People take to a Raspberry Pi in different ways. While some want to make something fun or humorous with them, others want to create a tool that can aid them in their daily lives. If you're in the latter camp, you'll want to check out this cool weather forecast display powered by a Raspberry Pi. Not only does it give you everything you need to know about how it feels outside, but it does so with a sleek e-paper display you can use for other projects.

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge Guess the artist, win five bucks. Whether you’re a random person on the streets of New York, an A-list celebrity, or the sitting Vice President of the United States, that’s the pitch behind one of the most fun music shows on social media. You show up, you get some headphones and a microphone, and you hope you know what song is playing. The show is called Track Star, and it’s hosted by Jack Coyne. On this episode of The Vergecast, the first in our three-part miniseries about the future of music, Coyne joins the show to tell us the story of Track Star. We talk about the show’s beginnings as a trivia show about New York called Public Opinion, how Coyne and his co-creators figured out the show’s structure and pace, how he thinks about his... Continue reading…

Bottlenecking can be a scary word for novice PC builders, conjuring visions of crippled performance and abnormal PC behavior in their minds. However, avoiding bottlenecks when building a gaming PC isn't complicated. The key is to build a balanced PC by not cheaping out where it matters the most.

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 59, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about HotWired and DRAM and Mike Solana, watching The Diplomat, jamming to Dua Lipa’s Tiny Desk concert, trying Smashing for news reading and cool-stuff discovery, testing my bandwidth caps downloading Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and listening to all six hours of the Acquired Meta episode.I also have for you some interesting new AI search products, some new Apple gear, a couple of documentaries to watch this weekend, a calendar app for Windows, and much more.Oh, and thanks to everyone... Continue reading…

This, but blasting demons. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge What do John Deere tractors, Ikea smart bulbs, Lego bricks, and the MacBook Pro Touch Bar have in common? They can all run Doom, and naturally, so can Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo alarm clock. It was only a matter of time before someone pulled that off, but what I didn’t expect was that when it happened, it would be playable.That’s exactly what hacker GaryOberNicht, who recently figured out how to run custom firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or pressing the mushroom-shaped blob on top of the Alarmo to move and pressing the other buttons to shoot or open doors. Here, have a look:Gary said it’s “possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from... Continue reading…

Activists gather in New York City in August 2024. | Photo: Luis Yañez Joe Biden raised hopes that the US would finally plan for climate-displaced migrants. Today, it’s still a glaring hole in climate and immigration policy. Continue reading…

Most self-respecting tech reviewers will tell you that specs and features never tell the whole story of a device. The bleeding edge processors, highest-resolution displays, and buzzworthy features rarely give you a full indication of what the device is like to use every day.

Well, that's that - Halloween 2024 is in the books. I hope you had a lovely time and spent the day doing spooky things with your friends and family. Now that November is here, it's time to think about the family gatherings with Thanksgiving and Christmas now on the horizon. If you've been busy getting ready for the holiday season and missed out on what's going on in the tech world, here's our top five news stories for the past week.

Tech enthusiasts know that finding ways to keep aging hardware out of the landfill is great for the environment even if your daily-driver Mac or PC is in need of an upgrade. That's easier said than done, though. I found a way to buy an old iMac for under $100 for use as an external monitor, until disaster struck. Amid the chaos of my apartment move, I shattered the 2012 iMac's display, and that left me seriously puzzled as to what to do with it. I couldn't fix it, because I could buy two more iMacs for the price of a replacement screen.

It's almost as if AMD and Intel jointly decided to launch disappointing new CPU lineups this year. On the one hand, AMD dropped the ball with the Ryzen 9000 processors, offering minimal gains over its previous-gen Zen 4 chips. On the other hand, the much-awaited Arrow Lake chips from Intel debuted with unexpectedly lackluster results. The Core Ultra 5 245K and Ryzen 5 9600X are currently the most affordable entry points on both these platforms.

Tim Stevens My favorite feature of the new $420,000, all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre isn’t the cosseting ride quality or the illuminated stars embedded in the headliner of the insanely ornate interior. It isn’t the 577 horsepower or the 266 miles of range. It’s neither the “yes, that’s the spot” massaging seats nor the curbside presence of that upright, chromed front grille. It isn’t even the aerodynamically refined yet classically styled Spirit of Ecstasy statuette perched atop.My favorite feature of the Spectre is the sound it makes. As an EV, it doesn’t really make any engine sound on its own. It’s a rolling cocoon made inherently anti-acoustic thanks to the tireless work of some surely big-eared scientists. So, to inject a little more life... Continue reading…

The Elgato Stream Deck was a revolution when it first launched, bringing customizable LED-backed buttons to control livestreaming functions for self-broadcasting simplicity. It's gone through some changes over the years, most notably to the software but also to different form factors and things like the new XLR dock that enables better microphones for stream use. It's easily one of the best peripherals for any PC or Mac user, and an indispensable one for anyone who owns a capture card. But they're not just for streamers, and you can set those customizable buttons to a ton of terrific tools or functions.