While Raspberry Pi's base hardware isn't anything to sniff at, the foundation does occasionally release optional add-ons to boost your SBC's power. These are usually something you can plug into the Pi itself to unlock additional features and hardware, which makes them nice little extras to pick up if you're interested in what the addon is doing.

The US just lowered Taiwan's tariffs in exchange for a massive domestic chipmaking promise, the Commerce Department announced on Thursday. Under the deal, tariffs on goods from Taiwan will decrease from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwanese technology companies will invest $250 billion into building and expanding chipmaking facilities in the US, supported by at least $250 billion in credit offered by Taiwan's government.Last year, President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on chips and semiconductors not made in the US, something that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells CNBC is still on the table. "That's what they ge …Read the full story at The Verge.

The ongoing memory shortage is starting to affect GPU production in a notable way.

Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum, one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase starting today, January 15th.Last year, Amazon announced that it would be pivoting away from MMOs to put more of a focus on party games, and the company said at the time that it wouldn't be releasing new content for New World: Aeternum and that the game's servers would be active through 2026. But the longer-term future of the game was unclear, and now we know the official day everything will be shut down.If you have already purchased New Worl …Read the full story at The Verge.

PUBG developer Krafton has 26 games in development, and in a recent town hall meeting, the company outlined a plan to "focus on its core gaming business while outlining a disciplined approach to building long-term Franchise IPs.""During the past year, KRAFTON has prepared for Franchise IP development by strengthening its creative leadership, as well as upgrading its overall game development and publishing frameworks," the company says. "In 2026, the company will ramp up development of new titles with potential to grow into Franchise IPs, while at the same time accelerating the growth of the PUBG IP Franchise."The "26-project development …Read the full story at The Verge.

Thin clients used to feel like a dead end for my home lab. They looked like tiny desktops, and I kept expecting them to behave like bargain PCs with a few compromises. That mindset made every limitation feel bigger than it needed to be, especially once I started stacking browser tabs, dashboards, and “just one more” utility on top. I wasn’t wrong to be annoyed, but I was aiming that annoyance at the wrong target. Thin clients are better judged as endpoints, not as the place where work happens.

The WeChat channel 纽约移民记事网Documented (or the New York Immigrant Chronicle) is part newsfeed and part public service. The channel, run by the nonprofit newsroom Documented NYC, is filled with local news for Chinese speakers in New York: stories about healthcare and immigration arrests, but also information on local events like toy giveaways, places where families can get free groceries, and affordable housing lottery listings. Followers can also contact reporters directly - to send them tips, of course, but followers also turn to Documented for essential questions: Where can I find free English classes? What should I expect at an upcoming cou …Read the full story at The Verge.

Ever since I went full-time with Linux about nine months ago, I've had a soft spot for KDE Plasma. In fact, I'd even go so far as to claim that KDE's desktop environment and tools were a big reason as to why I didn't bounce back onto Windows. I think if I would have gone back to Windows if I was stuck with GNOME as my daily driver. I really don't like it.

This UI will already be familiar to any Google Translate users, though ChatGPT Translate does include some style presets. | Image: OpenAI / The Verge OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Translate, a standalone web translation tool that supports over 50 languages and is positioned as a direct competitor to Google Translate. The two services look visually similar: both feature two text boxes - one for typing or pasting the source text, and another that displays the translated results - alongside dropdown menus to manage which languages you're translating to or from.There are some notable differences, however. Google Translate allows users to upload images, documents, and even websites for translation alongside the usual text inputs. The ChatGPT Translate homepage notes that it can translate from …Read the full story at The Verge.

Siri, are you there? It’s me, Gemini. For an AI loser, Apple did an awful lot of winning last year.The mess that was the Apple Intelligence rollout was embarrassing, to be sure, but through it all, the company kept doing what it does best: selling iPhones. With this week's news that it'll use Gemini models to power the long-awaited smarter Siri, Apple seems to have taken a big 'ol L in the whole AI race. But there's still a major challenge ahead - and Apple isn't out of the running just yet.Apple Intelligence got off to a well-documented rough start in 2024. The iPhone 16 was "Built for Apple Intelligence," but shipped without it. Features arrived over the next few months, b …Read the full story at The Verge.

In my opinion, there is no real "wrong answer" when picking out your very first Linux distro. Yes, some options are more difficult to set up, more niche, and may confuse a newcomer more than other distros, but if someone really has their mind set on a specific one, I think people should give it a go, as long as they understand what they're getting into.

On Thursday, Hardware Unboxed reported that Asus is winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, saying, Asus "explicitly told us this model is currently facing a supply shortage and, as such, they have placed the model into end-of-life status." They added that the same applies to Asus's 16GB RTX 5060 Ti, and mentioned how retailers in Australia have had trouble sourcing the product.Nvidia's director of global public relations for GeForce, Ben Berraondo, confirmed in a statement to The Verge that it's still producing these GPUs: "Demand for GeForce RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained. We continue to ship all GeForce SKUs an …Read the full story at The Verge.