NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/06/29: Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press briefing at office on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. | Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images New York governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark climate legislation into law last week, showing how states can keep holding polluters accountable even when President-elect Donald Trump rolls back environmental protections.New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act will require the biggest multinational oil and gas companies to contribute to a fund that’ll be used for infrastructure projects meant to protect New York residents from increasingly dangerous climate disasters like storms and sea level rise. “New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world”Trump will soon step back into office and is expected to dismantle existing climate policies and gut the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), having openly disparaged clean energy and federal environmental regulations on the campaign trail. So for the next four years at least, Americans will have to rely on local and state efforts like this to deal with the pollution from fossil fuels that’s causing climate change. “New York has fired a shot that will be heard round the world: the companies most responsible for the climate crisis will be held accountable,” State Senator Liz Krueger said in a statement after Hochul... Read the full story at The Verge.

With Windows 11 slowly receiving more and more ads across its system, people are getting a little tired of seeing new ones pop up. Over the past few days, some users have spotted ad pop-ups advertising the new Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and the paid Microsoft Defender security app. Fortunately, Microsoft has cleared up this little mess by stating that these aren't ads at all but instead "giving the people the option to purchase" a product. Phew. Well, that clears that up, doesn't it?

This is one of the best ultrawide monitors that you can buy right now. Not only are you getting plenty of screen real estate at 34 inches, but you're also getting rich colors with its QD-OLED panel, along with fantastic performance as well. While this monitor has a retail price of $900, it can now be had for far less with a superb discount that knocks nearly $350 off, falling to $552 for a limited time.

Buying a motherboard can be a daunting task if you’re a novice PC builder. Even for those who are more experienced, if you’ve been out of the loop for a while, it can be tough to get back up to speed. AMD certainly weren’t helping matters when they refreshed their AM5 motherboard lineup with the launch of Zen 5. The segmentation between each chipset type is a bit murky, and you wouldn’t be blamed for not understanding the difference between an X870 and an X670 motherboard. While this isn’t a full breakdown of what each chipset is capable of, here are five ways you can make choosing an AM5 motherboard less confusing.

The 17-inch LG Gram Pro weighs 3.3 pounds while the 16-inch model weighs 2.73 pounds. | Image: LG LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device AI-powered features that go beyond its current Gram laptops.The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished as the only model using the Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors. The 17-inch Gram Pro and 16-inch 2-in-1 use Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra H-Series processors. Image: LG The three LG Gram Pro laptops, including the 2-in-1. The LG Gram Pro will be available in 17-inch and 16-inch models featuring 2,560 x 1,600 displays, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and up to 2TB Gen4 NVMe SSDs. The 16-inch Gram Pro and the 16-inch LG Gram Pro 2-in-1 will have Intel Arc GPUs, while the 17-inch Gram Pro will instead feature an Nvidia GeForce RTX4050 graphics card.Gram Chat On-Device, which uses a “small language model derived from LG AI Research’s EXAONE large language model,” powers offline features, including Time Travel, which lets users quickly revisit “web pages, documents, videos and audio files” they’ve recently accessed. LG’s software is adding tools similar to Microsoft’s Copilot Plus suite and Apple Intelligence, but given the trouble Microsoft has had with Recall, we’ll have to wait and see how it all measures up. It also might make those features available on more PCs, but LG hasn’t specified which AI features will be available on which laptops in the new Gram lineup.Gram Chat Cloud is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o and responds to inquiries using “vast web-based datasets for detailed and comprehensive responses” while integrating with calendar and email services. It requires an active internet connection and will only be free for the first year.All of the new Gram laptops also support LG’s Gram Link 2.0, which streamlines document and file sharing with other PCs and iOS or Android-based smartphones. It also allows incoming phone calls to be answered through the Gram laptops, so you don’t have to swap headsets or Bluetooth headphones to another device temporarily.LG will also introduce its entry-level Gram Book to the US market next year. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, it features a 15.6-inch 60Hz full HD display, a 720p webcam, and configurations of up to 1TB of SSD storage and 16GB of DDR4 memory.

The motherboard takes a full-size 24-pin ATX power link from the power supply, which handles most functions on the PC. Still, there's also a dedicated central processing unit (CPU) connection, usually located in the top-left, between the voltage regulator modules (VRMs) and rear I/O. Sometimes, you'll see more than two headers, consisting of an 8-pin and 4-pin or two 8-pin links. The question is; do you need to use all available headers or would using the standard 8-pin setup suffice for most PC builds and for the system to run stable?

Apple's MacBook Air has been one of our favorite laptops over the past few years. It offers the perfect balance when it comes to portability, design and performance. Of course, they're also quite pricey as well, starting at $1,000.

Although Google Chrome is the most widely used browser, it’s far from the best. There are many better alternatives, like Brave and Firefox, that make you wonder why Chrome remains so popular. Even Microsoft Edge, the default browser on Windows PCs, isn’t too bad. I’ve been using it for work for quite some time now and have found it to be quite useful, especially when it comes to tab management.

If you're heading to CES 2025, you might want to pop a head into the LG section. The company has only just announced that one of its monitors has already won three awards including "Best in Innovation," and the event hasn't even started yet. Now, LG is back with yet another medal, this time for its laptops.

Ever wanted to add a subtle depth effect to the subjects in your photos? You’re not alone. Although smartphones with telephoto lenses let you do just that with ease nowadays, photos taken with the main and ultrawide cameras still can’t reproduce shallow depth of field very well. That’s exactly when photo-editing apps like Adobe Photoshop come in handy.

One of the more frustrating errors you may encounter on your Windows PC is “Some settings are managed by your organization.” You generally see it in the Settings app while checking for Windows updates. Now, this error notification is perfectly acceptable if you use a managed PC at work or school. But should you see it when you’re the sole owner of your Windows computer? Unlikely.

Hugo Herrera / The Verge The US Treasury Department suffered a “major” security incident after a China state-sponsored hacker broke into the third-party remote management software it uses, as reported earlier by The New York Times.In a letter to lawmakers seen by The Verge, the Treasury Department said BeyondTrust, the company behind its remote management software, notified the agency of a breach on December 8th.The threat actor stole a key used by BeyondTrust “to secure a cloud-based service used to remotely provide technical support for Treasury Departmental Offices (DO) end users.” With the key, they overrode the security to remotely access those users' workstations and “some unclassified documents” they maintained.The Treasury Department said it worked with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI following the attack, which has been attributed to a China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) hacker. “The compromised BeyondTrust service has been taken offline and there is no evidence indicating the threat actor has continued access to Treasury systems or information,” US Treasury Department spokesperson Michael Gwin said in a statement to The Verge.The attack seems to be linked to a security incident BeyondTrust disclosed earlier this month, impacting customers using its remote support software. At the time, BeyondTrust attributed the attack to a compromised API key for its remote support software, adding that it “immediately revoked the API key, notified known impacted customers, and suspended those instances the same day.” The Verge reached out to BeyondTrust with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.“Treasury takes very seriously all threats against our systems, and the data it holds,” Gwin said. “Over the last four years, Treasury has significantly bolstered its cyber defense, and we will continue to work with both private and public sector partners to protect our financial system from threat actors.”