The world has, more or less, moved on from hard drives. Everyone knows that an SSD is much faster than an HDD, and an NVMe SSD is faster than a SATA SSD. When buying a new SSD, most users are aware they need to look at the more obvious specifications such as the interface (SATA/NVMe), PCIe generation (Gen3, Gen4, Gen5), capacity, and the advertised read/write speeds.

Image: Canoo EV startup Canoo has lost co-founder and chief technology officer Sohel Merchant and is moving its operations out of Los Angeles, according to two reports from TechCrunch this week, citing unnamed sources.Merchant took over the CTO position in 2021, when the company’s CTO left, along with two other co-founders. One of those who remained, chief designer Richard Kim, departed last year. With Merchant now reportedly gone, chief engineer Christoph Kuttner is the last founder standing at Canoo, according to TechCrunch yesterday. Canoo wrote in a quarterly SEC filing on August 14th that it was “permanently” dropping its headcount as part of a reorganization plan for its Torrance, California facility, and offering to move “approximately 137”... Continue reading…

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 49, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like podcasts, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about upstart baseball teams and canceled comics and Francis Ford Coppola, watching Logan Lucky, binging Teo Crawford’s camera videos, listening to The Mess Around and thus rewatching New Girl for the millionth time, trying to plan a trip to the Nintendo Museum this fall, and giving Capacities another whirl since Casey Newton recommended it this week. I also have for you a bunch of new podcasts that all launched this week for some reason, some amazing smartphone photos, a reason to hit... Continue reading…

Microsoft Excel is a go-to solution for professionals and businesses to crunch numbers and create insightful charts, data analysis, and data visualization. If you are new to Excel, the softwares endless menu and formulas can initially seem overwhelming. In this post, we will walk you through some of the must-know Excel functions to make tackling your everyday Excel tasks a breeze.

If you arent familiar with them, hypervisors are incredible tools that let you run virtual instances of actual operating systems. Whereas the more powerful hypervisors like Proxmox and ESXi have to be installed on top of the bare hardware, their Type-2 counterparts are far more accessible as they can be set up without wiping out your operating system.

If you have a lot of stray cats in your neighborhood, you may want a little help logging the adventures of each and every single one. Fortunately, where humans fall short, technology is not far behind. Someone has created a Raspberry Pi project that keeps an eye on your back garden and alerts you when you see a cat - or scares away any birds that it spots.

Windows 11 changed a lot in terms of the overall design and user experience. However, many settings and features hidden behind the Control Panel still work the same way. For example, the hibernate mode still works the same as it did in Windows 10. It's a power-saving feature similar to sleep mode, but it extends battery life further by saving your system state into a file on your hard drive or SSD.

If you're on the hunt for the best desktop CPU, AMD seems to be the only option for now. Intel is a bit busy with the whole Raptor Lake instability fiasco, so the new Ryzen 9000 processors have no competition as a result. These new Zen 5 chips are efficient, they work with existing AM5 motherboards, and cost less than their last generation counterparts. While these chips might not be the fastest in terms of gaming performance, here we highlight some excellent reasons to buy a Ryzen 9000 series CPU right now.

August is almost over, and people are beginning to look forward to everything associated with the fall. However, just like any week of the year, the tech news engine kept working away. If you've been too busy looking up if pumpkin spice lattes have returned to check out the tech news this week, here's everything you missed out on.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is reportedly in custody after being arrested near Paris Saturday evening as he was departing his private jet. The billionaire was apprehended on a warrant related to a preliminary investigation, writes Reuters.French authorities believe that the platform’s lack of moderation has “allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.” Durov will go before a judge tonight and could be indicted as early as Sunday, according to TF1 (which we read using Google Translate), one of two French outlets cited by Reuters.Telegram has become a critical resource as people turn to it to find crucial information in places where heavy information censorship is common, such as Russia. But Durov’s preference for... Continue reading…

We got game emulators in the app store, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Whining about stuff is a treasured American pastime, so allow me to indulge: the iPhone is more fun in Europe now, and it’s not fair.They’re getting all kinds of stuff because they have cool regulators, not like, regular regulators. Third-party app stores, the ability for browsers to run their own engines, Fortnite, and now the ability to replace lots of default apps? I want it, too! Imagine if Chrome on iOS wasn’t just a rinky dink little Safari emulator! Imagine downloading a new dialer app with a soundboard of fart sounds and setting it as your default! Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t seem interested in sharing these possibilities with everyone.Sure, we got retro game emulators in the app store. And that rules. But that’s only because... Continue reading…

You can learn a lot about somebody just by learning about how they get things done. Are they the sort of person who might have a perfectly color-coded email inbox, a flawlessly organized to-do list, and what’s that, they just sent you a calendar invite for happy hour next week? Or are they more likely to have a giant pile of sticky notes they never look at, a computer desktop with so many files you can’t even see the wallpaper, and today’s main tasks written on their arm? Neither is wrong, but they’re very different.On this episode of The Vergecast, the second in our three-part miniseries about work and productivity and how to get more done in a digital world, we decide to get to know our colleagues in a new way: by asking them to... Continue reading…