Most of Belkin's Switch 2 accessories are designed to either protect or power up Nintendo's latest handheld, like its Charging Case Pro that actually does both at the same time. Its new multitasking Charging Grip can also add three or four more hours of playtime through an included 10,000mAh battery pack, while improving the Switch 2's ergonomics with beefier nonslip grips for the Joy-Con controllers.Belkin's Charging Grip is now available through the company's online store in black, lilac, and olive green color options for $99.99. The magnetic 10,000mAh battery sticks to the back of the Switch 2, but since the handheld doesn't support mag …Read the full story at The Verge.

DIYer and TikTok user Annike Tan, who goes by @ubeboobey, can carry her cyberdeck around without anyone noticing because it doesn't look like a computer at all. Tan, who has been featured in The Cut and Wired, went viral earlier this year with a mermaid-themed cyberdeck she made inside an old purse. She has since upgraded it and built an MP3 player and a solar-powered cyberdeck. Tan and countless other DIYers are attracting millions of views showing off the personal computers they've built inside purses, jewelry boxes, toys, and old tech, hiding Raspberry Pi boards inside art projects. @ubeboobey Replying to @D493 I wear it as a bag! # …Read the full story at The Verge.

Amazon's gaming strategy has never really been clear. It's been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch, launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago, investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having access to a huge slate of franchises through Prime Video and the MGM Studios library. Late last year, the company announced a major pivot, relaunching Luna with a focus on party games you can play with just your phone as a controller - including an AI-powered game starring Snoop Dogg as a judge - and basically jumping ship on MMOs.At the time, it looked like a retreat, but Amazon says that isn't the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google now lets big creators and publishers in the US claim dedicated profiles in Search to highlight things like videos, articles, and their other profiles online. But this feature won't be available to most people or organizations; Google is limiting it to people with at least 100,000 YouTube subscribers, 100,000 followers on Instagram or X, or 300,000 followers on TikTok. You'll need to meet the minimum on one of those platforms and be at least 18 years old to make a Search profile.In demo videos, Google shows how a Search profile can feature links to websites and other platforms, a short summary of the person or brand, pinned media fro …Read the full story at The Verge.

Since my son was born, my wife and I have been revisiting our physical media, mostly to verify which children's movies we're okay with him watching and which we aren't (as it turns out, I watched a lot of things I probably shouldn't have). In the process, I've rediscovered a lot of media that isn't on Netflix or Hulu. And somehow, despite the greater theoretical effort involved in popping a DVD or Blu-ray into a player, I'm watching more content than ever.

Claude is the only AI subscription that's outlasted everything else in my stack this year. I've cycled through and dropped a fair few others, but Claude is the one I never managed to cancel. The reasoning's pretty straightforward - Pro gives me the model lineup I rely on day to day, plus all the workspace stuff around it that actually makes my workflow easier. None of it is groundbreaking on its own, but the package as a whole is hard to walk back from.

Kevin O'Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying that he will remove 19,430 acres from the project, located in and around the Locomotive Springs Waterfowl Management Area.The change comes just days after Adams called on O'Leary to slash the size of his Project Stratos data center by 75 percent, which would reduce it to about 10,000 acres. Adams also asked O'Leary to implement technology that minimizes water consum …Read the full story at The Verge.

As someone who owns a GPU from Nvidia's latest generation and plugs a QD-OLED 4K 240Hz monitor into it, I'm exactly the type of person that Nvidia built DLSS Multi Frame Generation for. The hardware, panel, refresh rate, and the need for a high framerate all squarely fit what it was built for, but despite that, I keep it off in every single game that I play. Not because I can't run it, and not because I think the DLSS umbrella of tech is a sham, but because frame generation does the exact opposite thing I want it to do.

When it comes to productivity-enhancing AI tools, it’s hard to ignore NotebookLM. Capable of aggregating documents and academic material in neatly organized notebooks, Google’s research app lets you run LLM queries on your own data banks instead of forcing the AI models to rely on their trained data. And by grounding the chat sessions in actual sources, NotebookLM also ensures you get precise responses with cited documents instead of hallucinated answers based on outdated information.

Visual Studio Code's popularity has exploded over the last decade, and it's become an essential part of the workflow for many developers. I've always thought of it like a carefully customized tool where my extensions, keybindings, and configuration come together to create my ideal coding environment. That view hasn't changed much, but recently the way I use the editor has.

Whether a new home lab enthusiast or an experienced homelabber, Cloudflare is often their first choice for building their infrastructure. Not because Cloudflare is free, but because it solves real problems without any unnecessary hassle. A few days ago, I wrote about how Cloudflare had quietly become a load-bearing infrastructure in my setup and mentioned I was experimenting with Pangolin to replace Cloudflare Tunnel.

The Cash App Wand is a novel way to pay for your next coffee. | Image: Cash App The convenience of contactless payments can already feel magical, but Cash App is really leaning into that with its latest accessory. The mobile payment service is launching the Cash App Wand: an NFC-enabled, iridescent, star-topped wand that allows users to make on-the-go payments without pulling out their phone or card.This plays on a popular DIY trend that's already circulating on social media platforms, in which people are 3D printing (or otherwise constructing) their own creative "cases" for contactless payment cards. Magic wands seem to be the most popular design, likely because the extra reach makes them convenient for drive-thru pa …Read the full story at The Verge.