I used to think I was pretty efficient in Excel until I started noticing how much time I wasted on repetitive work. I cleaned up columns, pulled values from different tables, fixed formatting, checked for duplicates, and ran the same little routines over and over again.

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward.On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider mathematics community, including how new results are presented and released. Its abrupt arrival caught many mathematicians by surprise. Researchers told The Verge the group is a good first step, but many said they were left with basic questions about what it will actually do, how …Read the full story at The Verge.

During the Snapdragon Summit 2026's opening keynote, Motorola revealed the Signature 27, one of the first smartphones to be released in the U.S. that's powered by Qualcomm's recently revealed Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip.

This 20,000mAh UGreen Nexode power bank is the perfect solution if you need to charge your devices on the go. It can deliver 130W in total power, which is enough to charge up even larger devices like laptops and tablets.

I've made no secret of my feelings toward Adobe products, especially with the ever-rising cost of Creative Cloud, but I also can't deny that Adobe is incredibly good at nearly everything it does. Premiere Pro is no exception. When it comes to video editing, few applications are as widely known or used, but it's far from the only option.

HDMI cables have a strange reputation. One day, the cable you've been using for years works perfectly. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, you start seeing tiny white sparkles, brief black screens, flickering, or the dreaded "No Signal" message. Naturally, the obvious conclusion to draw is that the cable itself has finally given up. Sometimes, it actually has, but HDMI cables don't quite "go bad" in the way most of us imagine.

I've used my fair share of productivity apps and integrated development environment (IDE) offerings, but I always seem to eventually switch back to Obsidian, especially for documentation and brainstorming. It's my go-to app for creating content and synchronizing data across devices, all thanks to one community plugin called LiveSync. It's such a good plugin that it allows me to save just shy of $100 each year on hosting my vaults on Obsidian's own servers. All I needed was my NAS.

It has been quite a dramatic day over in the KDE community. Earlier today, we reported that a discussion about AI-generated content guidelines devolved into a community fight, ending with the thread creator locking it and asking everyone to take 24 hours to cool off. Now, a sub-community has made itself known, asking for KDE developers to support a full ban on all generative AI.

Patreon co-founder Sam Yam is joing OpenAI to lead Creator Product. | Image: The Verge OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, co-founder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he's joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product. He's also bringing Patreon's former product head Drew Rowny and engineering head Shannon Ma with him on the new venture, both of whom stepped down in the past few weeks."We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to a new set of tools that I think will be critically valuable to Creators and their communities," Yam said in his announcement. "Pay attention …Read the full story at The Verge.

Eight Sleep announced the next version of its "intelligent sleep system" designed to regulate the temperature of your bed in response to tracked health and sleep metrics like breathing and heart rate. The company calls its new Pod 6 system its "most significant hardware launch to date," and it's centered around a redesigned cooling hub that's now small enough to hide beneath most beds. The new system is cheaper than Eight Sleep's Pod 5 that launched in 2025, but is still by no means cheap.The Pod 6 is now available through Eight Sleep's online store. The Standard version ranges in price from $2,699 for a full-size mattress to $2,999 for ki …Read the full story at The Verge.

For the longest time, we have been conditioned to believe the built-in Windows tools are somehow inferior to third-party options. That's a major reason behind the popularity of programs like CCleaner for clearing unnecessary files or ShareX for capturing screenshots. Frankly, I have got nothing against these third-party tools. They may work for some — even I use a couple of them — but it's also important to note that native Windows tools have improved significantly over the years.

Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world's biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million more on film and TV projects produced in the US, Paramount says that it will release a minimum of 30 movies annually after it absorbs WBD. On paper, these goals make it sound like Paramount is trying to ensure that the entertainment industry won't be harmed by its WBD acquisition. But when you look at the studios' recent output, it seems very much like Paramount CEO Dav …Read the full story at The Verge.