The wireless Yale Keypad Touch provides fingerprint and key code access for the new Yale Approach lock and several August smart locks. | Image: Yale August makes excellent smart locks, but careful observers may have noticed that the company hasn’t released any new hardware in four years. Owners of August locks may be relieved to know that a new wireless keypad finally brings them the option of fingerprint unlocking.The Yale Keypad Touch is a fingerprint-enabled wireless keypad for Yale and August retrofit locks that works with the fourth-gen August Wi-Fi Smart Lock, third-gen August Smart Lock Pro, third-gen August Smart Lock, and the new Yale Approach Lock with Wi-Fi. In addition to fingerprint and code unlock, it offers one-touch locking on your way out. It’s available now for $109.99 at ShopYaleHome.com and August.com.That’s a steep upgrade for those who already have an August... Continue reading…

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Recall, one of Windows’ new AI features, on a Surface Laptop. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Microsoft’s new Windows on Arm push is a milestone moment. It’s taken nearly five years to get to the point where the software maker is confident it has the upper hand over the MacBook Air on performance, battery life, and app compatibility.But behind the scenes, Microsoft has been working on something even bigger. While Microsoft has spent years working toward an Arm transition that will now play out throughout the summer and beyond, it’s the AI overhaul at the heart of this new generation of “Copilot Plus PCs” that could fundamentally change how we use Windows on a daily basis.I recently got the chance to hear from the leaders behind Microsoft’s big AI push, and they made it clear that this isn’t just a silicon change. Microsoft has... Continue reading…

Image: Linaro With Microsoft’s new Surfaces leading a wave of Copilot Plus PCs powered by Arm chips that could reshape our expectations of Windows laptops, you might be wondering: do they game? We’d already seen a few examples, like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control — but at Build, Microsoft and Qualcomm just revealed a new website with far more examples. WorksOnWoA.com has apparently already tested 1,481 games on the Surface Laptop and other devices with Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite chips, and it lets you search to see whether your game of choice falls into one of four categories: “Perfect,” “Playable,” “Runs,” or “Unplayable.”Here’s what each of those terms mean, according to Linaro, the Arm engineering group that built the website and counts... Continue reading…

Network-attached storage (NAS) is exactly as the name implies storage connected to a network and available to clients on that network. A NAS enclosure is a small server made by brands such as Synology, Asustor, and TerraMaster, which only requires a storage drive (or a few) to get up and running. They also come with their operating systems and support but cost considerably more than building your own NAS from PC parts and installing a custom OS. Which is better depends on what you plan on using the NAS for.

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A Wisconsin software engineer was arrested on Monday for allegedly creating and distributing thousands of AI-generated images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Court documents describe Steven Anderegg as “extremely technologically savvy,” with a background in computer science and “decades of experience in software engineering.” Anderegg, 42, is accused of sending AI-generated images of naked minors to a 15-year-old boy via Instagram DM. Anderegg was put on law enforcement’s radar after the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children flagged the messages, which he allegedly sent in October 2023.According to information law enforcement obtained from Instagram, Anderegg posted an Instagram story in 2023 “consisting of a... Continue reading…

As a kid, getting help with my math homework was difficult. My parents would stare glassy-eyed at my algebra, trying to recall something they didn't know how to do decades ago. Eventually, they'd shrug, and pass the assignment back to me. If I wanted help to solve an equation I was stuck on, it was down to me to re-read my textbooks and in-class notes to figure out what to do, even if I never really grasped why you performed the steps required to solve algebraic equations.

A chunky electric spoon for your chunky low-sodium foods. | Image: Kirin If you’re cutting salt out of your diet, either for medical reasons or just trying to be healthy, low-sodium foods can be a letdown. But don’t despair — Japanese company Kirin claims to have a solution in its Electric Salt Spoon, which uses electrodes to electrify your tongue to give you a little salty shock. The idea, as Reuters puts it, is that it passes a small electric current to “concentrate sodium ion molecules on the tongue,” enhancing salty flavor. It’s like techno-umami. The company says the goal is to get people to eat healthier by letting them eat low-sodium food without being sad about how unsalty it is. Image: Kirin Kirin partnered with Professor Homei Miyashita from Japan’s Meiji University School of... Continue reading…

Image: Square Enix I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately... like, should I go back and replay the Kingdom Hearts series or not? Fortunately, Square Enix has made this decision trivial with the announcement that it’s releasing the series on Steam on June 13th. To celebrate, and perhaps destabilize an entire generation of adults for whom the first Kingdom Hearts trailer was a transformative experience (aka, me), a trailer was released with a brand-new recording of Hikaru Utada’s “Simple and Clean.”The trailer was executed very intelligently, showing snippets of the Kingdom Hearts games in chronological order, suggesting to potential customers (and reminding lapsed fans like me) in what order the games should be played. Steam will have three Kingdom... Continue reading…

No other single-board computer maker dominates the market like Raspberry Pi does, but there are alternatives out there. When it comes to form and function, no other company comes for the Raspberry Pis market share more tenaciously than Orange Pi. Raspberry Pi has the Zero 2 W, Orange Pi has Zero 2W. Raspberry Pi has the 3B+, Orange Pi has the 3B Plus. Raspberry Pis latest SBC is the 5, and Orange Pi has the 5, 5B, 5 Plus and 5 Pro. And of the Orange Pi 5 series SBCs, the 5 Pro most closely aligns with the form of the Raspberry Pi 5.

How the “Add to Chromebook” badge looks like on websites. | Image: Google Google is making a new “Add to Chromebook” badge that’s designed to make it easier for ChromeOS users to find and install progressive web apps (PWAs) and Android apps. The badge links directly to the web app you’re looking to install or to the Google Play Store (if it’s an Android app), 9to5Google reports.In a Google I/O session video about ChromeOS, the presenter says many people looking for apps start with a Google search and end up on developers’ websites — a great place to display an Add to Chromebook badge and get ChromeOS users to the app. There isn’t much of a barrier when it comes to finding and installing Android apps on a Chromebook, as most people go straight to the Play Store to install those.However, web apps often end up... Continue reading…

Unless you're seeking the highest framerates possible or want to build a powerful workstation, even the best CPUs aren't something that most people get very excited about. Sure, it's cool to see a lot of cores and high clock speeds, but most of us just want to play games, and you don't need anything too special for that. Having said that, this is exactly why we can tell when a truly great CPU comes along; it gives us a reason to get excited about a component that usually isn't as important.