Not every app you try works the first time. I have hundreds installed and often find myself stumbling onto an old one that I'd written off too soon, only to realize it's actually fantastic. Sometimes all it takes is a different setup, or perhaps different life circumstances that now require a curated stack. Notes apps fall into this category too, especially Obsidian.

Most ATX and micro-ATX motherboards come with more headers than the average builder has uses for. On average, even a really savvy builder will only ever use 6 to 7 headers out of the available 18–20, and that number goes down further if one doesn't care about RGB features or goes for an air cooling solution instead of an AIO.

Between customers explaining what they need when building a PC and meeting four days out of five, I spend a frankly ridiculous amount of time turning spoken instructions into text. The conversations are rarely short, either, and missing one detail can mean going through an entire recording just to find what mattered.

Not all SD cards are built the same, and it's really common to have a 'go-to' brand when purchasing new cards. But how does your favorite SD card manufacturer perform when put under stress? After all, there are times when speed isn't the best quality, such as when you're using one with a Raspberry Pi. One Redditor has tested just under 300 SD cards to find out, and as it turns out, they listed one of my preferred makes of SD cards as not very reliable.

Reddit is trying out a new way for people to take in content on Reddit: by turning text posts into audio / video content. As part of an experiment, some posts are being adapted into videos that use AI voices to read the text of the main post and some comments. The video highlights the text as it's read by the AI voice, and under the video, a note says that it's a "Real conversation voiced by AI."An old post in r/boardgames from eight years ago with 101 responses to a request for good road trip games that adults will like is an example of Reddit's AI at work. Instead of the usual text thread, it has the main question above a three-minute vi …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'll admit something embarrassing for someone who writes about display tech for a living. My last TV ran in its factory picture mode for the better part of a year. I'd taken weeks agonizing over panel types, my budget, and peak brightness numbers, and when it arrived, I plugged it in and ignored any of the settings. Now, to be fair, I use an Apple TV 4K with any display I watch movies on, and it's set to Dolby Vision mode, so I might not have noticed the TV was in a subpar setting.

As the world wakes up to its reliance on US tech, some countries are doing their best to move away from it. A few months ago, we saw the French government move away from Windows, calling its own dependence on US tech a strategic risk. Now, China is following suit by fast-tracking its plans to remove Windows from its government offices, replacing them with in-country Linux alternatives.

GIMP has gone from strength to strength in recent months. Back in March, we saw the introduction of non-destructive Link Layers that didn't lose fidelity no matter how much you squashed and stretched them. Now, the team has revealed that it's digging into the default project file format introduced in 1997 to give GIMP a more modern feel.

Whenever I feel I’m in the right headspace to start working on my essays and writing scripts, I’m usually away from my PC. I needed something portable, accessible, and nice to type on. I dug through my drawers for inspiration and had a lightbulb moment when I found my old phone, which I've tried to repurpose multiple times. None of those purposes have ever stuck long-term, but I think a distraction-free writing device might finally be the project that will make it thrive in its final years.

ChatGPT for Teens includes safeguards and parental controls. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their own age checks and teen-specific protections. ChatGPT for Teens is "an experience designed to help teens learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence," OpenAI said in a blog post published Tuesday. Teen mode will automatically apply to users who identify themselves as being between the ages of 13 and 17, as well as those the system estimates to be under 1 …Read the full story at The Verge.

The AirPods in the video look like a chunkier version of Apple’s AirPods Pro 3. | Image: Apple / MacRumors We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The short video clip features a man - who is wearing the new AirPods - holding up a book with the cover displayed, so that Visual Intelligence can see the book title. A Siri voice-over plays over the clip, saying "with Visual Intelligence, your world becomes savable. See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later." Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has previously reported that the rumored AirPods with cameras are designed to take in "visual information in low resolution" and act as eyes …Read the full story at The Verge.

On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed the White House inside his Marine One military helicopter. As Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) protocol requires, the pilots tried to contact Reagan National Airport to tell them to halt commercial traffic during the flight. But the air traffic controllers never heard the transmission and cleared a different airplane for takeoff - which came clo …Read the full story at The Verge.