OpenClaw has been making huge waves ever since people began discovering it back in December 2025, even if it wasn't called OpenClaw at the time. It had a rough time with naming, starting with Clawdbot, then moving to Moltbot after a takedown notice from Anthropic, and finally settling on OpenClaw.

It’s tough not to gush about a 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitor that costs under $400 (I’ve done it before!). AOC’s G-Sync-compatible model with a 240Hz refresh rate and a near-instant response time is down to $379.99 at Best Buy, which matches the lowest price I’ve ever seen for a model with these specs. This seems like a great entry-level OLED for your gaming desktop or laptop setup; it has a similar 111 pixels per inch (PPI) as its competitors, it has a three-year warranty that protects against burn-in from normal use (when you use its panel protection settings), and its 16:9 aspect ratio makes it ideal for PC and console gaming.AOC 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor (Q27G41ZDF)Where to Buy: $549.99 $379.99 at Best BuyThe benefits of QD-OLED over IPS and TN panels commonly used in monitors are immediately obvious when you compare them side-by-side. QD-OLED offers deeper blacks (no more black appearing as hues of gray) and better contrast with more color and brightness accuracy. Games and movies will look better than ever. Google Docs? Not so much. Brightness and text clarity are areas where this tech falls behind; viewing a huge, white Google Doc on this and other OLEDs will make it appear somewhat dim. And, while newer OLED monitors boast clearer text thanks to vertical RGB stripes in their panels, you might notice some fringing around letters with this monitor (and many others on the market) if you look closely. Other Verge-approved dealsSony has discounted a fleet of PS5 games and accessories on its PS Direct site, and you’ll also find many of them on Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and GameStop. The most notable game discount that exists only on Sony’s site (for now, at least) is on Ghost of Yōtei, one of the PS5’s best exclusives from 2025. Previously $69.99, you can grab it on disc for $49.99 through March 10th. The third-person action game is set 300 years after the events of Ghost of Tsushima, and you control vengeance-seeking Atsu. As predicted, the title offers absolutely stunning graphics and the return of the previous game’s deep, satisfying fight system. Read our review.Woot is offering a stellar deal on Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds that offer active noise cancellation, IPX4 protection against sweat, and compatibility with iOS and Android. Through Monday, February 23rd (or until supplies last), you can get the black or white model for $59.99, which is 60 percent off its original $149.95 price from when they debuted in 2021. We thought they were a so-so value in our original review, and its major cons (no wireless charging, noise cancellation that’s not as good as AirPods) were tough to settle for with a $150 price tag. These are a great buy at this discounted price.One of Best Buy’s deals of the day (lasting through Monday, February 23rd) is on a discounted bundle of high-end components for a desktop PC. If you’ve had your eyes set on AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor (the successor to the best gaming CPU), you can grab it paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM clocked at up to 6400MHz for $649.99. The CPU alone costs $499.99 at most retailers, so snagging this much speedy RAM for an extra $150 is great, considering how costly RAM has become these past few months.

There's a meme that makes its rounds around the internet. It's an edited image of ther 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, giving a Presidential Medal of Freedom to someone. The edit changes the recipient to also be Barack Obama, thus depicting him giving himself a medal, and is often used whenever a business or person give themselves a morale boost.

There's a meme that makes its rounds around the internet. It's an edited image of ther 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, giving a Presidential Medal of Freedom to someone. The edit changes the recipient to also be Barack Obama, thus depicting him giving himself a medal, and is often used whenever a business or person give themselves a morale boost.

Taara Beam mounted to a pole for line of sight connectivity. | Image: Taara Light-based internet provider Taara, which spun out of Alphabet's "moonshot" incubator last year, just launched Taara Beam to provide 25Gbps connectivity within cities over invisible beams of light - line of sight permitting.Unlike last year's Taara Lightbridge, which connects communities separated by water and mountains at distances up to 20km (over 12 miles), the shoebox-sized Beam can be mounted to street poles and roof tops for city-wide connectivity at distances up to 10km. The 8kg (less than 20 pounds) device typically consumes about 90W. Taara's big advantage is speed. It rivals fiber in terms of throughput and can also be deploye …Read the full story at The Verge.

Phone companion apps are a very underrated niche. If you are on Windows or macOS and own either an Android or an iPhone, the cross-device features and interconnectivity are extremely helpful. My experience with Windows Phone Link taught me that Microsoft was serious about the app, and its current features eliminate the need to pick up my phone for calls or other frequent tasks.

Tweaking the power limits of your hardware used to be the hallmark of an enthusiast's build back in the era of the GTX 1080 Ti. For most, like myself, it was an experiment reserved for those who were daring enough to risk stability for a few extra frames. Times have certainly changed since then. Modern GPUs tend to have robust safety controls and usually come with accessible software, which is a change that has democratized hardware tuning to the point that even total newcomers can extract performance gains.

During my experience as a software engineer as well as a tech blogger, I’ve set up more machines than I can count, like fresh Linux installs, temporary test environments, and clean Windows setups. Over time, I realized productivity isn’t lost in big mistakes, but in tiny delays repeated all day: slow searches, messy output, forgotten commands, and constant context switching.

I have zero proof for this theory, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the reason Nintendo designed the DS the way that it did was to curb emulators. In the company's mind, having to emulate both screens, the touchscreen, the microphone, and even some unique in-game mechanics that happen when you close the clamshell case (like that one puzzle in Zelda) would make it really difficult. And I can imagine that emulator developers did struggle trying to get everything locked down.

Let's say you've just dropped $200 on a flagship portable SSD from a major brand. It's sleek, it's rugged, and the box promises up to 2,000 MB/s, but in the real world, it's barely hitting half of that speed, and it's getting burning hot.

Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge Last November, the House Oversight Committee had just released 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, and Luke Igel and some friends were clicking around, trying to follow the threads of conversation through garbled email threads and a PDF viewer that was, frankly, "gross." In the coming months, the Department of Justice would release its own batches of files, more than three million of them - again, all PDFs.This was a problem. While the Department of Justice had run optical character recognition over the text, it was not very good, Igel said, rendering the files more or less unsearchable. "There was no interface …Read the full story at The Verge.