Thanks to its innovative approach, rich template library, robust database features, third-party app integrations, project management tools, and methods for seamless collaboration, Notion is undoubtedly one of the most popular all-in-one productivity tools out there. We've covered it briefly in our list of top 10 productivity apps.

April 2024 was the month of AI hardware, and it did not go well at all. Both the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 were recently released as AI hardware devices promising to change the way we interact with the world. As you can probably infer from the title of this post, both devices failed to live up to their ambitious claims. While first-gen products aren't usually the best, there's a much deeper problem going on here.

Looking at PCs and standalone hard drives, you might have trouble finding anything with less than 512 GB or even 1 TB of storage. For most activities, this amount of drive space should be more than enough. But gaming is becoming an exception.

AI has touched seemingly every facet of our daily lives, but you may not think of the dating scene when you imagine LLMs revolutionizing how we live. However, the founder of the dating website Bumble wants to change that. While AI is currently having a detrimental effect on the dating scene, Bumble hopes that one day they can use chatbots to pair up potential partners better.

With games such as Assassin's Creed Mirage and Resident Evil 4 coming to iPhones and iPads, now is the perfect time to enjoy mobile gaming. There's just one small problem: the touchscreen controls. While these controls are often serviceable, they can often be awkward and unintuitive. This is especially true for big-budget AAA games. If you have a PS5 controller around somewhere, you can connect it to your iPhone or iPad in order to enjoy a more comfortable experience.

The iPhone has some neat options you can use in the Photos app. New ones have arrived with iOS 17, which ships by default on the newest iPhones. One of the tools that has been around for a few generations is called Markup. With this creative and useful tool, you can do tons of things both with your photos and documents. You can create fun photos to post to social media and share with friends, sign documents, add relevant details, and more. Want to learn more about what you can do with Markup on an iPhone? Heres a comprehensive guide that covers it all.

The ability to add Depth Effects to photos set as your iPhone wallpaper adds a really cool element to the already great iPhone experience. But did you know you can use video, specifically Live Photos, for your wallpaper? Its simple, and once you learn how, youll have tons of fun switching it up and trying different ones.

Microsoft's Surface devices are some of the best laptops on the market, featuring premium designs, great displays, and generally high-end performance. Whether it's the Surface Pro 9, which is arguably the best Windows tablet on the market, or the Surface Laptop Studio 2, which has one of the most unique designs for a laptop, there are a lot of good things to say about Microsoft's lineup. However, ports tend to be one area where the company falls a little flat.

Despite its name, the Pocket 3 isn’t exactly comfortable to stuff in tighter pockets. | Photo by Quentyn Kennemer / The Verge I can’t think of anything permeating mainstream camera culture as aggressively as the DJI Osmo Pocket 3. The Fujifilm X100VI has stolen some of its thunder among film simulation enthusiasts, but DJI’s still having somewhat of a cultural moment on YouTube, Instagram, and the troubled TikTok by spurring all sorts of creator glee.Of course, the camera buffs are all over it, but serious and casual creators from other genres have paused their usual programming to rave about how it transcends amateur vlogging pursuits, whether you’re filming a wedding or self-shooting a scene for a Sundance-hopeful short film.Some of us at The Verge are excited, too: Vjeran liked it enough to call it his favorite gadget of 2023, and Sean just bought one... Continue reading…

Time for some Abe’s Oddysee! | Screenshot: Gamma iPhone users without a penchant for jailbreaking can finally enjoy the blocky polygons and shifty textures of the original PlayStation with Gamma, a free PS1 emulator that hit the iOS App Store last night. Gamma comes courtesy of developer ZodTTD, which has been creating emulators for the iPhone since the earliest days of third-party iOS apps.The app has both iPhone and iPad versions with support for Bluetooth controllers and keyboards, as well as customizable on-screen controller skins. It uses Google Drive and Dropbox syncing for backing up your game files and save states (those are the snapshots you can save at any time and reload, a little like pausing your game — great for old-school games that don’t let you save any time you... Continue reading…

Image: John Deere The solar storms that have been wowing people with the Northern Lights across the United States the last two nights have also been disrupting GPS satellites, crippling some Midwest farmers’ operations, reports 404 Media. The issues have forced many to stop planting just as a crucial planting deadline for corn farmers approaches.The storms reportedly knocked “some GPS systems” offline temporarily, which messed with the accuracy of “Real-Time Kinematic” (RTK) systems. Tractors from John Deere and other brands use RTK for “centimeter-level positional accuracy” when carrying out farming work like crop-planting or fertilizing, 404 Media writes. The “extremely compromised” systems caused “drastic shifts in the field and even some heading... Continue reading…

Have you ever deleted a file you didn't think you'd need, only to find yourself looking for it weeks later? You're not alone, and it's no fun realizing you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you had been more careful. Thankfully, when mistakes like this happen in Windows 11, you can try and recover the files you deleted accidentally or absent-mindedly.