It's already possible to get AMD's framerate-enhancing FSR 4 boost on handhelds as old as the Steam Deck - but in June, AMD reserved the right to disappoint handheld gamers by not officially bringing FSR 4 to older handhelds. Now, AMD consumer chip boss Jack Huynh says he will bring the tech to some handhelds by the end of the year.Which handhelds? It's still not clear if it will come to existing handhelds, or if you'll need a new one to get it - because it comes alongside news that AMD is releasing a new FSR4-capable chip."We will expand the machine learning AI-based FSR4 technology, which was first introduced to existing external graph …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows Search has been one of the most frustrating parts of Windows 11, and now Microsoft is addressing this with a significant overhaul. A new redesigned Windows Search is now in testing that is much faster, more capable, and a lot more modern."This new Windows Search experience is built for speed," says Anshul Rawat, corporate vice president of the Windows product team at Microsoft. "It's built on WinUI 3 and is part of our broader investment in modernizing our core Windows experiences."Microsoft says early testing of this new search has shown "substantial improvements in performance and memory usage," meaning the company isn't adding …Read the full story at The Verge.

The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times.The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a human using what the NYT described as a "remote virtual-reality system." Rek says it is the "the humanoid robot fighting league" on its website, and the robot appears to be one from EngineAI but with a Terminator-like head swapped on top. You can watch a replay of the fight on YouTube:The CEO of Rek …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve used VS Code for years, and much of my workflow now lives inside it. I use it for coding, connect it to local AI models, and access my desktop remotely through its tunnel feature. I’ve also tried other editors, including Zed, but VSCodium interests me because it lets me keep the VS Code environment without Microsoft’s telemetry.

Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO in September, handing over the top job to former hardware chief John Ternus and taking an executive chairman role. Cook's still a visible representative of the company, having been recently photographed attending a state dinner at the White House. But in an interview with The Independent, Cook says he's "not meddling" in Ternus' work."First of all, John and I have an incredible level of trust in each other," Cook said. "The relationship must be based on trust, and the communication must be frequent and significant. But other than that, what I'm focused on right now is worldwide policy. And the interface w …Read the full story at The Verge.

Wi-Fi 7 routers came with some new configuration options, and one of the more interesting ones is Multi-Link Operation, or MLO. MLO lets your devices use more than one Wi-Fi band at the same time, and it's one of the biggest reasons why Wi-Fi 7 speeds look so more like a generational leap than the versions before it. It also happens to be one of the first settings I make sure is turned off on a new router. On the more affordable Wi-Fi 7 models and in a house full of older devices, it can do more harm than good.

SpaceX has acquired a portfolio of low-band spectrum licenses - a move the company says "will pave the way" for its Starlink Mobile service to become a "major" US carrier. When the Federal Communications Commission signs off on the deal, SpaceX says it will deploy its new architecture that combines its satellite-to-mobile constellation with a terrestrial mobile network, directly competing with T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.The licenses include up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum in the 800 MHz band, which SpaceX says will allow Starlink Mobile's signal to penetrate through walls and buildings. SpaceX previously acquired 2GHz spectrum from …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple is set to introduce a new MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and an updated iPad Mini "on or around" October 27th, Bloomberg reports. If true, that would put the event just two weeks after the October 13th event Apple announced today, which is rumored to focus on smart home products.Bloomberg says that the late October event will include an "online video presentation" and an "in-person component for the press," which it reports is similar to what Apple is planning for the October 13th event.At this Mac and iPad event, Bloomberg reports that Apple will announce new MacBook Pros that are lighter than what's available now, have touchscree …Read the full story at The Verge.

In fall 2023, I built what most would call a mid-range PC. Some would argue that "mid-range" is strictly related to the "tiers" of the chips in the system and where they sit in the product hierarchy, some relate it to an output resolution, most commonly 1440p. And then finally, there's the economic argument, which is the most widely referenced among OEMs, stating that a mid-range PC is one that delivers maximum performance against its price.

I have a bunch of Bash scripts that help me keep my files organized. They’re useful enough that I keep using them, although running everything through the terminal gets cumbersome. I have to keep track of which script does what, remember the commands, and pass the right folder paths and options. I’d much rather open a page, select what I want to do, and click a button.

Cyberpunk 2077 is heading to the big screen. Deadline reports that CD Projekt Red's popular sci-fi video game franchise is being adapted into a live-action film by Paramount Pictures. There's no details just yet on when the film might premiere. But Deadline says that Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who is known for producing the Transformers films, will be a producer on the movie."We're excited about Paramount as a future partner who shares our creative ambitions for the Cyberpunk franchise," says CD Projekt Red joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski. "We look forward to sharing more details at the appropriate time."Despite its rocky 2020 launch, Cyberpunk …Read the full story at The Verge.

Detainees are seen in a yard at the Folkston ICE Processing Center on September 9, 2025, in Folkston, Georgia. (Photo by ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Four men detained at an ICE detention center in rural Georgia used the facility's video conferencing software to expose both the conditions inside and President Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the immigration courts. In the five-minute video, the men describe an intentionally dysfunctional legal system designed to keep them trapped in federal custody for months or years - in privately owned facilities that profit from their confinement.The video cost the men, literally and figuratively. The Folkston ICE Processing Center has a work program for detainees in which they are paid a pittance to cook, do laundry, or clean. These wages allow t …Read the full story at The Verge.