The discontinued cache button. | Image: Google Google has removed links to page caches from its search results page, the company’s search liaison Danny Sullivan has confirmed. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”The cache feature historically let you view a webpage as Google sees it, which is useful for a variety of different reasons beyond just being able to see a page that’s struggling to load. SEO professionals could use it to debug their sites or even keep tabs on competitors, and it can also be an enormously helpful news gathering tool, giving reporters the ability to see exactly what information a company has... Continue reading…

Node.js is a very popular Javascript runtime environment used on a lot of web applications these days. As a developer, you're probably already familiar with the tool, but one thing that's important to keep in mind is that there are multiple versions of Node.js out there, and they can produce different results or have compatibility issues in projects that were designed for a different version. The Node Version Manager (NVM) allows you to manage and install multiple Node.js versions on your PC, so you can use them as you need to without any hassle.

Windows 11, much like prior versions of the operating system, lets you use multiple accounts on the same computer, so if you have a desktop PC the entire family uses, you can separate each person's data to make things easier. But then you might not need those different accounts anymore, so you may want to delete them. Thankfully, that's fairly easy to do, and there are a few ways to go about it.

Mark Zuckerberg. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Thanks to new regulations, Apple is technically enabling the creation of alternative iPhone app stores in the European Union. But that doesn’t mean large developers like Meta will bite.CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his company’s view on Apple’s new policies during Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday: “I don’t think that the Apple thing is going to have any difference for us. Because I think that the way they have implemented it, I would be very surprised if any developer chose to go into the alternative app stores that they have. They’ve made it so onerous, and I think so at odds with the intent of what the EU regulation was, that I think it’s just going to be very difficult for anyone, including ourselves, to really seriously... Continue reading…

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, showing off its cameras. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge How does Samsung defend itself against the notion that its phone cameras are spitting out fake AI photos of not only the Moon, but most anything else you’d care to aim them at these days? For starters, the company’s head of product is saying that every photo is fake. Samsung EVP Patrick Chomet told TechRadar recently:There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], and it doesn’t mean anything. There is no real picture. You can try to define a real picture by... Continue reading…

If you've been thinking about taking your home theater setup to the next level, you're going to want to check out this fantastic deal on TCL's monster 98-inch 4K TV. While its sheer size is something to marvel at, this TV also delivers when it comes to performance and features. Although this TV has a normal retail price that sits at $4999.99, it's now been discounted by a massive 60%, dropping the price to just $1998. If that wasn't enough, Best Buy is offering free delivery, setup and mounting for a limited time.

Callum at home NOT annoying his partner. | Photo by Callum Booth / The Verge As convenient as e-readers are, I can’t quit actual books. Maybe it’s their reassuring weight, the satisfying crinkle of their pages, their beguiling musk; but there’s something addictive about that combination of paper, ink, and glue.Despite this — and as much as it pains me to say it — physical books aren’t perfect. One issue that’s been a particularly large albatross around my neck is reading in low-light environments. When I do so, I’m either keeping my partner awake with a blazing bedside lamp, twisting my body into awkward positions to illuminate the pages, or — worst of all — having to turn on the dreaded Big Light.But you know what? That’s all history. I’ve seen the light! More specifically, a neck light. And the longer I use... Continue reading…

If you've heard of laptops, there's a very good chance you know HP very well. One of the most prolific companies in the computing pace, HP makes everything from budget-friendly laptops to the very best laptops on the market, and there aren't many companies with the pedigree of HP when it comes to this industry. That also means there are a lot of options out there, which can make it difficult to choose which one you should get.

Swapping out your membrane keyboard for a mechanical one is the best thing you can do to improve your typing experience. There are very few things that are as satisfying as pressing a mechanical key switch and registering an input with satisfying feedback. They're also great for gaming, especially if you use tactile switches that offer assuring feedback on every actuation.

It's up for debate whether Apple's efforts to expand self-service repair have been of its own volition or are the result of increasing pressure from right-to-repair advocates and regulators. Regardless, one thing is clear: Apple's recent repair offerings are big wins for consumers. Earlier this month, Apple announced that it would expand its Self-Service Repair Program to give end users access to its internal diagnostic tools. This move can potentially be the most impactful right-to-repair feature Apple has shipped to date, but is it as good as it sounds? To find out, we tested it on a 15-inch MacBook Air.

YouTube, now on the Vision Pro. | Image: Christian Selig Google said it isn’t putting out a YouTube app for Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, so a third-party developer has stepped in to make one instead. Juno is the work of Christian Selig, the developer behind the now defunct Reddit app Apollo. It costs $4.99 and is already available from Apple’s App Store.Although it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno supports most of the features you’d expect out of a native YouTube app. You can watch videos (obviously), scrub and skip through them using pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the videos’ aspect ratios. Browsing YouTube’s catalog is also supported (though you can’t see video comments), and Juno is also set up to show YouTube ads to avoid making Google “grumpy,” Selig writes.Juno... Continue reading…

Some of the best laptops available today feature a dedicated (sometimes called discrete) graphics card (GPU) that can deliver much more performance compared to integrated processor (CPU) graphics. You'll find a GPU in the majority of high-end gaming laptops, as well as most that are used for development and design work; the extra performance unlocks the ability to use more intensive apps and games, and you can do it all while remaining mobile.