The best docking stations can solve your laptop's connectivity woes while also keeping your devices charged for when you need to leave the office. Many of the best laptops on the market today have shrunk to a size where a wide collection of ports simply isn't possible. While you can add hubs, dongles, and adapters to your workflow, the more elegant and permanent solution is a docking station.

You probably know what processor you have inside your PC, but do you know what brand and model the motherboard is? I thought not, which is why I've written this handy guide to help you quickly check. The process takes a minute or two, depending on which method you choose. The motherboard is the most vital component inside your PC. It's what connects all the various parts together, including the CPU, GPU, storage drives, and RAM.

Image: The Verge Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent. I personally experienced the bug last month, after I rebooted my PC for a regular Windows update and Microsoft Edge automatically opened with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update.I asked Microsoft repeatedly to explain why this behavior had occurred for myself and many other Windows users, but the company refused to comment. Microsoft has now quietly issued a fix in the latest Microsoft Edge update. Here’s how Microsoft describes the fix:Edge has a feature that provides an option to import browser data on each launch from other browsers with user consent. This... Continue reading…

Transparent screens, touch-sensitive keyboards, and stylus support. | Image: Evan Blass / Lenovo Leaker Evan Blass has offered another look at Lenovo’s transparent laptop concept ahead of its presumed unveiling at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month. The new leaked press image shows two of the concept laptops on a desk, with one of the devices being visible through the transparent screen of another. This is our second look at the concept device, after WindowsReport published leaked press shots of it earlier this month.See-through screens aren’t exactly a new technology. They’ve been cropping up in concept devices for over a decade, and Samsung even showed off a transparent laptop concept back at CES 2010. But 14 years later it seems like companies are ready to actually commercialize the technology. We’ve already... Continue reading…

Microsoft is going back to basics with the Windows 11 Widgets board, giving users the option to remove the news feed from view. In Windows 11 build 26058, which began rolling out to Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels earlier this week, there's now an option for a widgets-only view, which should be available to all users in the coming months.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia surpassed Alphabet in market capitalization on Wednesday, only a day after it overtook Amazon. Bloomberg is reporting that the chip maker’s stock is now worth $1.83 trillion, beating the Google owner’s $1.82 market cap by a hair. This makes Nvidia the world’s fourth most valuable company in the wake of the AI boom, after Microsoft ($3.04T), Apple ($2.84T) and Saudi Aramco. The company is currently making the H100 chip, which powers the majority of LLMs in use today, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the majority of AI projects from Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon. The world’s largest tech companies are involved in an AI chip arms race, with each of them hoping to create their own GPU chip to topple Nvidia’s virtual monopoly. Ironically,... Continue reading…

Following its successful deployment, the Nova-C spacecraft now faces a two-week journey to reach the Moon’s south pole. | Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images A robotic lunar lander built by private aerospace company Intuitive Machines was successfully launched by SpaceX on Thursday, with hopes of being the first American spacecraft to successfully touch down on the Moon’s surface since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The Nova-C lander named “Odysseus” was carried into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral at 1:05AM ET on February 15th.The launch was originally scheduled to take place on Wednesday but was delayed due to concerns regarding the temperature of the rocket’s methane fuel. Shortly after liftoff, SpaceX confirmed that the IM-1 mission’s Odysseus lander had been successfully deployed and that the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that delivered it into... Continue reading…

Google released the ChromeOS 117 update last September, and it's packed with several useful features. However, what many didn't notice when the update first rolled out was support for audible effects for power state changes in Chromebook devices. But now that it's here, Google has explained key details about how it developed those sound effects.

Are you struggling to find room on your desk to fit your PC? Well, what if your desk was the PC? This is what Lian Li is achieving with its new PC case, as all of the PC's hardware is kept inside the very desk you sit at.

Image: General Motors General Motors may be struggling when it comes to fully autonomous driving, but the company is still feeling bullish about the future of hands-free driving. Today, it announced plans to expand its Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system, which allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel on certain roads, to cover nearly double the number of miles it did before. Today, Super Cruise is operational on 400,000 miles of road in the US and Canada. The company plans on adding around 40,000 miles of new roads every quarter over the course of two years, so by the end of 2025, Super Cruise will cover approximately 750,000 miles in the US and Canada. Launched in 2017 with the Cadillac CT6, Super Cruise uses information from... Continue reading…

Everybody knows about multi-GPU gaming setups, which were the spectacle of the previous decade. But did you know that mainstream GPUs that had more than one chip on their PCB used to exist? These rendering beasts have been around since 1997, with the Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 402 being one of the first with not two, but four GPU chips on a single PCB.

Google’s description of the feature in Search Labs. | Image: Sterling Google is testing a new “Talk to a Live Representative” feature that allows the company’s software to call a business on your behalf, navigate through its phone tree, wait on hold, and then notify you when there’s a real human being available for you to speak to. The test, which is available now as a Search Labs experimental feature, was spotted by X user Sterling.As 9to5Google notes, the feature sounds a lot like the Pixel’s “Hold for Me,” but with a couple of key advantages. First, it’s available across all phones rather than just the Pixel 3 and newer. And second, “Talk to a Live Representative” offers to actually proactively call a business on your behalf, rather than being something you enable once you’ve already placed a call and... Continue reading…