When I first got into 3D printing, I treated infill like a strength slider. If 10% was decent, then 20% had to be better, and 50% sounded even safer. That logic felt reasonable when I was still learning what actually made a print durable. It also led me to burn through far more filament than I needed, adding print time to almost everything I made. Looking back, I think infill is one of the most misunderstood slicer settings for everyday printing.

Last year, Dell did us dirty by changing the XPS name to the Dell 16 Premium, and while the hardware was still good, the name sucked. To their eternal credit, the company listened to its fans, and the XPS name is back for 2026.

We've seen the rise of SSD prices over the past year or so, and it doesn't look like things will be changing anytime soon. So, when we get even a small deviation from the norm in terms of new pricing, it's usually a signal to pick up some storage, that is, if you really need it.

I had built a solid monitoring setup for my homelab. I had visibility for uptime, system metrics, and network performance, but everything was scattered around separate dashboards. Portainer gave me basic information about my containers; Beszel gave the system metrics; Uptime Kuma gave the services' health; and Speedtest Tracker gave the network performance.

There are plenty of options out there when it comes to budget mice, but if you want something reliable and cheap, we think these are some of the options that stand out from the rest. The G502 and G305, both of which come from Logitech, are fan favorites, offering plenty of features for great prices. You can't really go wrong here if you're looking for something new.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has struggled for years to have enough air traffic controllers to address shortages, with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) saying in January that the number of people in the job in the US has declined by around 6 percent "in the last decade." Now the Trump administration is rolling out a recruiting campaign targeting gamers ahead of the opening of the annual air traffic control hiring window on April 17th.Even with the campaign, getting qualified individuals through training and into the role may still be a challenge: according to the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector …Read the full story at The Verge.

It’s probably safe to say NotebookLM has been, and often still is, my go-to for a study sesh. It’s so easy yet so practical - you dump stuff in, ask questions, test your knowledge, and call it a day. The answers would point to something real instead of just sounding confident or affirming whatever’s in your prompt. Then other AI tools came into the mix, and they’ve stepped up their game in the study department.

Earlier this year, a relatively unknown startup from Finland made a startling announcement: It had finally solved solid-state batteries.Not only that, but Donut Lab, a spinoff of Verge Motorcycles, said that its solid-state battery - long considered the "Holy Grail of batteries" for their high-density, durable, fast-charging abilities - would go into production later this year.Battery experts were understandably skeptical. After all, solid-state batteries are one of those technologies, along with artificial general intelligence and the hyperloop, that seem perpetually two years away. And while most legitimate efforts in this field - whet …Read the full story at The Verge.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft confirmed plans to scale back Windows 11's Copilot integration as part of a broader effort to improve the operating system. Now, it looks like those removal efforts are beginning.

It's every social anxiety-ridden remote worker's nightmare; you attend a town hall meeting, unmute your mic when it's your turn to speak, and begin your well-planned-out speech. Suddenly, the chat fills up with messages about your mic being too quiet, or too loud, or perhaps it sounds like you're underwater for some reason. Now you have to fix that before you can salvage your talk.

A lot of people blame their 3D printer when prints take forever. It’s an easy assumption to make, especially when the machine is right there moving back and forth like it’s stuck in molasses. But in plenty of cases, the hardware isn’t the real problem. The bigger issue is that the slicer is quietly telling the printer to work in the most time-wasting way possible.

Warp started out as a faster, prettier terminal. It used blocks instead of raw text, a modern input field, GPU rendering, and a UI that didn’t feel stuck in the 80s. But that version of Warp is basically gone now. What you’re looking at today is something else entirely.