Single-board computers (SBCs), such as the Raspberry Pi, are great for home lab experimentation. Still, every time I've gotten something working on one, I realize it's not quite as powerful or helpful as I thought it would be. I know, it's a terrible thing to say, but it's true. They're not powerful computers, and trying to pretend otherwise is foolish.

Unlike the day after Thanksgiving, when people are rushing online and to the stores to look for deals, the day after Christmas is usually a time to recover from the festivities and check your budget to see how much all that gifting has cost you. However, if you're in a shopping mood, or if you suddenly realized you forgot somebody important, there are still some deals out there.For example, Nintendo is offering a bunch of its best-known games at deals ranging from 25 to 50 percent off. These include Princess Peach: Showtime ($41.99 down from $59.99), The Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom (also $41.99 down from $59.99), Super Mario Odyssey …Read the full story at The Verge.

Choosing a monitor in 2025 isn't easy. There are just way too many great options available, which is actually a really good problem to have. Of course, if you're focused on buying the best, there's only one true option in our opinion, and that comes in the form of Alienware's AW2725Q gaming monitor.

Do you miss the Windows Phone? If not, you really should. It's something that we here at XDA wonder about all the time. What if Microsoft didn't decide to throw in the towel with its mobile phone operating system and kept going? Given how Microsoft is adding new features to make Windows 11 a suitable console OS, it's not a stretch to imagine that, if Windows Phone had kept going, we'd see mobile variants of it too.

Aside from free shipping, Prime Video is the second-best perk that comes with an Amazon Prime subscription. This year, the streaming service delivered several strong installments to some of its biggest series like Reacher, Fallout, and Invincible - but it also premiered some great new shows and spinoffs to keep things fresh.Here's a list of the best shows and new seasons released on Prime Video in 2025.Reacher (season 3)Reacher is one of my favorite series on Amazon Prime Video, and the latest installment doesn't disappoint. After winding up in Maine, Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) - the former military officer-turned-drifter - gets enta …Read the full story at The Verge.

Docker is an invaluable tool in a self-hosted setup, and I spend a lot of time managing containers and monitoring their activity. I previously built a Docker Swarm cluster and could monitor the container activity to some extent. However, the one thing that I miss is hardware resource consumption, and there's no option for it in Portainer. I tried my luck with Uptime Kuma, which is a good way to monitor and get notifications about each container's status. Sadly, it doesn't include hardware resources monitoring.

When people talk about improving their PC experience, the conversation almost always drifts towards the flashier components like keyboards and their switches, monitors and their panels, or the GPU and CPU combination that can fetch the maximum frame rates. Most of the discourse around mice gets reduced to DPI numbers and polling rates. I find that strange, especially when you consider the mouse is one of the few components your body is in constant contact with for hours.

NotebookLM has quietly become one of my most-used tools for learning. I use it to break down long documentation, understand unfamiliar concepts, and explore topics without jumping between tabs or losing context. It helps me think through things, not just look them up. Over time, I started wondering what would happen if I used the same approach on something deeply familiar, i.e., my own code. Could it help me reason better, or learn something new? That curiosity led me to try an unusual experiment: giving NotebookLM full access to a codebase and treating it like a human teammate. The results were more interesting than I had expected.

While Christmas is usually a time for joy and cheer, some malicious agents use the downtime to do damage. After all, with everyone at home and companies shut for the day, a cybercriminal can get up to all kinds of mischief, and it'll take a while for anyone to notice, let alone take action.

If you've been saddled with some awful Gmail address you chose in high school (looking at you, LazySexyCool3030), help appears to be on the way. According to a Google account support page in Hindi the company is allowing some people to change their email address. According to the page (via Google Translate):If your Google Account email address ends with gmail.com, you can replace it with one that ends with @gmail.com.This appears to be more like adding a second address to your account than actually changing your email address, however. Email sent to your old address will still arrive in your inbox, and that address will still work to s …Read the full story at The Verge.

LG is getting ready to take the wraps off a new robot it claims is capable of performing a "wide range" of household chores. The robot, called LG CLOiD, will make its debut at CES next month, featuring two articulated arms and five individually actuated fingers on each hand.Though we only have a description and two images showing LG CLOiD's five-fingered hands, it already seems a lot different from the two-wheeled home companion LG revealed last year, which came with a handle attached to its head rather than two arms.LG says CLOiD's motor-equipped arms operate with seven degrees of freedom, indicating a more humanlike range of motion and …Read the full story at The Verge.

With PC manufacturers worldwide trying to navigate a market where RAM is in short supply, different companies are trying different things to help stay afloat. We've already seen one adopt a "bring your own RAM" plan that allows people to send in their sticks of memory for installation on a PC they want to buy, but most of the time, companies are simply upping how much they charge for devices with RAM in them.