Ventje’s eVentje. The eVentje custom buildout is a worthy all-electric successor to the iconic VW Camper. Continue reading…

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 39, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for gadgets this week, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been writing about Surfaces and other tablets, chatting with some internet friends about the fall of Red Lobster, reading about Magic: The Gathering and the history of emoji, watching MoviePass, MovieCrash, weeding my patio with a literal flamethrower, and for some reason, eating a lot of popcorn. Like, a lot of popcorn.I also have for you a bunch of cool new gadgets, a new YouTube channel you’re going to love, a new-old Mario game, a clever new AI tool for Windows, lots and lots of fun... Continue reading…

Unless you've been living under a rock recently, then you've probably seen how Google's new "AI Overview" feature has made claims that you should use Nutella to cool your PC instead of thermal paste, use glue to thicken your pizza cheese, or to make mustard gas in order to clean your washing machine. It's been a mess of hilarious proportions, and the craziest thing about it is that it's hard to even say what Google can do about it.

You might want to record a call on an iPhone for a variety of reasons. You could be interviewing someone, taking notes, or keeping a sweet call with a loved one for posterity. Whatever the reason, you need to consider a few important things beforehand. First, make sure the person on the other end is comfortable being recorded. Second, note the legalities of call recording in your state or location. Once you have these factors covered, you can record a call using the latest iPhones in a variety of ways.

Spotlight search is a hallmark of macOS. It's a powerful tool for accessing apps, files, or searching the internet without your hands needing to leave the comfort of the home row. It's been replicated across Linux and Windows, and is a hugely popular feature. But it hasn't improved vastly over the last few decades, and is slowly being overtaken by more extensible, flexible options. That's where Alfred comes in.

ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini are all part of a wave of generative AI models that have arrived over the past year that can take your text prompts and provide unique outputs. They can help you generate emails, process information, or research online, and have massive benefits even in accessibility contexts. With all of these systems being similar, it's hard to pick which one is the best. So, let's analyze the differences between the big three and which is better based on the situation.

Ever since Windows 3.0 all the way back in the 1990, Windows has included a few wallpapers to choose from. And even though we really like the Windows 11 wallpapers, it can get pretty tiring to have only a handful of images to choose from after using a PC for months and years.

Bambu P1P vs. Creality K1C: an ‘easy’ 3D printer showdown. Continue reading…

Health is wealth. Its a simple yet true mantra: nothing is more important than your personal health. Fitness trackers have come a long way since being glorified pedometers, although they still do that incredibly well too. Today, the best fitness trackers provide helpful insights like heart rate data. Many also provide coaching to improve your workouts, insights on how you can better recover, and in some cases, they can even track and help relieve your stress.

Tap the waveform icon, circled above, to search with sound. | Screenshots: YouTube Music The Android YouTube Music app is rolling out a feature that’s part Shazam and part your friend when you say, “hey what’s that song that goes...” right before you hum out a bar. The feature lets you hum, whistle, sing, or play a recording of a song to figure out what it is.If you have the new feature, you’ll see a new waveform icon next to the microphone icon that appears when you tap the search button in the upper right corner of the app. Tap this, and the app will start listening. It’s not too shabby, either! When I tested, it was able to identify actual recordings with what seemed like uncanny speed, making it a great replacement for Shazam. As far as listening to me hum, it accurately picked out most of the songs I sang, whistled,... Continue reading…

While you can game using any pair of good headphones, the best gaming headsets often come with added features that will make your gaming experience better. From being able to hear footsteps and other sound effects with pinpoint accuracy in online shooters, to immersive soundtracks in single-player experiences, audio underpins the virtual world you're exploring.

Did you keep up with all the news that happened this week? You'd be forgiven if you didn't; so much news hit the channels this week that it was hard to keep track of everything that happened. Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs began making the sounds, and people started getting worried over potential privacy concerns with it. But underneath all that news was some legitimately good stuff that got swamped by all the Microsoft news. As such, here are the five best news picks for this week.