When I first tried NotebookLM, I didn’t expect much. On paper, it kind of sounded like an AI version of Notion. But once I started using it for more serious work, it proved me wrong and became part of my daily system. It's so much more than a note-taking app, and it’s also better than any of the AI assistants in my other note-taking apps.

Self-hosting has earned itself a reputation as not only a way to "cut the cord" to cloud services, but also as a way to save money every month. You can run a home lab on free software, without a subscription, and many people start their hosting journey on hardware that they already own. It's definitely not incorrect to frame it this way, but it's not the full story.

The concept panel (right) lacks the obvious crease down the middle that you can see on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 (left). Samsung Display showcased a new foldable OLED panel at CES that doesn't have a visible crease - something that currently blights every foldable phone on the market. This could be our first look at the panel used in the next generation of Samsung's Galaxy foldables and even the folding iPhone, given that Samsung Display is a long-time provider for Apple.The display unit was missing from Samsung Display's CES showcase when The Verge team visited yesterday, but was initially set up beside a Galaxy Z Fold 7 foldable to provide a side-by-side comparison. SamMobile saw the demo before it was removed, and reports that the new panel "has no visibl …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's CES 2026 time, and as usual, this comes with a plethora of announcements from almost every tech-related company under the sun. Nvidia is no stranger to making big reveals at CES, but this time around, the big news are more software-related.

I lost track of how many times Jellyfin buffered while I tried to turn on my smart lights. How many times have I noticed the LED blinking frantically on my Raspberry Pi’s case. How many times SSH would stop responding, and I had to walk over to perform a hard reset. And I thought it was normal.

Look at how confident Bosch’s anti-theft features make you. | Image: Bosch Stolen electric bikes built around Bosch motors will be harder to sell, service, and ride at the end of January. That's when Bosch is rolling a new digital theft feature that lets owners mark the bike as stolen in the Bosch Flow app - no subscription required. Bosch rolled out a similar feature for expensive Bosch batteries last year, but it stupidly required a subscription to Flow Plus. "If an e-bike or a battery is marked as stolen, it can be identified as such throughout the entire digital ecosystem of Bosch eBike Systems," says the company in a press release. "This makes reselling the e-bike difficult and increases the chances of the o …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nvidia's RTX 5080 rollout for its GeForce Now cloud gaming service is now complete, so it's ready to announce some additional features for subscribers. In the coming months, Nvidia is planning to launch native GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon's Fire TV devices, alongside flight control support for its cloud gaming service.The native Linux app is a highly requested feature for GeForce Now, especially as subscribers have had to rely on unofficial apps or browser tweaks to get access to the service. A beta of GeForce Now for Linux will be available initially for Ubuntu 24.04 and newer soon, nearly a year after Nvidia made it easier to ac …Read the full story at The Verge.

The DeskMate doesn’t have its own display, it just uses your iPhone’s. CES is packed with AI companions and assistant robots this year, but the DeskMate from Loona is a clever take on the idea: it's a desktop charging hub, with three USB-C ports, one USB-A, and a MagSafe pad, that automatically activates an AI companion app when you attach your iPhone to the wireless charger.What's unique about the DeskMate is that by using your phone, it takes advantage of tech you already have. It doesn't need its own display, camera, or microphone, because the iPhone provides them (and it is, for now, iPhone-only). By providing charging too, it might replace a charger that's already on your desk, rather than adding to the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Nvidia is bringing a new set of G-Sync Pulsar monitors to the market this week that will automatically adjust brightness and color based on the ambient lighting in a room. Much like a modern laptop, these new monitors have a built-in light sensor that measures the brightness and color temperature of an environment to enable a screen to automatically adapt to different times of day."In bright daylight conditions it increases brightness and shifts to a color that's cooler in temperature," says Michael McSorley, product marketing manager at Nvidia, in a briefing with The Verge. "At night, or in darker rooms, it reduces brightness and uses war …Read the full story at The Verge.

Buying a graphics card in 2026 often feels like a losing battle. It's less like choosing hardware and more like decoding marketing; The same GPU silicon can appear in half a dozen different SKUs, each one positioned as more “premium” than the last. Factory overclocks, oversized coolers, liquid cooling, and exclusive software features are all used to justify higher prices, even when the real-world experience barely changes from card to card. That's not to say paying for a premium card is totally without merit, but generally, if you're just looking at pure performance, there are several features that you don't need to pay extra for.

Microsoft has got the internet confused, again. Over the past couple of days posts on Reddit, Hacker News, and X have claimed Microsoft has rebranded Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot. As much as Microsoft loves to shove its Copilot branding everywhere, Office hasn't been renamed to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app."The confusion comes from Microsoft's own Office.com domain, which for the past year has acted as a way to push businesses and consumers to use the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. This app is a hub app that provides access to Copilot, as well as all the Office apps. Microsoft used to call this app simply Office, before the company …Read the full story at The Verge.

I was surprised that these… work pretty dang well. My biggest gripe about open-ear buds is that they're rotten for loud city commutes. Cue a pedantic audiophile pointing out that the whole premise of open-ear buds is to not block out sound. Yes, yes. But the unfortunate truth is that often means if you want open-ear buds for one situation, you'll have to buy a second pair for when the train is screeching along the subway tracks while the local mariachi band starts busking in your car.So I was intrigued when Shokz reached out to say at CES 2026, its new $249.95 OpenFit Pro buds would have "noise cancellation."Technically, the correct term is noise reduction. Active noise cancellation req …Read the full story at The Verge.