Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Drive users on iOS are getting a new scanning feature that lets them quickly photograph documents and add them to their libraries, the search giant has announced. The feature has been available for Android for over a decade, but until now iPhone and iPad users haven’t had the same option. Google has also upgraded the scanner in Drive’s Android app.iPhone users in the US will also benefit from a new title suggestion feature that attempts to auto-generate a document title based on text it recognizes in the scan. The feature previously came to the Android version of Drive earlier this year. Google also says it’s improving document scanning on Android, adding similar features like the option to automatically capture documents when... Continue reading…

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard of Valve's Steam Deck. It's a gaming handheld that has one significant leg up over other traditional handhelds in the industry: It plays PC games. Forget the Nintendo Switch. Valve has taken that form factor, strapped rockets to it, and flown further than Nintendo has ever gone.

Valve's Steam Deck is a capable handheld video game console that lets you enjoy a vast collection of games as soon as you pull it out of the box. But you also have the option to level up your experience by investing in some useful accessories. For instance, you can purchase a Steam Deck dock to connect it to a gaming monitor, keyboard, and mouse, or you can get a compatible controller. You can also buy wireless earbuds that offer a low latency mode to enjoy games with crystal-clear audio even when you're in public spaces. If you've just bought yourself a shiny new Steam Deck, I recommend buying the following accessories to enhance your gaming experience.

The RTX 4090 is a powerhouse graphics card capable of running even the most demanding modern AAA game titles at 4k (CPU bottlenecks aside). It’s easily the most powerful GPU on the planet right now, unless NASA’s keeping something from us, with a price point to reflect it. That said, upgrading your rig with one can be a little confusing when it comes to matching devices to ports, and one question that a lot of people have is what PCIe version the 4090 uses, and if making the most of its power requires an upgrade to your motherboard. Well, we’re here to sort it all out for you.

In recent years, market conditions, geopolitics, and cryptocurrencies created a perfect storm to force graphics card pricing upwards. It was already tough to buy GPUs on a budget unless you were content with a functional graphics card that would display your desktop but not much in the way of playing games. Nvidia, and to a lesser extent AMD, have all but abandoned the budget range. Even Intel, which is now making discrete graphics cards, decided to aim for the low-to-mid market. That means that with a few exceptions, the value-conscious PC user has to choose between older cards. Below the $300 mark, they won't be the best graphics cards, but can still handle 1080p gaming, and a few cards on this list can manage 1440p gaming at decent framerates.

Photo by Mike Kemp / In Pictures via Getty Images Uber notched another win in its effort to win over the beleaguered taxi industry, announcing a plan to start listing London’s famed black cabbies in its app. The service won’t roll out until early 2024, but some London cabbies have already begun to sign up. Uber says all 15,000 of London’s cab drivers “will now have the opportunity” to sign up for Uber trip referrals. The company recently brokered deals with taxi fleet owners in New York City, Paris, Rome, and Los Angeles to list drivers in its app. Next to New York’s yellow cabs, the black cabbies of London are arguably the most iconic taxis in the world. Not only is this a symbolic victory for Uber but also it could help build trust with taxi owners who may still be wary of Uber’s... Continue reading…

PCI Express, or PCIe, remains a crucial part of computing devices as one of the primary interconnects for connecting various components like GPUs, SSDs, capture cards, and more to your computing device. PCIe 5.0 peripherals entered the computing scene only in 2021 alongside the launch of Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, but there are already a bunch of them available on the market, with plenty more on the horizon. But what is PCIe 5.0, and how is it different from Gen 4? Also, do you really need to upgrade from PCIe Gen 4? There's a lot to unpack when it comes to PCI Express 5.0, so here's everything you need to know about this relatively new standard.

It's almost the end of the month, which means that it is time yet again to recap all the features that Microsoft added to Excel in the past four weeks. Following a bunch of additions to Excel in October 2023, the Redmond tech giant has now shared a list of capabilities it introduced to its spreadsheet software this month. That said, the list this time around isn't particularly lengthy.

The Steam Deck used to rule supreme as one of the best handhelds for gaming, but tons of Steam Deck alternatives have since popped up. Some of these are more powerful than others, like the Asus ROG Ally, and the Legion Go. But one that is a little more controversial and one that people have argued is not worth the $350 price tag is the Logitech G Cloud.

If you have an iPhone and a Windows PC, transferring files between the two is as seamless as transferring files between an Android phone and a PC. Along with the traditional iTunes method, many other ways have popped up over the years, making the file transfer process relatively easy between, say, your great laptop and iPhone.

Image: Capcom A few weeks ago, Capcom announced that it would put on a showcase for Dragon’s Dogma 2. The livestream just wrapped up, showing off roughly 15 minutes of new gameplay, information, a trailer, and a release date: March 22nd. Check out the video here.The release date wasn’t exactly the newest of news. Hours before the livestream began on November 28th, the game’s Steam page accidentally leaked that you’d be able to dogma your dragons on March 21st. The livestream confirmed that the actual release date is a day later, with Dragon’s Dogma 2 sharing a release date with one of my most anticipated games of 2024, Princess Peach: Showtime! (Interestingly, Steam has not yet updated the page which still shows March 21st.)The showcase debuted a... Continue reading…

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky | Noah Berger Amazon’s cloud business AWS launched a chat tool called Amazon Q, where businesses can ask questions specific to their companies.Announced during a keynote speech by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Q acts like an AI assistant where users can ask questions about their businesses using their data. For example, employees can query Amazon Q on the company’s latest guidelines for logo usage or understand another engineer’s code to maintain an app. Q can surface the information instead of the employee sifting through dozens of documents. Users can access Amazon Q through the AWS Management Console or individual companies’ documentation pages, developer environments like Slack, and other third-party apps. Selipsky noted that... Continue reading…