After seeing Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey for the first time early last week, I came away impressed, but somewhat conflicted about two of the film's more fantastical set pieces. While those scenes were beautifully crafted and tremendously acted, there was something a little bit off about the way they hit my eye. I spent days wondering what, exactly, wasn't quite working for me during that first theatrical viewing, and I thought that might have just been splitting hairs. But it wasn't until I saw the movie again over the weekend - this time in IMAX - that the issue became crystal clear.Though I'd heard all of the buzz about The Odyssey b …Read the full story at The Verge.

Obsidian's been my go-to note-taking app on and off for years, and I've built a whole system around it that mostly works. By "system" I mean junk drawer style where you know a declutter is due, but you're so used to the mess that it somehow works. So I went looking for tips to sort it out, and figured I might as well see how the CEO himself does it. Turns out Steph Ango, who's been running Obsidian since early 2023, publishes his entire personal vault on his blog as a downloadable template. Pretty hard to say no to that.

Borderlands 3 is among the 15 games in the 2K Megahits 2026 Bundle. | 2K Games The aptly-named “2K Megahits 2026 Bundle” from Humble includes 15 Steam games for $15. It’s a smattering of the publisher 2K’s biggest games of the 2010s, including BioShock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands 3, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The bundle will be available until August 7th, though the bundle page notes that keys for some games are already starting to run low. All of the games work on Windows, while some support MacOS and SteamOS.2K Megahits 2026 BundleWhere to Buy: $465 $15 at HumbleOne of my personal favorite games, Risk of Rain 2, is included in the bundle. In the third-person roguelike, you’ll face off against increasingly difficult waves of enemies, fighting to stay alive as long as you can and collecting power-ups and useful perks before extracting to the next zone to do it all again. It’s just challenging enough to make victory satisfying, and fun to play alone or with friends. You also get 2012’s XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a legendary turn-based strategy game that’s usually $15 on its own, to give you a sense of the bundle’s value.The bundle also notably includes three games from the Borderlands universe. Borderlands 3 Special Edition is a traditional looter-shooter FPS, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands adds RPG elements like an overworld map and spellcasting, and Tales from the Borderlands is an interactive episodic visual novel from Telltale Games. You’ll also get a variety of shooters, including BioShock Infinite, Duke Nukem 3D, Bulletstorm, plus Hidden and Dangerous from the turn of the millenium.Part of the proceeds from the bundle benefit Covenant House, an organization that benefits young people facing homelessness, as well as the publisher and Humble. You can adjust how you pledge is split between the beneficiaries by clicking the button that says “adjust donation” under the checkout button.You can find the full list of games in the bundle below:Risk of Rain 2Borderlands 3 Standard EditionMafia II: Definitive EditionBioShock InfiniteTiny Tina’s WonderlandsThe QuarryTribes of Midgard Deluxe EditionHomeworld Remastered CollectionTales from the Borderlands Bulletstorm Full Clip EditionDuke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World TourHidden and Dangerous BundleThe Darkness IIX-COM: UFO DefenseXCOM Enemy Unknown

Linus Torvalds is no stranger to making headlines, but his latest intervention in the Linux kernel community has caused a particular stir. Responding to a mailing-list discussion about Sashiko, an AI-powered system that reviews proposed kernel patches, Torvalds declared that Linux is not an "anti-AI project." His language was characteristically blunt, but the argument underneath it was pragmatic: AI tools can be useful, provided they help human maintainers rather than burying them in additional work.

We all have our ideal desk setups in either our own homes or offices, but what about when you move away from your desk and need to do things on the go? Some of us might be okay with just a tablet, phone or laptop, but other folks might need proper accessories to make them work better.

AUUUUUGH | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX - a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpriced - is fast-tracked into the Nasdaq-100? Does it suddenly threaten the stability of index funds based on the Nasdaq-100? Can a $1.77 trillion IPO crater the retirement funds of regular people who would ordinarily have no interest in investing in Elon Musk's meme stock?The answer has less to do with SpaceX and more to do with index funds - how they work, their history, and why they've …Read the full story at The Verge.

Call me nostalgic, but retro games are one of my favorite ways to entertain myself, whether on a long flight or during downtime at the end of a long day. There are a few things that help me unwind, like a good old-school JRPG. I'm clearly not alone, given the breadth of retro-emulation handhelds on the market. I tend to use older Android phones for the task simply because they are powerful enough and have long-lasting batteries, and I already tend to have one or a few sitting around.

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on Monday, claims that this list represents "only a small portion of Plaintiffs' works that Udio infringed," as reported earlier by Music Business Worldwide.In 2024, Sony, along with Universal Music Group and Warner Records, filed a lawsuit against Udio and the AI music-maker Suno. After gaining access to Udio's training data through discovery, Sony cla …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Skyrover X1 vs the DJI Mini 4 Pro. | Image: AirPhotography Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC's getting ready to wield that power for the first time, by cracking down on the "DJI front companies" suspected of sneaking the Chinese company's tech past its foreign drone ban.Two Fridays ago, the FCC had already proposed a $25,000 fine on eight of those "front companies," including the ones behind the Skyrover drones and Xtra cameras. But now, the FCC is proposing a lot more than a slap-on-the-wrist - it's planning to ban those same companies from …Read the full story at The Verge.

I used to be that guy who had CCleaner installed to remove temporary files, browser cache, and other junk, despite all the controversies surrounding it. But once I discovered Storage Sense in Windows 11 a little over two years ago, I was finally comfortable getting rid of the third-party app altogether. At first, I was glad I didn't have to micromanage cleanup anymore. It ran automatically in the background, and I had it set to run once a month.

The ornament requires three 1.5-volt coin batteries, which are included in the box. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner/The Verge You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the color-filled PlayStation logo if your console recognizes the disc. How badly I wanted my sorta-broken console to get to that second screen.My console's disc spindle came apart pretty early into me owning it. As an eight-year-old kid, fixing the spindle was the riskiest undertaking of my life yet. The internet wasn't really a haven for how-tos yet, so I superglued that …Read the full story at The Verge.

AMD has a firm grip on the gaming handheld market. Sure, you'll see an avalanche of cheaper Android-powered devices without Intel or AMD chips, but there's a good chance you'll buy an AMD-equipped handheld for modern high-quality gaming. Like other devices, there's a fairly rapid product cycle, leaving you in the dust if you buy a gaming handheld at the wrong time. But later versions of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), specifically FSR 4.1, could change this for the better.