Windows 11 looks clean, modern, and far more approachable than any version of Windows before it. That being said, it still has its problems, and the worst part is that a lot of them have been inherited over generations. The polish is surface-level, while underneath, it's the same, sprawling, layered operating system it's always been, except now the pathways to its most powerful features are harder to navigate than ever.

If you're looking to go all out, this is the docking station you need. This new addition to Ugreen's growing lineup delivers impressive connectivity, along with lightning-fast speeds with support for Thunderbolt 5. Naturally, this 17-in-1 docking station isn't going to come cheap, but you can now grab it for less thanks to a steep discount that knocks $110 off.

The price of storage has increased quite a bit over the past year, but that doesn't mean there still are good deals out there to be had. If you're looking for simple storage that's cheap and easy to use, then this Lexar JumpDrive is going to be a great solution.

I use Claude Code in two very different ways: managing my home lab server and building web apps. Most people treat Claude as a smart terminal and focus only on prompts. In a few instances, treating it like a chatbot means missing built-in controls like slash commands.

While Google Wallet has been a godsend for many because it means you don't need to carry a physical wallet, it can also be a major annoyance. You could be fumbling at the checkout, waiting for the fingerprint sensor to wake up, or accidentally opening the camera when you actually meant to pay.

Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works - the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site - announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3's launch in 2009."Since 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot," the announcement says. "We've introduced many features over the years through the efforts of our volunteers and coding contributors, as well as the contractors we've been able to hire thanks to generous donations from our users."The post highlights some of the features that AO3 has since its launch, including a tagging system, fanworks downloads, privacy settings that allow …Read the full story at The Verge.

Whenever my CPU temperatures start creeping into the 80s, my first instinct is to blame the cooler, but I usually end up reapplying thermal paste, anyway. That's because, in my experience, a fresh layer of high-quality thermal paste like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut has always reduced CPU temperatures by a few degrees, just enough that I don't feel the need to constantly monitor them using MSI Afterburner. If you think about it, it's the easiest thing you can act on without splurging on a new 360mm AIO.

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are "private by default," it makes them viewable to anyone with a link, and also uses them for internal AI training unless you opt out.Granola describes itself as an "AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings." It integrates with your calendar to capture audio from your meetings, and then uses AI to generate a bulleted list of what you've heard, which it calls a "note." You can edit the AI-generated notes, invite other collaborators to view them, and use Granola's AI assistant to ask questions about y …Read the full story at The Verge.

When Intel unveiled the Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs, it also left hardware enthusiasts with a special kind of frustration that's reserved for hardware that exists just outside their reach. Not because they're too expensive (although the Arc Pro B70's $949 MSRP hardly puts it in the impulse-purchase territory), but because they were never meant for the average consumer in the first place.

Late last year, Valve announced the recent hardware trifecta of the new Steam Machine, Steam Frame headset, and Steam Controller. Many eager fans were looking for a Steam Deck 2 announcement, but it was notably absent. In an interview with IGN following the announcement, Pierre-Loup Griffais, Valve software engineer, clarified the reason why. Valve isn't interested in an incremental 20-30% boost. It's waiting for a major generational leap when it comes to their Steam Deck 2.

Following the feature's reveal back in January 2026 and initial testing with a small group, Google has rolled out Gmail's AI integration.

Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of "ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization."Reddit has offered both r/popular and r/all as ways to see trending posts, with r/all being a "less filtered feed" where "sexually explicit posts are filtered out but other popular Not Safe for Work (NSFW) posts are included." But in January, Reddit said it had removed r/all from its apps as part of an "experiment" and that, as part of a separate experiment, some desktop users wouldn't see r/all in their sidebar. (The company earlier announced r/all's removal from its …Read the full story at The Verge.