If you listened to music on your PC at any time during the late 90s to early 00s, there's a good chance you used Winamp. The software has been trying new things to regain its former glory. It previously tried opening up its source code for community development, though that project faced license pushback and was eventually pulled. Now, it has announced it's teaming up with Deezer to supply Winamp with music streaming capabilities.

SwitchBot Battery Circulator Fan 2 Pro is smart, powerful, and portable. | Image: SwitchBot I was already a big fan of SwitchBot's big circulator fan I recently reviewed, and now we're getting the SwitchBot Battery Circulator Fan 2 Pro. Priced at $119.99, it ditches the height-adjustable stand but increases battery life, throw distance, and wind speed while adding native Matter-over-Wi-Fi, allowing it to join your smart home without needing a separate SwitchBot Hub.The compact Fan 2 Pro is designed to be carried anywhere and move air around medium-sized rooms, a balcony, or family tent. It features a big 3,600mAh battery for up to 70 hours of very quiet (21dB), cordless operation at low speed, or four hours on max. It can operate …Read the full story at The Verge.

One of the most common complaints on Discord and other gaming chat rooms is the party chat dropping mid-game. Someone always points to a commonly cited fix of putting a game console behind the DMZ. I’ve done it myself more than once before I knew better. That’s why it works as a fix, even for half a minute.

My notes were everywhere: half-finished ideas in apps, useful conversations buried in chat history, research saved in random folders, and important context in different documents. I had plenty of information, but retrieving the right details when I needed them was becoming harder than collecting them in the first place.

Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot takes a baseball glove off of a shelf. | Image: Google Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday.The new model will allow humanoid robots to perform a wider range of actions, as it allows them to walk, crouch, stretch, and manipulate objects. Videos shared by Google show how Apptronik's Apollo 2 robot can bend over to pick up a watering can, as well as find and take specific items off a shelf. Though Google DeepMind not …Read the full story at The Verge.

Planning a group trip always sounds exciting until everyone starts dropping restaurant links, sightseeing suggestions, and hotel locations into the same chaotic group chat.

Buying multiple lamps for different rooms can get expensive. Govee’s rechargeable Table Lamp Classic gives you one lamp you can use throughout your home instead of getting one for every room, and right now it’s down to $59 ($21 off) at Amazon. That’s just $4 shy of the all-time low set during Prime Day, and the smart lamp’s second-best price to date.Govee Table Lamp ClassicWhere to Buy: $79.99 $59.99 at Amazon $79.99 $63.99 at GoveeBecause it’s cordless, the lamp is surprisingly versatile. You can use it to brighten your desk during the day, keep it by your bedside at night, and even carry it to the patio for dinner (just don’t forget to bring it back inside if it’s expected to rain, as the lamp isn’t weather-resistant). A built-in 4,800mAh battery powers the lamp for up to 30 hours with colored lighting enabled, or about five hours when using bright white light, so you don’t need to worry about staying near an outlet. Despite being small and light enough to carry from room to room, the Table Lamp Classic offers many of the same smart lighting features found on Govee’s bigger lamps. It lets you tweak the color temperature, cycle through 72 preset scenes, and sync the lighting to your music, making it easy to match the mood whether you’re studying, unwinding, or enjoying a date night. If you have something more specific in mind, Govee’s app can even generate a custom effect from a short text prompt. Since it supports Matter, you won’t have to reach for the Govee app every time you move the lamp to a different room, either. Instead, you can control it with your voice through your favorite smart home platform.

COSMIC is quickly becoming my favorite desktop environment, but it's by no means perfect. It's not due to bad programming, though; it only got its first stable release back in December 2025, so it still needs some time to mature and receive bug fixes. Such is the case with COSMIC version 1.5, which squashes a few nasty issues such as the panels hogging your CPU whenever you lock your computer.

Like other recent DJI products, the Pocket 4P won’t launch in the US. DJI's Osmo Pocket 4P is a pretty simple proposition: an Osmo Pocket 4 with a second camera lens slapped inside. But is that extra lens worth the added size, weight, and cost relative to the regular Pocket 4? And how does it compare to the only rival on the market, Insta360's dual-lens Luna Ultra? It depends on what you're filming. But I think most prospective buyers would get plenty of use out of the 4P's 3x telephoto lens, and its quality is certainly impressive. Meanwhile, DJI has managed to undercut Insta360 on price while at least matching it on quality. For most, this will be the better buy, though the Luna Ultra has one major advanta …Read the full story at The Verge.

The latest discovery from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the unusual terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches wide, but NASA says it's previously only found them in small patches, "nothing on the scale discovered in Valle Grande." Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama of the "sea of polygons" on June 19th and 20th (Martian sols 4,930 and 4,931) that shows the texture spreading out in all directions. Project scientist Ashwin Vasavada says the Curiosity team "measur …Read the full story at The Verge.

ABC filed its formal opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's effort to force it to submit to an early renewal of its broadcast station licenses, calling it an effort to chill the speech of broadcasters across the country.In a new filing with the FCC, ABC charges that the agency's willingness to pursue the early renewal of eight of its licenses far before they expire is "extraordinary and unprecedented." The company alleges the FCC "has spent the last 18 months searching for some pretext for revoking the Stations' licenses," but charges that the agency's real motivations for pursuing these licenses are clear: "Each is owned by …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ever since I bought a new OLED, I have propped up my previous IPS display on a new monitor arm, and it became the permanent residence for all my emails, chats, and work-related messages, handling other stuff like Discord, documents, and the occasional browser tab as well. That's how everyone usually uses their dual-monitor setup, but one afternoon, out of curiosity, I flipped the arrangement and made the portrait display my primary monitor instead.