Acclaimed Japanese director Sho Miyake has arrived in the States. He's brought with him two feature films: Small, Slow But Steady and Two Seasons, Two Strangers, a pair of naturalistic portraits that deal with the uneasy human desire to relate to other people. Seclusion and unease are bedrocks to Miyake's growing filmography. "I like these characters that have a sense of discomfort that slowly starts to distance them from society," he tells The Verge.I first saw Small, Slow But Steady at New Directors/New Films (lowkey one of the better film festivals New York has to offer). It's an affectionate story of a deaf boxer, Keiko (Yukino Kishii), …Read the full story at The Verge.

My workflow with AI always followed a tedious, predictable rhythm: find the document, copy the relevant text, paste it into a chat window, and take relevant action. It worked, but it always felt like I was doing the heavy lifting.

Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they've done so for years. Together with Google, they've shaped our sense of what a smartphone is and what it can do, pushing the boundaries of mobile photography, software, and processing power. But over the last few years, they've sat back, content to iterate rather than innovate - and in the interim, China's tech giants have plowed ahead. Now a gulf is growing between the phones on sale in the US and those available in the rest of the world. US phone buyers are missing out.Some of the blame for that gap lies with Apple. Where it goes, the market follows, and in recent years it's gone s …Read the full story at The Verge.

A couple of years ago, when I was working on my Raspberry Pi 5, I noticed that it was very slow. I googled possible reasons, and the main one was its lack of RAM. It has 4 gigs of RAM, but I noticed that running multiple Chromium tabs made it run at a snail's pace. So, I looked for ways to increase the RAM. Given that I was using an SD Card as a hard drive, using a swap file wasn't really an option. However, I found a program called ZRAM and promptly installed it from the Pi-Apps app store. I found it increased my performance by a sizeable amount when running many apps. ZRAM improved my performance when running multiple apps, is easy to install, and doesn't require any extra hardware, but it does come at the cost of CPU speed.

Upgrading your PC is supposed to feel rewarding, especially after spending hours poring over spec sheets and YouTube reviews to decide on a new CPU, GPU, RAM, or SSD. Every time you install a new part, you expect to feel the difference almost immediately. But if there's anything that I've learned over the past decade chasing newer hardware, it's that not every upgrade works out exactly like you expected. And that's usually when buyer's remorse kicks in.

The evolution of the web browser landscape has been something of a rollercoaster, and it's strange to look at things now and realize that it's so heavily dominated by Google Chrome and its derivatives. Mozilla's Firefox has stood as the last bastion against a monopolistic dominance over the way the internet is shaped, but to many, it just isn't up to snuff for various reasons.

Everything seems to be on a subscription model these days, from the tools we use to the places where we store the documents we create. Maybe that's not surprising since the U.S. market was prepared for this by decades of cable TV pricing, but the drain on the average household's finances is real.

If you've been using Claude Code over the last month or so, you may have noticed that the agent's quality degraded somewhat. It's easy to chalk it up to your imagination, but this time, it's not you; it's Claude Code. Anthropic has published a blog post detailing three areas where Claude Code had degraded performance since March, and how it fixed each one.

Despite enjoying the OS for decades, there was one thing I loathed about Windows. If you wanted to restart your PC or shut it down quickly, but Windows had downloaded an update in the background, you couldn't skip the update and perform the action you wanted to do. Instead, you had to let Windows update itself before it would properly restart or shut down.

It's never a bad idea to have an extra set of eyes to make your home feel more secure. And while there are plenty of options to go with when it comes to security devices, we think a video doorbell is a good first step. If you can grab a wireless camera, that's even better. Of course, buying a couple of items at once can a heavy investment.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 125, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me cereal recommendations, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about NASA seamstresses and friction and Muskism and scooters, highlighting the heck out of Jeff VanderMeer's terrific new short story, listening to the Dissect podcast's new season about Daft Punk, giving Firefox another run as my go-to browser, having my mind blown by amazing music video directors, and nodding along to John Oliver on prediction markets. I've also been dealing wit …Read the full story at The Verge.