If you have just bought a new PC, or you are pressing a spare machine into action for serious audio and video work, you will need to ensure its up to the task at hand. Windows can suffer from audio and visual dropouts or glitches due to system latency. This can ruin the quality of live streams and recordings.

It's no surprise that Raspberry Pi boards make great retro consoles. They're pretty powerful for their size, making them an ideal pick for building your own retro gaming devices that take up very little space. But why leave them lying around as an exposed board when you can make an equally cool shell for them to live in? That's what one SBC tinkerer did with their project, and it's well worth a look if you love all things Pokemon.

Network-attached storage (NAS) comes in all shapes and sizes, some are powered by Intel and AMD x86 processors and others rely on Arm chips. The CPU is a vital component inside the NAS, much like it is with any other electronic device. The more powerful the processor, the faster the server can handle more intensive workloads. You'll also be able to do much more on the same device, limiting how much hardware must be deployed. But if you're looking to save money and power, an Arm-powered NAS can make sense. Here are some reasons to buy one over a NAS with an x86 CPU.

Image: Ford Ford is launching a redesigned version of the largest SUV in its lineup, now including Ford’s brand-new Digital Experience infotainment system. The 2025 Expedition is the second Ford to get the Android Automotive-based system after the new Explorer, but the new SUV’s dashboard and UI look like a chopped-down version of the giant panoramic display first introduced in the 2024 Lincoln Nautilus.The new Expedition, which is first being teased with a drone light show today in Texas, looks like it has only the left half of the Lincoln’s 48-inch pillar-to-pillar panoramic display, leaving behind just a 24-inch panel for the Expedition. You’re getting the same instrument cluster and navigation combo in front of the driver’s seat, but without... Continue reading…

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Many ports along the East and Gulf coasts were shut down, threatening the country’s supply chains, after unionized port workers went on strike on Tuesday. But those workers will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages with the group representing port employers. As part of the agreement on wages, the United States Maritime Alliance has offered to up wages by 62 percent over a six-year contract, The New York Times reports. The two groups still have other issues to negotiate, and they have agreed to extend the “Master Contract” until January 15th, 2025.The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents the workers, and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents their employers, shared a joint... Continue reading…

Remote desktop is a neat feature that lets you access your high-end rigs from another device, like a laptop. So long as you have Internet connectivity on both devices, most operating systems, be it Windows 11 or Linux distros, let you set support remote desktop in some shape or form.

WP Engine said the lawsuit aims to address “abuse of power, extortion, and greed.” | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge The WP Engine web hosting service is suing WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and Automattic for alleged libel and attempted extortion, following a public spat over the WordPress trademark and open-source project. In the federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday, WP Engine accuses both Automattic and its CEO Mullenweg of “abuse of power, extortion, and greed,” and said it seeks to prevent them from inflicting further harm against WP Engine and the WordPress community.WP Engine is a major rival to WordPress.com, with more than 200,000 websites using the service. Mullenweg runs Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, a company that sells a hosted version of the open-source WordPress software — just like WP Engine.The lawsuit was initiated after... Continue reading…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Epic’s game store is finally on mobile. Next up, the company plans to add features that make people want to use it — on both mobile and PC.A key thing Epic Games wants to introduce is what store boss Steve Allison calls a “social framework” — think the types of social and chat features you see on consoles or Steam.“Our social features on PC suck,” Allison says in an interview with The Verge. “Let’s call it what it is.” Social features are the “battery that powers Fortnite,” Allison says, and Epic wants to “take that battle-tested social framework and move it up from Fortnite up to the store level.” The idea is that you’ll be able to party up and chat with your Epic Games friends across devices, theoretically meaning that friends on... Continue reading…

You've likely come across Docker containers when configuring your homelab setup. These can prove invaluable for containerizing your apps and services, keeping everything updated, and making it much more convenient to manage more than one app running on your server(s). Whether you're rolling with a single system or have a few servers connected to your LAN, Docker can be beneficial to a homelab setup and this guide will show you how it can become essential for your deployment.

© Disney © & TM Lucasfilm Three years ago, Disney revealed the most convincing replica of a Star Wars lightsaber ever devised — one whose glowing blade fully and automatically retracts inside the handle due to a cleverly patented device. Now, its lead inventor, Lanny Smoot, says he’s hoping that lightsaber might turn into a product you can actually buy — and it sounds like plans could already be in motion, unless Smoot was misinformed. At Disney’s D23 fan expo last month, a fan asked that question with a camera rolling, as documented by YouTuber Finding The Force. Smoot replied:I think the company would like to do that. And I think Josh D’Amaro, our number two guy, our head of Disney Parks, said it at a public — I hope — meeting of toy vendors to say, hey,... Continue reading…

While you can hack Doom onto pretty much any device, figuring out what to do if you want to reuse your old devices for something a little more useful is slightly more challenging. That said, the hacking and homebrew community is pretty awesome, and the chances are you'll be able to find a selection of projects for almost any device you want to hack to make more use of. It's a great way of saving money while keeping those old devices out of landfills, and we've rounded up some ideas to get you started.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Thanks to Qi2, there are way more great chargers for your MagSafe phone than ever before. Continue reading…