When most people get a new GPU, they either sell the old one for cheap or leave it sitting on a shelf to collect dust. I get that, though. Once you have a much more powerful card, there's hardly any reason to think about the old one. I remember selling my used RTX 3090 for half the price I bought it at when I upgraded to my RTX 4090, and at the time, it felt like a great deal, especially considering I mined on it. The card had already served its purpose in my mind, so cashing out seemed like the obvious move.

NotebookLM sets itself apart from many other AI chatbots because of the ability to ground its responses in specific sources. While many other generative AI tools scrape data from across the web, NotebookLM specifically cites the files and websites you add to your notebooks.

Just like your motherboard, your SSD has firmware that governs every drive operation. You might never have updated your drive's firmware, or even have known it existed — you could be suffering due to outdated firmware without even being aware of it. Up-to-date firmware ensures your SSD isn't left behind when the manufacturer patches major performance and stability bugs. However, it's not just speed and efficiency that you lose out on; it's your data integrity. The effects of outdated firmware usually become apparent after a while, at which point it may be too late to save your critical data. Hence, keeping your SSD firmware updated is part of regular PC maintenance that no one should ignore.

I've always had a thing for portable game consoles.

My self-hosting journey started with a succession of Synology enclosures. And why wouldn't it? Back then, the platform was more open, and they offered excellent value compared to the competition. There was one problem, however: expandability. The first NAS had only four 3.5-inch drive bays, which soon filled up, and I needed to expand. Each successive NAS enclosure added a couple more drive bays as I upgraded, but I quickly hit a price ceiling and a limit on what the next upgrade could add.

Today, Google killed its 30 percent app store fee, partially uncoupled Google Play from Google Play Billing after they were declared an illegal monopoly in the US, and much more.From July, depending on where you live, Google will now generally charge developers 20 percent for in-app purchases, or 10 percent for subscriptions - but it's also carving out several new categories of app which might pay differently. One of them is the mysterious new "metaverse browsers" category, whose details have been redacted. But Google is public that two other programs, Apps Experience and Games Level Up will let developers save up to 5 percent more of th …Read the full story at The Verge.

Some folks are looking to go all out when it comes to protection while surfing the web. If you're not really sure how deep you want to dive, or just want something simple to start with, we think a VPN is going to be a good option. You get an added layer of protection that isn't complicated or expensive.

I used to assume the pressure I felt during the day came from the amount of work on my plate. But I noticed I had a pattern of opening a browser, a terminal, chats, notes, and before doing any meaningful work, I was arranging everything. Resize. Move. Line up. Adjust again. It was pretty constant.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents released today reveal that they aren't only aligned on how Google is shaking things up for app stores. The two companies have also agreed to terms about a new class of apps that they're calling "metaverse browsers," according to a heavily redacted section of a revised binding term sheet.While the term "metaverse" has largely fallen out of favor - Mark Zuckerberg, for example, is now much more interested in AI - Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has been talking for years about the metaverse and how it might work in the future. (Depending on how you define the concept, Epic's Fortnite is alrea …Read the full story at The Verge.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world's most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again: "crooked," "deceitful," "insanely sneaky," calling Android a "fake open platform," calling both companies "gangster-style businesses that will do anything they think they can get away with," telling me how Google's Project Hug was "an astonishingly corrupt effort at a massive scale."But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It's right there in a binding term sheet for his settlement with Google. On March 3 …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you are tired of staring at a cluttered desktop, fighting with a sluggish File Explorer, or wasting 20 minutes on a task that should take two, you are not alone. While Windows is a powerhouse, you need third-party utilities to unlock its full potential.

I used to treat AI like a glorified search engine — something to help me draft a quick email or summarize an article. That changed when I started integrating AI directly into my Office suite.