A PC case traditionally consisted of panels on all sides to keep out dust and control airflow. There has been a steady growth in the number of PC cases available that do away with multiple panels, creating a new segment of what is known as open-air PC cases. If you frequently work on your PC or prefer to see the components exposed to the elements, you’ll want one of these open-air PC cases.

Development was well underway on Apple's next operating systems, including macOS 15 and iOS 18, before grinding to a halt for a one-week pause. The rare break from ongoing development was first reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who said the pause was announced to Apple employees internally last week. The shutdown was reportedly initiated by Craig Federighi, who is Apple's senior vice president of software engineering. Gurman says that members of Apple's senior management teams discovered a high number of bugs in its current operating systems, which lead to the break.

Microsoft killed off the standalone Cortana app in Windows 11 a few months ago. That decision was largely seen as a way to make people use the Windows Copilot instead of the Cortana app for all the things the latter helped with. There is one more name that has joined Cortana in the list of deprecated features: the Tips app.

Image: Nintendo Nintendo’s foray into movies isn’t stopping anytime soon: the company has confirmed that it’s working on a live-action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. The movie will be directed by Wes Ball, best known for the Maze Runner trilogy and the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto will serve as a producer, much as he did on this year’s animated Super Mario Bros. movie. He’ll be producing alongside Avi Arad.“This is Miyamoto. I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years now with Avi Arad-san, who has produced many mega hit films,” Miyamoto said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. We might be waiting a while for the movie, however; Miyamoto said, “It will... Continue reading…

It’s wide. | LG LG has a pair of new 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitors. That sounds very wide to me, though LG says it’s the equivalent of two 24-inch monitors, which sounds almost compact compared to the 49-inchers from Samsung and LG, or the gargantuan Samsung Odyssey Ark we tested last year. The UltraGear 45GR65DC ($799) and 45GR75DC ($899) are slightly smaller and a few hundred bucks cheaper than the 49-inch 49GR85DC, which we wisely just called the 49-inch UltraGear when we wrote about it earlier in the year. I can’t do that with these since there are two of them, but they’re basically the same except that the 45GR75DC has USB-C with 90W power delivery and the 45GR65DC doesn’t. If you preorder the fancier one before the 19th, LG will throw in a... Continue reading…

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple just released iOS 17.1.1, and it has fixes for a couple notable bugs that have popped up recently.One bug was pretty bad. Some users had reported that if they tried to charge their iPhone 15 using BMW’s in-car wireless charging, certain NFC features like Apple Pay or BMW’s digital car key would break. BMW’s UK account on X (formerly Twitter) confirmed in October that the issues were “being investigated together with Apple.” An Apple service memo reported on by MacRumors said the issue happened when charging an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max in some BMW and Toyota Supra cars.The other bug was more harmless: on the lock screen weather widget, the snow icon was sometimes showing up as just a file icon.... Continue reading…

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Soon, Instagram users will have a choice about using read receipts in direct message conversations.Mark Zuckerberg and Adam Mosseri both announced on their Instagram Broadcast channels that the change is currently in testing, and Mosseri included this picture showing the toggle as well as what it looks like in action. Image: Meta Instagram’s read receipts toggle for DMs. What they didn’t mention is if that option is coming to Messenger, which similarly forces users into using read receipts without any way to turn them off. We also have no idea how soon this could roll out more widely, but keep an eye on your conversations to see if those indicators suddenly start to disappear or if anyone is turning down your... Continue reading…

The Chrome Web Store remains an excellent resource for adding functionality to your Chrome browser or Chromebook. There are all kinds of extensions and add-ons for you to try, including themes to spice up your Chrome session and password managers for more security. The ecosystem of Chrome add-ons is really diverse but did you know there are also come games you can play there, too?

Your computer monitor is the key to productivity, but if it ends up getting dirty, we understand how it can slow you down at work, at school, or when gaming. Nobody likes seeing smudges or dust and other marks on their computer monitor. It's not only ugly, but in the right lighting conditions, it's also distracting. That's why in this guide, we'll explain how you can clean up your computer monitor in a few simple steps.

The Chamberlain MyQ smart garage door controller connects to a garage door opener so you can control it from anywhere. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The Chamberlain Group — owners of the MyQ smart garage door controller tech — has announced it’s shut off all “unauthorized access” to its APIs. The move breaks the smart home integrations of thousands of users who relied on platforms such as Homebridge and Home Assistant to do things like shut the garage door when they lock their front door or flash a light if they leave their door open for 10 minutes, or whatever other control or automation they wanted to do with the device they bought and paid for. The move comes a year after Chamberlain discontinued its official Apple HomeKit integration and a few months after it finally killed support for Google Assistant. It’s sadly another example of how the company continues to be hostile to the... Continue reading…

Very clickable good dogs. | Image: Google Google is rolling out new generative AI tools for creating ads, from writing the headlines and descriptions that appear along with searches to creating and editing the accompanying images. It’s pitching the tool for use by both advertising agencies as well as businesses without in-house creative staff. Using text prompts, advertisers can iterate on the text and images they generate until they find something they like.Google also promises that it will never generate two of the same images, which can avoid the awkward possibility that two competing businesses end up with the exact same photo elements.The step-by-step ad creator is coming to those who use Google’s Performance Max ad campaign product, and it’s capable of generating ads... Continue reading…

Grand Theft Auto V was a huge hit. | Image: Getty Rockstar Games reportedly plans to reveal Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment in the hugely popular open-world franchise, as early as this week. Bloomberg reports that an announcement could come this week, with a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI set to drop in December to mark 25 years of Rockstar Games.Rockstar first confirmed it was working on the next Grand Theft Auto in February 2022, and that active development for the unnamed title was “well underway.” Since then a report from Bloomberg claimed that Grand Theft Auto VI will feature the series’ first female protagonist, influenced by Bonnie and Clyde. Grand Theft Auto VI will also reportedly be set in a fictionalized version of Miami, similar to the location used for 2002’s G... Continue reading…