A lot of people will say that you don't need a webcam in 2026. However, if you're someone who just wants an all-in-one solution, we think it's still a valid choice. Of course, you'll want to choose one that does a good job without draining your wallet.

I know the temptation to buy a new graphics card when your current GPU doesn't perform as well as it used to. As a PC gamer, I have dreamt about buying a new GPU for the last three years. It was the RTX 4080 Super in 2024 and the RTX 5080 in 2025 that had me reaching for my wallet, but I reconsidered on both occasions.

Claude has been my go-to AI assistant for months, especially when I needed thoughtful writing, detailed analysis, or help with complex coding tasks. ChatGPT was always in the mix, but I never saw it as a complete replacement.

Going from a new smart TV to buying a streaming stick is a straight path when you realize your TV has slowed down in a year or two.

The average user isn't the most tech-savvy when it comes to network security. Your home network might be protected with WPA3 encryption, but an unassuming setting on your router's admin page might have left the door open for hackers. Remote management can help ISP technicians or the user themselves with remote access to the router's settings, but it opens a grave loophole in your network security.

Five years ago, if you were to compare a 5-year-old CPU to the then current-gen parts, the gulf in performance would have been huge. Today, the same comparison would appear starkly different. CPUs from 2020 can be considered old, but not outdated. If you care mostly about gaming performance, then you still don't need to upgrade your "aging" CPU.

Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of privacy and expansion of surveillance. Some especially bad actors are using the glasses to film themselves "pranking" random strangers. Women have become unsuspecting social media content for men filming themselves hitting on them without their knowledge. When your product is being referred to as "pervert glasses," you have a problem on your hands.On Thursday, Business Insider reported that Meta was taking the fairly extraordinary step of banning some content filmed with Meta glasses from the c …Read the full story at The Verge.

There are very few things that frustrate me as much as Windows "utility" suites that promise to clean and speed up your Windows PC, all for the price of a yearly subscription. What subscribers really get from them are just startup managers, process monitors, file shredders, and a few other handpicked maintenance tools that they could think of, all onto one single dashboard. The idea they purport is that Windows can't look after itself, while the reality is that Windows, and by extension, you, the user, can clean things up just as well without paying a single cent.

People have managed to achieve some amazing things with an ESP32, but I think setting one up to capture a laser pulse and create a 10 billion FPS video showing light travelling across the room takes the biscuit. And while an ESP32 is definitely not capable of recording a single video at that level of slow-mo, someone had an excellent idea as to how to achieve a similar effect using the microcontroller.

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly - even though that feature runs locally on your glasses and doesn't require the cloud? Meta has paused those plans, spokesperson Tyler Yee confirms to The Verge.The company is not giving up on the idea of a subscription fee for certain features - that's still moving forward. Yee confirms that "some premium features will be subscription-based over time."But Conversation Focus, the accessibility feature, "will remain available for free through our Early Access Program for early testers while w …Read the full story at The Verge.

Self-hosting has been the theme for me for a good stretch of months now, and finding a note-taking app that fits properly has been part of that. The requirements aren't complicated - something quick to capture into, something that doesn't need an account, and something where the data actually stays on the machine it was written on. Unfortunately, not many options actually meet that standard.

When I bought the RTX 4090 nearly four years ago, the GPU market was in a much better spot than it is today. You could actually buy graphics cards much closer to MSRP. In fact, I was able to snag a liquid-cooled RTX 4090 for about $2,000, which looks like a steal in hindsight, considering I couldn't find a single listing for under $3,000 today. While that's partly because it's no longer in production, you also can't ignore the impact AI demand has had on GPU prices over the last couple of years.