While Apple offers a rock-solid macOS experience for Mac, it's not entirely void of issues. After all, every operating system can cause issues from time to time, and moving to a new platform could mean dealing with a fresh set of bugs. Fortunately, you can easily solve many common Mac problems through simple fixes. Before you head to the nearest Apple store, use the tricks below to troubleshoot common Mac glitches in no time.

I've used Windows for over 24 years now, and can't imagine ever moving to a different operating system. I'm so used to how my PC is supposed to look, feel, and work that switching to something else is too big of a transition at this point.

Illustration: The Verge Apple will finally tell its own AI story at WWDC 2024, but it may not mean the sorts of showy features demoed by the likes of Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI. Instead, the event may see Apple rolling out basic AI features like transcribing voice memos or auto-generated emoji — and announcing a rumored partnership with OpenAI, according to Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg today. Recent rumors have held that Apple will be allowing chatbots to integrate more deeply into its operating systems, and it seems that OpenAI is getting the first crack at that with ChatGPT. But Apple is still working on an agreement with Google to do the same with Gemini, according to Gurman. It’s also been rumored to be talking to Anthropic. (Those... Continue reading…

The Verge Elon Musk founded xAI last summer, and today it announced raising $6 billion in funding, saying it will help bring the startup’s “first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate the research and development of future technologies.” So far, xAI has launched Grok, a supposedly edgier version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT available via X, formerly known as Twitter, where the chatbot is currently only available to X Premium subscribers. Funding in this round came from several sources, according to xAI, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Saudi Arabian Prince Al Waleed bin Talal. Last year, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that xAI was looking to raise up to $1 billion in equity... Continue reading…

When you're on the hunt for a great laptop, it's worth checking out the best Apple machines as well as the top Surfaces. But even still, actually making a choice can be confusing, especially if you're considering Microsoft's newest Surface Laptop and Apple's most premium portable computer.

Over time, even the best PCs and laptops can accumulate junk files that take up valuable storage space and slow down your PC. While we recommend that you keep an eye on your files and free up space occasionally, there may be a time when your PC just needs a completely fresh start. Installing major updates can also sometimes cause issues, which is one example of when it would be a good idea to reset your Windows 11 PC entirely. We'll show you everything you need to know to get this done.

Natively, a lot of computers don't support all file formats, and even the best Macs are no different. At some point, you might receive a collection of compressed files that you don't know how to open. If it's a ZIP file, macOS Sonoma will allow you to open it natively. You can't say the same for RAR files. Both formats are used for file compression, but RAR is more efficient and provides better compression. To open this file type on a Mac, you'll need to employ the help of a third-party app.

Have you ever wondered where your precious disk space has disappeared to? Sure, you might have two or three large games in your games drive at the same time, but that shouldn't take it from blue to red in the File Explorer, right? I become unsettled if any of my drives don't have at least 100-200 GB of free space at any time. When a drive is too full, it can slow down performance. But it's not always easy to find out what exactly is using up all the space on my SSD.

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge From the earliest pixelated games to the outrageously realistic experiences of today, flight simulators have always been pushing the boundaries of what can be visually recreated in a video game. It’s one thing to make space look good; it’s another thing entirely to faithfully recreate the cockpit of a 747 and the whole world around which it might fly.On this episode of The Vergecast, the fourth and final installment of our series on the five senses of video games, we asked Polygon’s Charlie Hall to help us make sense of the current state of the art in flight simulation. Hall, who once spent more than four months in VR mapping the edge of the Milky Way galaxy in Elite: Dangerous, has more experience in a virtual cockpit than most. We... Continue reading…

The Surface Laptop represents the best of what Microsoft has to offer in the laptop space, and they often rank among the best laptops you can buy on the market. But just the fact that they're made by Microsoft doesn't mean they're entirely immune to all the common, yet frustrating, Windows problems. In fact, there are multiple reports about the Surface Laptop's keyboard having issues that may cause it to stop responding entirely.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge An upcoming version of Microsoft Phone Link lets you select and copy text from within images synced from your Android phone. The feature is live now in Release Preview Insider builds, so it should roll out to everyone soon. Phone Link (called Link to Windows on the phone side) lets you sync calls, messages, notifications, and images — and cast your entire phone — from your Android phone to your Windows computer. It also works in a more limited fashion with iOS devices, which only sync notifications, messages, and calls over Bluetooth. Screenshot: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Phone Link will now let you select and copy text from images synced from your Android phone. The Windows Snipping Tool got text... Continue reading…

Sometimes, emojis have a hard time representing what you're truly feeling. Some services allow you to combine or design your own emoji, but Apple may be planning to make the process even easier. A renowned Apple leaker has let slip that the company may reveal AI-generated iPhone emojis during its big WWDC event happening in a few weeks.