Push notifications on your phone are a double-edged sword. While they make it easy to keep track of what's happening and what's being said, they can also go off during stressful or inopportune times. To combat this, a Raspberry Pi enthusiast created a "phone mailbox" that only delivers push notifications while the phone is inside it.

New Mac models have macOS pre-installed by default. Some of them, however, pack an older OS version rather than the latest macOS Sonoma. As a result, you may wonder what macOS version number your computer is running. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to check.

Image: The Verge Google’s Safety Check feature for Chrome, which, among other things, checks the internet to see if any of your saved passwords have been compromised, will now “run automatically in the background” on desktop, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The constant checks could mean that you’re alerted about a password that you should change sooner than you would have before.Safety Check also watches for bad extensions or site permissions you need to look at, and you can act on Safety Check alerts from Chrome’s three-dot menu. In addition, Google says that Safety Check can revoke a site’s permissions if you haven’t visited it in a while.Google also announced an upcoming feature for Chrome’s tab groups, also on desktop: Chrome will let... Continue reading…

Warner Bros. Because of its predictable story, and despite its occasionally gorgeous visuals, James Wan’s Aquaman sequel feels like the embodiment of everything that went wrong with the DC Extended Universe. Continue reading…

Gaming monitors can be expensive, but that doesn't mean you always need to pay full price when shopping for one. This Asus ROG Swift PG38UQ gaming monitor is now 23% off for a limited time, dropping down to its lowest price ever at just $765. With a deal this good, it won't last long, so be sure to grab it while you still can.

When you buy a Mac, you're investing in a mighty machine that is capable of handling some of the most intensive tasks. That's why many creative professionals opt for Apple computers, particularly when dealing with video editing. After all, the hardware is powerful enough for these workflows, and macOS Sonoma supports a wide range of paid and free video editors. If you're not sure which video editor for Mac you should get, then you may want to check some of our recommendations below.

Assembling your first desktop can be a thrilling experience, and luckily, the excitement doesn’t end after installing the OS. Once you boot into the system for the first time, you’ll be exposed to many applications waiting to be installed on your new rig. While your workload will largely define the types of applications you’ll get for your system, there are a couple of great options that are useful for every user. I’ve built several PCs over the years, and these are six applications that I install on every system without fail.

Illustration: The Verge A Wisconsin family has agreed to sell 407 acres of their land, which includes a local pumpkin farm attraction, to Microsoft — for a total of $76 million, reported the Milwaukee Business Journal. The local government initially offered the Creuziger family in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin about a third of that sum in 2017 as a part of an agreement with the Foxconn Technology Group. But the family refused, opting to hold out for a better offer.“The family wishes the village and Microsoft well, and they would appreciate people respecting their privacy,” the family’s attorney David Barnes told the Business Journal. Microsoft’s payout is significantly larger than the land’s current valuation. The Creuziger family’s land was originally valued at... Continue reading…

Nvidia debuted real-time ray tracing with its RTX 2000 Turing GPUs in 2018. While it was limited to a handful of games and the implementation was shoddy, Nvidia is now celebrating around 500 games and apps that support ray tracing. This number might seem huge, and even if you aren't a prolific gamer, you'd agree that ray tracing is far more prevalent and evolved than it was five years ago.

2023 is coming to a close, but Microsoft is already gearing up to make 2024 an exciting year for PC owners. While Microsoft is working on a variety of features for its operating system, you won't have to wait too long to get your hands on some of them. Sources have stated that there will be a big feature-packed update for Windows 11 coming February 2024, and the included features look very interesting.

If you're a developer using a laptop running Linux or one of the other popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, there's no doubt you're going to eventually need to use Pip Installs Packages, known as Pip for short. Pip is the package manager for Python, and you'll need it to install, search for, and deal with the Python Package index to help them work right. You might need to use Pip as a regular user to install an app that was developed using Python. Here's how to do it.

Joe Biden visits the Cummins Power Generation Facility in Fridley, Minnesota, on Monday, April 3rd, 2023. Last year, Cummins announced Fridley would be the site of its first electrolyzer manufacturing facility in the US. | Photo by Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Biden administration proposed new tax guidelines today aimed at making it cheaper to produce hydrogen as a less-polluting alternative to fossil fuels. The tax credit comes with strict stipulations around using newly constructed sources of clean energy to produce hydrogen, as opposed to more polluting sources.The guidelines elicited strong reactions from clean energy advocates and industry today, some celebrating, others outraged. Some experts said new guardrails are needed to ensure that the Biden administration’s push to develop a domestic supply chain for hydrogen doesn’t inadvertently increase pollution. Meanwhile, clean energy trade groups argued that the tax credit is now too restrictive to allow clean hydrogen production to... Continue reading…