Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has shared some new AI-focused offerings at its annual AWS conference. Continue reading…

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard of Valve's Steam Deck. It's a gaming handheld that has one significant leg up over other traditional handhelds in the industry: It plays PC games. Forget the Nintendo Switch. Valve has taken that form factor, strapped rockets to it, and flown further than Nintendo has ever gone.

Image: Amazon Amazon’s Echo Frames strategy is to skip the visual augmented reality features of other “smart glasses” and deliver regular-looking glasses with the Alexa voice assistant built in. If this sounds like a valuable addition to your life, you’re in luck, as the new third-generation Echo Frames are now available to preorder on Amazon, and there’s a $75 discount available. What The Verge’s David Pierce pointed out from his preview earlier this fall is that the biggest differences in the new Frames are as much about form as function — this latest iteration is a lighter, better-balanced version than its previous counterparts, with more stylish and colorful options available. Given that the only option in the first generation of the Echo Frames... Continue reading…

The Samsung 990 Pro is one of the best SSDs on the market. The drive is extremely capable, delivering blazing fast speeds, and it's also extremely reliable. Although this will be the perfect upgrade for any laptop or desktop PC, you're also going to be able to use this drive for a PlayStation 5 too.

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky | Noah Berger Amazon’s cloud business AWS launched a chat tool called Amazon Q, where businesses can ask questions specific to their companies.Announced during a keynote speech by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Q acts like an AI assistant where users can ask questions about their businesses using their data. For example, employees can query Amazon Q on the company’s latest guidelines for logo usage or understand another engineer’s code to maintain an app. Q can surface the information instead of the employee sifting through dozens of documents. Users can access Amazon Q through the AWS Management Console or individual companies’ documentation pages, developer environments like Slack, and other third-party apps. Selipsky noted that... Continue reading…

There's no shortage of web browsers on Windows 11, but now a new one has entered the fray. Indeed, you can now try out Samsung's own web browser, appropriately called Samsung Internet, on Windows PCs.

PCI Express, or PCIe, remains a crucial part of computing devices as one of the primary interconnects for connecting various components like GPUs, SSDs, capture cards, and more to your computing device. PCIe 5.0 peripherals entered the computing scene only in 2021 alongside the launch of Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, but there are already a bunch of them available on the market, with plenty more on the horizon. But what is PCIe 5.0, and how is it different from Gen 4? Also, do you really need to upgrade from PCIe Gen 4? There's a lot to unpack when it comes to PCI Express 5.0, so here's everything you need to know about this relatively new standard.

In recent years, market conditions, geopolitics, and cryptocurrencies created a perfect storm to force graphics card pricing upwards. It was already tough to buy GPUs on a budget unless you were content with a functional graphics card that would display your desktop but not much in the way of playing games. Nvidia, and to a lesser extent AMD, have all but abandoned the budget range. Even Intel, which is now making discrete graphics cards, decided to aim for the low-to-mid market. That means that with a few exceptions, the value-conscious PC user has to choose between older cards. Below the $300 mark, they won't be the best graphics cards, but can still handle 1080p gaming, and a few cards on this list can manage 1440p gaming at decent framerates.

Over the past few years, innovations like Resizable BAR have begun to capture the attention of enthusiasts and gamers alike. Both Nvidia and AMD have made Resizable BAR support available on their GPUs, promising noticeable performance improvements. But what exactly is Resizable BAR, and how can it impact your computing experience?

It’s a Macintosh! Only smaller! And made by Ayaneo! | Image: Ayaneo Ayaneo, which is mostly known for making handheld gaming consoles, just fully revealed the new Retro Mini PC AM01 after teasing it a few weeks ago. It says it plans to ship the AM01 before the end of the year — and I’d be lying if I said I’m not tempted to get one. The AM01 won’t win any benchmarking contests, but it’ll almost certainly be the best-looking computer you own. Let’s just state the obvious here: Ayaneo says it’s “paying homage” to the Macintosh, which is a kind way of saying, “We copied the thing pretty much exactly.” This device is the spitting image of Apple’s ’80s-era computer, right down to the floppy drive and the rainbow sticker. (Ayaneo made the sticker a flag shape instead of an apple, though — there’s paying homage... Continue reading…

Image: Capcom A few weeks ago, Capcom announced that it would put on a showcase for Dragon’s Dogma 2. The livestream just wrapped up, showing off roughly 15 minutes of new gameplay, information, a trailer, and a release date: March 22nd. Check out the video here.The release date wasn’t exactly the newest of news. Hours before the livestream began on November 28th, the game’s Steam page accidentally leaked that you’d be able to dogma your dragons on March 21st. The livestream confirmed that the actual release date is a day later, with Dragon’s Dogma 2 sharing a release date with one of my most anticipated games of 2024, Princess Peach: Showtime! (Interestingly, Steam has not yet updated the page which still shows March 21st.)The showcase debuted a... Continue reading…

If you have an iPhone and a Windows PC, transferring files between the two is as seamless as transferring files between an Android phone and a PC. Along with the traditional iTunes method, many other ways have popped up over the years, making the file transfer process relatively easy between, say, your great laptop and iPhone.