If you're a longtime Windows user, chances are you've likely used apps that are long gone. Some may remind you of a time when the name of a long-forgotten app may bring a wave of nostalgia or a repressed sense of dread for others. Yet, it could be argued that plenty of these useful apps were simply ahead of their time.

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Tech billionaire Elon Musk gave a $1 million check to an audience member at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he’s been Trump-stumping, on Saturday. And he said he will continue to give that prize to one random voter per day until the Presidential election on November 5th. The move could very well break US election law.Only people who have signed a petition from Musk’s America PAC are eligible for the sweepstakes-style offer. And only registered voters are eligible to sign the petition. According to its terms, Musk will give $1 million to someone in Pittsburgh today, but will later expand to anyone living in swing states like Georgia, Nevada, or Arizona. It’s against federal law to impel anyone to vote or get registered to... Continue reading…

There are quite a few benefits that come with refining the skill of typing, and that goes for people of all ages. Kids and adults alike can improve and maintain their fine motor skills by typing. However, most keyboards even some of the best keyboards on the market are designed in a way that can cause wrist, hand, and forearm discomfort and pain. That's where great ergonomic keyboards come into play. They're designed with the human body in mind, and hope to help users find a natural, comfortable, and pain-free typing experience.

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge For many a year, Windows users have been dragging their program windows over to the borders of the screen to snap them into position, splitting the screen up evenly into halves or quarters. Now, with the rollout of macOS Sequoia, Mac users can do the same. You can get a Spotify playlist up alongside your email inbox, for example, or a report you’re writing up alongside the online articles you’re reporting on. It means less switching between windows and more information on the screen.Once you’ve got macOS Sequoia installed on your Mac, you can take advantage of what Apple calls window tiling. There are several methods you can use.Use the green buttonMove the cursor up to the green zoom button to the left of any open window.A choice... Continue reading…

Whether you're trying to protect your privacy, access your services, or avoid geographical restrictions when traveling, a VPN is one of the best upgrades you can make to your tech life. There are plenty of ways to set up a VPN at home, but if you're looking for a more classic OpenVPN or WireGuard setup, DDNS can help. A home VPN with dynamic DNS (DDNS) offers a secure way to access your resources remotely without opening up security vulnerabilities, and without worrying about constantly changing home IP addresses.

It’s time to dust off your VCR and clean the heads, because Alien: Romulus is coming to VHS as a limited edition on December 3rd alongside the other physical releases, director Fede Alvarez announced during “a special Beyond Fest-partnered screening” in Los Angeles yesterday. The “fully functioning VHS tape” is meant to celebrate 45 years since the Alien franchise first (chest) burst into theaters, 20th Century Studios wrote in a release emailed to The Verge. It’ll present the movie, appropriately, in a 4:3 aspect ratio (hopefully with well-done pan-and-scan). It also comes in a slick, vintage-style sleeve. Image: 20th Century Studios Has anyone seen my composite cables? The art for the box comes from Matt... Continue reading…

Michelle Yeoh is back in Trek. | Screenshot: YouTube Star Trek: Section 31 will premiere as a direct-to-streaming movie on January 24th on Paramount Plus, which revealed the date during a Trek panel at the New York Comic Con. Fans will finally see Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek: Discovery character, Emperor Philippa Georgiou, put her Mirrorverse skills to use as a super secret space spy.When we last saw Emperor Georgiou (an alternate dimension version of Captain Georgiou Discovery’s first season) she was flung back in time by a being called the Guardian of Forever. Before that, though, she had been recruited as a member of Section 31, the clandestine organization that the Trek franchise often uses to illustrate that even the glossy Federation has a shady side.The film, originally announced a... Continue reading…

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge For the last eight months, David Cogen has been living a double life. By day: a YouTuber and creator, the face of TheUnlockr, reviewing phones and testing ebikes and explaining how food smokers really work. By night and morning and every single other available moment in between: a coffee shop entrepreneur, working to get a Brooklyn spot called Coffee Check up and running. The whole thing started late last year and escalated quickly. He needed a new workspace after his previous lease ended, had a business idea for it that didn’t quite pan out, decided to repurpose his new space into a coffee roastery, and then realized there was a front door to the street. Why not open a cafe, too?Coffee Check has been open since late August, and on the... Continue reading…

Amazon is one of the biggest online retailers in the world, and with the holiday season fast approaching, you'll very likely be scouring the web to find good deals on products you want to pick up for yourself or others. That's why price tracking is important, as some products will go on sale quickly and then immediately go back up after a certain number have been bought. That's why I built an Amazon price tracker, so that I can keep an eye on the best deals for certain products that I'm looking to pick up.

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Sometimes you just want to share a file with someone. You're not really bothered with creating an account on a website, or setting up a cloud storage service; you just want to get the file online, get the link, and post it where it's needed. Fortunately, someone has made a third-party app that makes uploading a file on Windows easy and without the need to log into anything.

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Early this morning, I received an email from “The Internet Archive Team,” replying to a message I’d sent on October 9th. Except its author doesn’t seem to have been the digital archivists’ support team — it was apparently written by the hackers who breached the site earlier this month and who evidently maintain some level of access to its systems.I’m not alone. Users on the Internet Archive subreddit are reporting getting the replies, as well. Here is the message I received:It’s dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach 2 weeks ago, IA has still not done the due diligence of rotating many of the API keys that were exposed in their gitlab secrets.As demonstrated by this message, this includes a Zendesk token... Continue reading…