by the two ethereal Nordic women banging on giant drums to a techno beat. I made a mental note to check them out the following weekend, because Drain was the priority (especially since the Sonora stage wasn't streaming on weekend two). It was only later that I would find out that Tomora is a collaboration between Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora and Tom Rowlands, one-half of the Chemical Brothers.Suffice it to say, they were incr …Read the full story at The Verge.

Some relevant reading. In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn't scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids' school on extremely short notice. There's a reason it's taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.It didn't take long for my Linux install to stop feeling new and exciting and start feeling …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I first got used to Linux, I had a real rollercoaster moment with the terminal. At first, I was terrified of it; I thought I was one superuser command away from wiping my operating system. Then, once I had gained confidence in using it, I wanted to use it all the time. I installed apps with it, edited files with it, the full kit.

This past month, my rig went through a significant GPU swap. I really like my RX 9070 XT in terms of its performance, and for the price, it's difficult to beat when compared to other cards in the price range, and I didn't have any plans to switch to another card. That was, until, Nvidia all but confirmed that no new RTX cards would be coming down the pipeline for 2026; the first time in about 3 decades that Nvidia hasn't released a new gaming GPU in a 1-year span.

Europe has been on a slow, steady push towards digital sovereignty for a while now, and a lot of that push ends up pointing at the same handful of tools. Nextcloud is the obvious example, sitting somewhere between Google Drive and a full collaboration suite for anyone who wants to self-host. On top of that, Nextcloud has historically leaned on OnlyOffice to handle in-browser document editing, and for the better part of eight years, that arrangement more or less worked.

Upgrading to Wi-Fi 7 feels like it will solve all of your networking problems. Let's say you've just unboxed a flagship Wi-Fi 7 router, and your phone also shows the 7 icon; yet for some reason, your downloads are still peaking at the same speeds as your old Wi-Fi 6 setup. What's actually going on?