Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through a pilot program in Japan last year. It's now expanding the service to "select markets, including Japan and the United States." To verify that they're not a bot or an AI agent, users have to physically visit one of World's orbs in person. According to World, the orb "takes pictures of your face and eyes, then encrypts and sto …Read the full story at The Verge.

Remote 3D printing always sounded better in theory than it felt in practice. The promise is great: send a file from anywhere, check in from your phone, and come home to a finished part waiting on the bed. The reality, at least for me, was a lot less relaxing. Every time I started a print while I was away, there was a little knot of anxiety sitting in the background.

When I first got to grips with using AI to boost my productivity, I found it kind of annoying. Every time I started a new chat, I'd have to start from scratch, telling the AI everything I was working on and what I wanted to achieve. This included telling the AI the same stuff they just taught me a moment ago, so they're up to speed. Continuing the old chats with all the context included would eventually begin to unravel after a few more prompts, and using the instructions feature was a pain if you wanted to use the model for anything else.

If you're looking for a simple pair of wireless earbuds that won't break the bank, the Skullcandy Smokin’ Buds are going to be a good choice. The brand has been around for over two decades, delivering affordable and reliable audio products.

I’ve been rocking both TrueNAS and Proxmox in my home lab, with both platforms fulfilling their own roles. The former powers my local and remote Network-Attached Storage servers, houses most of my network shares, and runs services that tend to be on the data-hoarding side of the spectrum. Meanwhile, Proxmox Virtual Environment and its complementary first-party tools are responsible for hosting most of my FOSS tools, virtual machines, and other wacky virtual guests I use for typical home server projects.

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company moves to focus more on coding and enterprise use.As part of a note Peebles posted on X, he said:I am immensely grateful to Sam, Mark, Aditya and Jakub for fostering a research environment that allowed us to pursue ideas off-the-beaten path from the company's mainline roadmap. It's tempting in life to mode collapse to the most i …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview.Anthropic's relationship with the Pentagon soured quickly in late February after the company refused to budge on two red lines: using its technology for domestic mass surveillance or lethal fully autonomous weapons with no human in the loop. Anthropic's tech has in the past been used heavily b …Read the full story at The Verge.

The dream of the AI-powered developer setup has always been a smarter autocomplete – a tool that could guess your next line before you typed it. But in 2026, the scenario has changed. While Cursor has long enjoyed its status as the heavyweight champion, new contenders like Google Antigravity and Windsurf are promising to change how we interact with our filesystems and terminals.

Valve's latest Proton 11.0-Beta1 might seem like a relatively expected update given the update's unassuming name, but under the hood, it includes a notable new feature: support for ARM64 devices.

A Raspberry Pi looks like the perfect NAS starter kit when you're just starting out. It's small, quiet, cheap to run, and backed by a community that has turned the little board into just about everything. I had drives, I had spare time, and I had the kind of optimism that usually shows up right before a project gets weird. On paper, it felt like an easy win.

There are plenty of great smartwatches out there, but a lot of them cost over $100. If you're a seasoned smartwatch user, then a price like that really isn't going to affect you. However, if you've never bought one before, then the cheaper, the better.

I've never much questioned the tools I use on a daily basis, especially when they work as well as the Nvidia App. It's clean, it's modern, and it most certainly feels like an upgrade over what used to be the GeForce Experience. Sure, the Nvidia Control Panel still reigns supreme when you need the most amount of control, but the App is pretty darn good, especially thanks to features like one-click GPU overclocking and per-app optimizations.