Let’s say you finally decided to buy the Raspberry Pi 5 after hearing good things about the newest member of the most popular SBC family. If you’re into creating DIY projects, you may have already exhausted most of the cool stuff you could pull off with just the SBC. The next step is to start looking into peripherals that you can equip onto the Raspberry Pi to expand your repertoire of projects.

A power plant in Thompsons, Texas, U.S. that’s home to the Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. | Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just finalized rules aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. But it still doesn’t crack down on the nation’s fleet of gas-fired power plants. That’s a big omission considering the US gets 43 percent of its electricity from gas, more than from any other source of energy. EPA administrator Michael Regan says the agency is taking more time to strengthen rules for today’s existing gas power plants. But waiting too long risks leaving the decision up to a possible forthcoming Trump administration, which tried to gut environmental protections the last time. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for the US to meet climate commitments it set under the Paris agreement. The Biden... Continue reading…

Valve has had a pretty generous return policy for products purchased on Steam, allowing players to return a title so long as it was within 14 days and less than two hours played. From a consumer perspective, this is a very reasonable policy, allowing players to experience some of the game, and just return it, even if you just don't like it.

Windows updates can be fairly time-consuming due to several factors including download size, installation time, and the duration of the reboots that are needed to activate an update. Microsoft tried to solve a portion of this problem back in 2021 when it reduced the size of Windows 11 updates by 40%. Now, the Redmond firm has announced that it is bringing the same technology to Windows 10 version 22H2.

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Brendan Hoffman, Getty Images Here’s a roundup of all the news about a new law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell off its platform. Continue reading…

One of the best parts of building a custom PC is making it your own, since no two custom-builds will end up exactly the same. There are a lot of ways to make your high-end gaming PC uniquely stand out from the rest, including by picking a stylish PC case, adding RGB components and accessories, and creating a custom cooling system. Those are classic, tried-and-tested options that date back to the early days of PC building. In 2024, there's a new option, and in many ways it's better and more uncommon than the others. You can install something known as a sub-screen into your existing PC case, and it's a secondary display that can display graphics, widgets, performance stats, and much more.

Microsoft began updating the classic Teams users to a faster version of the app on March 31, signaling that it'll stop supporting the older version sooner rather than later. Well, the day has arrived. After days of waiting, the software giant has finally given us enough clarity on when it'll stop supporting classic Teams and in what circumstances the app will stop working completely.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The generative AI gold rush is underway — just don’t expect it to create profits anytime soon.That was the message from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to investors during Wednesday’s call for the company’s first-quarter earnings report. Having just put its ChatGPT competitor in a bunch of places across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, much of the call focused on exactly how generative AI will become a money-making endeavor for Meta. The company is already quite profitable, having grown net income to more than $12 billion on $36.5 billion in revenue in the last quarter alone. But its revenue growth is expected to slow going forward. At the same time, it’s spending more than ever on AI and the metaverse.“Historically, investing to build... Continue reading…

If you’re still manually mopping and vacuuming your floors in 2024, it’s time to automate your cleaning process and get a significant slice of your life back. Your time is the most precious thing you have — there’s no reason to keep wasting it on cleaning when intelligent robot-vacuum options abound.

Putting together a custom PC isn't a one-and-done purchase like consoles, and it requires a lot of effort to understand things like your needs, product compatibility, budget, and more. Additionally, you also have to track down and source individual components like the CPU and GPU before you can even get to the somewhat challenging part of building the PC. This entire process can be just as frustrating as it is rewarding, and it's certainly not for everyone.

Image: Supercell Supercell doesn’t release a lot of games, but the studio’s mobile releases tend to be big hits. Think Clash of Clans, Brawl Stars, and Clash Royale. Now, the developer is gearing up for its next major release: Squad Busters, which will be out globally on both Android and iOS on May 29th.It’s a competitive multiplayer game, but one on a larger scale than a typical mobile release. In each match, 10 players compete to collect the most gems while building up a squad of computer-controlled characters. It’s sort of like a simplified MOBA: you move your team around fighting minions, earning cash that lets you improve and grow your squad before you eventually start fighting other players and going for the big gem pile in the middle of the map.... Continue reading…

One of the things you'll come across during everyday use of a great Linux distribution like Ubuntu is installing apps and opening certain files. While most apps can be found in the Ubuntu Software Center or even as manual downloads, there might be a time when an app or a file you want will come as a tar.gz file type.