Sometimes, I feel that years pass by without leaving their mark, fading into each other and losing their individual identity. It feels just like yesterday when I built my first-ever PC with a humble dual-core Intel CPU back in 2007. From those days of playing game demo discs to death to barely finding time to play anything on my Zen 3 Ryzen gaming rig, my PC has been a steady companion.

Media files sent as documents don’t display a preview in WhatsApp, but you can view them in-app by tapping on them. | Illustration: The Verge WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature on iOS that allows users to share photos and videos as a document to preserve their original quality. As spotted by WABetaInfo the official changelog provided alongside WhatsApp’s 23.24.73 update on iOS notes that users can now “easily send original quality media as a file,” as an alternative to the compressed approaches the communications app defaults to.This feature was spotted being tested by a small subset of users in November, but is now releasing to all iOS users. The changelog notes that this is rolling out “over the coming weeks” so it may take a while to appear on your device, but when it does you can access it by tapping the “+” in chat, selecting “Document” and then “Choose Photo or... Continue reading…

Image: Pophouse Entertainment Kiss has been on a really, really long tour. The biggest glam rock band of all time has been playing its End of the Road tour for the last four years, and just wrapped the final show of its final farewell tour in New York City at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Kiss has done several farewell tours, but this time might be for good.At the end of the show, after Kiss finished playing its last song (“Rock and Roll All Nite”), they disappeared in a hail of fire and smoke. After the smoke faded away, the lights went down, and on the screen behind the stage, a camera zoomed across a spooky lake on some fantastic planet toward the silhouettes of four figures: the new digital avatars of Kiss, in what I suppose must be their final form. Then... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know you’ve been waiting all year to hear this: You can use Zoom on your 2nd gen or later Apple TV 4K. Yesterday, AppleInsider spotted a post from Sigmund Judge about the “Zoom - for Home TV” app that quietly showed up in the tvOS App Store. Earlier this year, Apple’s tvOS 17 update enabled Continuity Camera for the Apple TV, making it possible for anyone with a 2nd-generation-or-later version of the streaming box to use their iPhone or iPad as a webcam for FaceTime on a TV. The iPhone can do the same thing for meetings on macOS. Image: Wes Davis / The Verge Zoom on an Apple TV. Using Zoom’s new app is fairly straightforward. Logging into it is a lot like signing into most third-party video streaming apps —... Continue reading…

Are you starting to notice lag in games that ran perfectly well before, or perhaps your graphics card is overheating, and the fans have become louder than normal? This is what we call thermal throttling, and it happens when the thermal paste on your GPU dries out. Thermal paste is an essential part of your GPU, helping it run smoothly and transferring heat away from the GPU's processing unit.

If you're interested in tinkering around with computers and want to build something of your own, you may want to start off small. Rather than putting together an entire PC by yourself, you may want to learn the basics, especially when it comes to the motherboard. That's where the Raspberry Pi comes in. Raspberry Pi are single-board computers that hold the memory, IO ports, and CPU all on one motherboard. You can choose to use your SBC as a computer, or you can utilize it to automate some of what's going on in your home, like running and setting up lights, controlling robots, or other home hobbyist chores.

Bose makes some of the best American audio equipment you can get on the market, and it’s easy to understand why, as the company has almost 60 years of experience creating powerful speakers, headsets, soundbars, and more. Right now, you can get your hands on a new pair of Bose’s amazing QuietComfort Earbuds II for just $199 thanks to the latest 29 percent discount, which makes these small but mighty wireless earbuds the perfect option for anyone looking to get great audio at a reasonable price.

Now that there is some much-needed competition in the foldable space, the form factor is poised to finally fulfill its promise of delivering a tablet experience in a pocketable size. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 showed us what a polished foldable looks like, and the Google Pixel Fold revealed what new ideas can bring to the category. Now, the OnePlus Open is blending the best of the two to make a completely new product. That's without mentioning the brands that are doing impressive things with foldables that aren't sold in the North American markets.

Trackpads are ubiquitous on all the best laptops, even though Lenovo is still shipping the infamous trackpoint on some of its products today. But if you glance over to the desktop space, trackpads are a rarity. Mice have dominated the desktop market for a while, and it's pretty easy to figure out why. First, the mouse started as the primary way to interact with desktops when the graphical user interface went mainstream. The trackpad wouldn't come until 1994 and debuted on a laptop.

If you find Windows' default tools lacking, you should give PowerToys a try. PowerToys is a pack of tools developed and supported by Microsoft that adds a ton of features, quality-of-life updates, and tweaks to the operating system. Now, PowerToys has released version v0.76.0, and it contains a heap of features, fixes, and visual upgrades.

Aside from their blazing-fast speeds, SSDs are typically more reliable than hard drives. But that doesn’t mean they’re infallible. In fact, constantly subjecting your old SSD to write operations will make it vulnerable to bad sectors, corruption, and other issues.

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify is laying off 17 percent of its employees in an attempt to cut costs, its CEO Daniel Ek announced to staff today. Based on its total headcount of 9,241 revealed during its last earnings release, the cuts are expected to impact over 1,500 people.In a memo sent to staff, Ek said slowing economic growth and rising costs were to blame for the cuts, which he said would make Spotify a leaner company. “Today, we still have too many people dedicated to supporting work and even doing work around the work rather than contributing to opportunities with real impact,” Ek wrote. “As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core principle of resourcefulness,” he later added.“As we’ve grown, we’ve moved too far away from this core... Continue reading…