You can spend all the time and money you want putting together your dream PC, but you're not going to get the best experience and will be left wanting for more without the right peripherals. Think of your PC like a high-performance sports car, which is armed to the teeth to handle the tracks. But you're not going to have the best experience, or even the confidence to drive and push it to its limits without the right tires and things like a comfortable seat.

Image: Arrowhead Game Studios Attention, Democracy Defenders: Helldivers 2 will soon require players on Steam to link their account to a PlayStation Network account. According to the announcement, all new players on Steam will be required to link to a PSN account starting May 6th, while current players will have a little bit longer, with mandatory enforcement delayed until June 4th. According to Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, linking to a PSN account was always going to be a requirement for Steam players, and the policy is there to ensure players are protected from griefing and other in-game abuses. But the game’s community isn’t buying it, vociferously protesting the decision on social media and on Steam itself. Helldivers! An important message... Continue reading…

Although Microsoft Loop was barebones at launch, the software giant fast-paced the development with regular feature add-ons in the last few months. Loop is a new personal Wiki and collaboration software from Microsoft that works quite differently from your traditional Microsoft 365 app. It requires a learning curve due to its unique organizational style and user experience design (UX). If you are new to Loop or already use it to manage your workflow on your laptop, check out our top tricks to elevate your Loop setup in no time.

Whether it's a telemarketer or someone impersonating the IRS, spam callers can take up quite a bit of your precious time, not to mention the cringe factor. Despite constant efforts from the FCC and carriers, spam calls remain a huge menace for most Americans.

The Steam Deck is still one of the best PC gaming handhelds you can buy in 2024. And thanks to the excellent support from Valve and dedicated developers, the experience has only gotten better since its release, and continues to do so at a rapid pace even now.

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Bounced emails. Stalled projects. Delayed adapters. These are the immediate effects of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “absolutely hard core” approach to cost cutting, which has resulted in at least 500 layoffs from the company’s Supercharger business, including the division’s top executive, Rebecca Tinucci.The timing couldn’t have been worse. Tesla was on the verge of making its vehicle charging plug the de facto standard in North America, and its competitors and stakeholders are counting on a smooth ride. But Musk claims the leaner team will focus less on deploying new Supercharger locations and instead focus on “100 percent uptime.” How that will translate into reality is unclear, with laid-off employees telling InsideEVs that reduced manpower... Continue reading…

Another month, and another chance for users of Chromebook devices to get their hands on a set of new features. Google has announced that it has started rolling out ChromeOS 124 to the Stable channel, adding a host of changes, one of which is greatly inspired by how snapping works in Windows 11 and 10.

Rufino Choque, from the Urus Indigenous community, stands over a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopó Lake, which disappeared in 2015. | Photo by Manuel Seoane Attacks against environmental journalists have risen dramatically across the world, according to a report released by UNESCO to commemorate World Press Freedom Day.UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists surveyed 905 journalists across 129 countries. Between 2009 and last year, more than 70 percent of reporters experienced attacks while working on environmental stories ranging from mining and deforestation to protests and land grabs. There were more than 300 attacks reported over the past five years alone, a 42 percent jump from the previous five-year period. The attacks come in many forms, from legal threats and online harassment to physical violence and death threats — although physical attacks were most common. They... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, I placed a big dinner order for myself and several friends through DoorDash. There was no way to add a tip when I placed my order, but I wasn’t too worried — DoorDash assured me I’d be able to tip after the order was placed or delivered.It was the first time I had used the service since last November, and since then, DoorDash made some big changes: in protest of a New York City law guaranteeing a minimum wage for delivery drivers, the platform removed the ability to add a tip when you place an order. Now, in New York City, customers like myself who want to continue tipping must do so after their order is placed.It wasn’t until I went back to add a tip to that dinner order that I realized just how difficult DoorDash has made... Continue reading…

Home security can range from a complete solution from an external company with a monthly subscription to a DIY job with hardware and a server. I've opted for somewhere in between with a Ring alarm system up and running with doors and hallways secured with sensors. I plan to complement this setup by adding some cameras around our home with units available from most tech stores and a NAS to record everything.

Image: Getty Images The TSA’s been planning to expand facial recognition to a whopping 430 US airports over the next several years — but a bipartisan group of 14 senators is now challenging that. Facial recognition “poses significant threats to our privacy and civil liberties, and Congress should prohibit TSA’s development and deployment of facial recognition tools until rigorous congressional oversight occurs,” reads part of the May 2nd letter (via Gizmodo) from Sens. Merkley, Kennedy, Markey, Marshall, Cramer, Wyden, Warren, Daines, Braun, Sanders, Lummis, Van Hollen, Welch, and Butler. They add later that “this powerful surveillance technology as deployed by TSA does not make air travel safer” and suggest that the TSA’s current error rate of 3 percent... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that AI features are coming soon, and a new report from AppleInsider offers more details about what we might see in the next version of iOS. One of the big focuses will be on Siri, which will reportedly gain the ability to analyze and summarize texts within the Messages app.AppleInsider previously said a similar “Intelligent Search” feature is coming to Safari in iOS 18, allowing users to summarize webpages. Apple’s large language model (LLM), called Ajax, will power these features. Several papers published by Apple suggest that the company is working on bringing on-device AI processing to the iPhone, and AppleInsider’s report further aligns with this. The report says that Ajax uses on-device... Continue reading…