Anyone who has read the headline is probably wondering, "why would anyone put their Steam library on a USB stick at all?", and I'd think of it as a very fair question. The answer is a little long and winding, but I promise it'll make sense.

Raspberry Pis are fantastic for hobbyist use, but it's really easy to forget that these are powerful SBCs that see scientific use. If you live in an earthquake-prone location and you want to log seismic activity both for scientific purposes and for your own interest, the Raspberry Shake is a full kit that keeps a digital ear to the ground and records any quakes that occur.

It feels like smart homes come with an unspoken tax of never-ending monthly subscriptions. Whether that's Ring, Nest, or even Arlo, you'll find that the services have repeatedly bumped subscription prices, locked core features like person detection behind paywalls, and degraded the experience for non-paying users.

It's no secret that XDA has a history with HP's top ultraportable range. We loved it when it was the HP Spectre, and we've loved most of what we've seen of the OmniBook rebranding so far. And this year, HP completely redesigned the OmniBook. The OmniBook Ultra is sleeker, slimmer, and stunning, and I've enjoyed most of my time with it.

Hotel Wi-Fi has ruined enough quiet evenings for me that I stopped trusting it before I even checked in. Sometimes it works well enough, right up until the stream buffers at the worst possible moment or the captive portal decides I need to sign in again.

X wants to make money on previously used handles. | Image: The Verge X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk's reign. In its place, it's launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8th. To be eligible, creators must have at least 500 verified followers and at least 500,000 Home Timeline impressions from verified users in the last 90 days, among other requirements. Creators will then earn revenue based on "qualified impressions" on "original content."Qualified impressions are unique impressions from Premium subscribers "on the Home Timeline feed, where at least 50% of the post is visible." What qualifies a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows 11 has had its fair share of problems over the past few years, and while Windows K2 is doing work to make the operating system more appealing to users, there are still some elements that need some work. For example, Windows Latest claims that the Windows 11 Weather app uses five times more RAM than macOS's Weather app, and the worst part is that Microsoft's version comes with ads bundled in.

As big as Microsoft is, it can make mistakes sometimes. Recently, people noticed that Windows 11 had installed a new OneDrive app on their PCs, even if they didn't ask for it. Worst of all, the app arrived on enterprise PCs, which don't have the right permissions to even open it. Well, it turns out that Microsoft had slipped up and pushed it out too far, too quickly.

Undervolting your GPU is one of the safest and most effective ways to reduce its thermal output, but it is actually the side effect of undervolting that makes it appealing for those in enthusiast circles. You see, silicon has a rather obvious relationship with throughput. If you give it less voltage at the same clock speed, it draws less power for the same throughput, which means it stays cooler and boosts higher for longer.

By now, you've likely had the realization that AI tools are expensive. You might've realized that by looking at the price of your growing pile of monthly subscriptions. Or the thought might've hit you when you got the polite "you've hit the limit! please come back later" message after using your favorite AI tool for what felt like five minutes.

I absolutely love weird apps. Especially the ones built around a single, oddly specific idea. These are the kind of project where you can tell someone made it just because they had a bizarre idea and couldn't let it go until it existed. Up until a few months ago, actually bringing such an idea to reality wasn't something just anyone could do. You needed to commit to learning how to code or find someone who already knew.

I've been writing about AI tools since before ChatGPT became a household name, and something I've noticed since then is that one use case the labs building these tools keep circling back to is travel. It's a trend I've seen across demos, keynotes, press releases, and even the casual examples they drop on social media.