Windows 11's hardware requirements prevent it from being installed on less-than-ideal systems, but that hasn't stopped people from trying to cram it onto as many devices as possible. Just ask NTDev, who strives to cut down Windows 11 as far as possible into a fan-made version called Tiny11. Now, they're at it again by installing Windows 11 on an iPhone 15 Pro, but don't get too excited; it didn't work out so well.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks at Tioga Marine Terminal on October 13th, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Photo: Getty Images With the US facing the prospect of another four years of former President Donald Trump rolling back environmental protections at the federal level, the Biden administration is putting billions of dollars of climate funding into the hands of local governments.The Biden administration announced $4.3 billion in funding today for locally led climate projects across the US. The money will fund 25 different initiatives led by state, municipal, and tribal governments as well as coalitions of local governments working to transition to cleaner energy and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The money can be used to deploy a wide array of clean energy technologies — from solar and wind farms to EV chargers and heat pumps.All in all, the projects are... Continue reading…

Only 26 copies of this gold-finished cartridge were ever produced. | Image: Goldin Starting tonight, Goldin will be auctioning off one of the rarest Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges of all time. Nintendo originally created only 26 of these gold cartridges as prizes for Nintendo Power magazine readers in 1990. They’re so hard to come by that one sold on eBay for $100,088 a decade ago.Hundreds of cartridges were created for the 1990 Nintendo World Championships, an event that toured the United States trying to find the country’s best gamers. Players competed for high scores in timed versions of Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and Rad Racer, which were all bundled onto special cartridges featuring physical switches, allowing the games’ time limits to be modified. Most of these cartridges featured standard gray NES... Continue reading…

Photo: Evo / Stephanie Lindgren Evo 2024 wrapped up late Sunday night with Victor “Punk” Woodley beating Adel “Big Bird” Anouche in Street Fighter 6. With his victory, Woodley became the first American to win a mainline Street Fighter tournament at Evo in over 20 years.The match was nail-bitingly close with Anouche, who made it to the grand finals via the loser’s bracket, beating Woodley 3-0 to reset or “flip” the bracket requiring another best-of-5 match to determine the winner. Their second match went the distance, with each player having two set wins a piece and tied 1-1 in the final match. A well-executed super move from Woodley’s Cammy ended the match and America’s long Street Fighter Evo championship drought along with it. Americans actually fared exceedingly... Continue reading…

Acer has thrown me for a loop with its latest laptop, the Swift Edge 16 (SFE16-44). A mid-range laptop, this 16-inch laptop is one of the lightest Ive reviewed this year. At a mere 2.7 pounds, the Edge puts a lot of 13 and 14-inch laptops to shame. But Acer continued to sweeten the pot with an alluring OLED display and one of the best webcams of the year. And it only costs $1,300, which is pretty good for a mid-tier machine.

Apple’s illustrious original programming may face tighter budgets. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is known to spend billions of dollars on its Hollywood projects, but that could be set to change following production losses across the wider streaming industry. According to Bloomberg, Apple’s senior vice president of services Eddy Cue is pushing studio chiefs Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht to oversee project budgets more closely in a bid to make its Apple TV Plus streaming business more sustainable.Apple invests heavily in individual projects compared to larger streaming companies like Netflix, having spent over $500 million on movies from directors Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), Ridley Scott (Napoleon), and Matthew Vaughn (Argylle). While its original projects get plenty of attention during award seasons,... Continue reading…

Image: Hugo J. Herrera for The Verge Articles today are filled with AI jargon. Here are some definitions to get you through. Continue reading…

Windows 11 is already the most efficient version of Windows, with a whole suite of settings and options for tweaking your laptop's battery performance. Even if we have one of the best laptops for battery life, we all want our laptops to last as long as possible between charges. The best part is that most of these tweaks can be accomplished without any additional software, making them easy (and free!) to use. Keep reading to find out what you can do to increase the battery life on your PC.

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 will not ship with the Samsung Messages app pre-installed in the US, according to 9to5Google. Those who still prefer Samsung’s app will have to download it from the Galaxy Store, where it’s still available. “Starting with Starting with the Flip6, Fold6 and newer models, the Samsung Messages app will no longer be preloaded,” reads a Samsung message posted by Android leaker Max Weinbach. “Instead, Google Messages will provide a new and enhanced experience to express your emotions, making communication safe and fun.” Google Messages has been the default for Samsung phones since 2022 when Samsung made the switch, which was a boon for RCS messaging.Samsung Messages is no longer pre-loaded! Google... Continue reading…

Yep, still bad at Minesweeper. | Photo: Wes Davis / The Verge Apple recently approved a new emulator app called UTM SE that enables your iPhone or iPad (or Vision Pro!) to masquerade as PC hardware and run honest-to-goodness computer desktop operating systems. Some of you asked in the comments section of my last story how it runs — a fair question that I couldn’t answer at the time. But now that I’ve tried it a little, I have answers, and I can say this much: it’s better than I expected, but I wouldn’t count on it for too much.That’s because it doesn’t use a just-in-time (JIT) compiler, which translates software into code that your device understands before it’s executed. JIT compilers go against Apple’s software guidelines for the App Store, so you’d have to jailbreak your phone to install a v... Continue reading…

The cost of PC hardware has been steadily increasing for years, but GPU prices, in particular, have blown out of proportion as of late. The amount that could buy a decent gaming PC just a few years ago can barely get you a semi-decent mid-range graphics card these days.

Network-attached storage (NAS) is usually a specific device that only serves to store data for clients to access. They've become more powerful over the years and can now run services that transform the small server into a media streaming platform, home surveillance backend, or even a web server. You can use your Windows 11 PC as a NAS without losing out on using the system as a general computer or for gaming. This guide will show you how to create a NAS with your PC and still use it as normal.