I’ve been an Adobe subscriber for years, and although its software is undeniably powerful, I mostly stayed out of habit. Sticking to the same ecosystem for all your editing needs keeps things smooth and reliable. But I eventually canceled all my subscriptions due to several factors - I was paying for features I wasn’t using, I had some concerns over my data, and the fees didn’t feel justified anymore. So I had to start looking for alternatives.

When I talk about high-end GPUs, I refer to Nvidia cards with more than 10,000 CUDA cores or AMD GPUs with more than 4,000 stream processors. These GPUs are built for seriously graphically-intensive workloads, like 8K gaming, cinematic rendering or AI training. In those regions, they still reign unchallenged without a hint of a doubt.

Testing out new tech and software is my absolute favorite thing to do, and lately, I've been going all-in on AI browsers. Honestly, I can’t imagine not using one in 2025. I’ve tried pretty much every AI browser launched so far, giving each a fair shot as my primary browser for a few days.

With the Xbox brand confirming that it's moving away from console competition and will instead go up against services like TikTok and movies, there's one question lingering on Xbox fans' minds: What's going to happen with the next Xbox? In fact, will Microsoft release another fully-fledged Xbox ever again?

Lenovo makes a ton of different laptops, which can be confusing if you're looking to buy something new from the brand. Of course, having a ton of options can also be a good thing, since there's bound to be a model that perfectly suits your needs.

A Raspberry Pi can do far more than run a few hobby projects. When connected to your NAS, it can turn a simple file server into a fully featured media hub that streams, organizes, and protects your content. With the right combination of tools to support and extend your NAS, the Pi becomes the central brain of your home entertainment setup. Each of these tools adds a specific capability, building a system that is efficient, secure, and surprisingly powerful.

xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected.Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a big search bar, and entries resemble very basic Wikipedia entries, with headings, subheadings, and citations. I haven’t seen any photos on the site yet. Wikipedia lets users edit pages, but it doesn’t appear that users can currently do that on Grokipedia; a big edit button at the top only appeared on a few pages for me, and when I clicked the button, it only showed edits that had already been completed without specifying who is actually suggested or made the changes, and I wasn’t able to suggest changes of my own. Entries also claim that Grok has fact-checked them — a controversial idea, given how large language models tend to make up false “facts” — and how long ago the “fact check” happened.However, despite Elon Musk promising that Grokipedia would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, some articles appear to be cribbing information from Wikipedia. At the bottom of the page for the MacBook Air, for example, you can see this message: “The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.” In some cases, the cribbing goes farther than a rewrite: I’ve also seen that message on pages for the PlayStation 5 and the Lincoln Mark VIII, and both of those pages are almost identical — word-for-word, line-for-line — to their Wikipedia counterparts.“Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist,” Lauren Dickinson, a spokesperson for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia tells The Verge. You can read Dickinson’s full statement in full at the end of this article.It’s not the first time xAI’s AI has been caught pointing to Wikipedia; last month, in response to an X user pointing out that Grok cites Wikipedia pages, Musk said that “we should have this fixed by end of year.”Not all Grokipedia articles are based directly on Wikipedia ones, and some will be controversial. While both sites have articles on climate change, for example, Wikipedia’s page points out that “There is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that the climate is warming and that this is caused by human activities. No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view.” In Grokipedia’s entry, meanwhile, the word “unanimous” only appears in one paragraph: “Critics contend that claims of near-unanimous scientific consensus on anthropogenic causes dominating recent climate change overstate agreement due to selective categorization in literature reviews.” It suggests that the media and advocacy organizations like Greenpeace are “contributing to heightened public alarm,” and are part of “coordinated efforts to frame the issue as an existential imperative, influencing public discourse and policy without always grounding in proportionate empirical evidence.”According to a ticker at the bottom of the homepage, Grokipedia has over 885,000 articles; Wikipedia currently maintains around 7 million English pages. However, this is an early version of Grokipedia — it has a v0.1 version number on the homepage.Here is Dickinson’s full statement:We’re still in the process of understanding how Grokipedia works.Since 2001, Wikipedia has been the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, it remains the only top website in the world run by a nonprofit. Unlike newer projects, Wikipedia’s strengths are clear: it has transparent policies, rigorous volunteer oversight, and a strong culture of continuous improvement. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, written to inform billions of readers without promoting a particular point of view. Wikipedia’s knowledge is – and always will be – human. Through open collaboration and consensus, people from all backgrounds build a neutral, living record of human understanding – one that reflects our diversity and collective curiosity. This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist. Wikipedia’s nonprofit independence — with no ads and no data-selling — also sets it apart from for-profit alternatives. All of these strengths have kept Wikipedia a top trusted resource for more than two decades.Many experiments to create alternative versions of Wikipedia have happened before; it doesn’t interfere with our work or mission. As we approach Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, Wikipedia will continue focusing on providing free, trustworthy knowledge built by its dedicated volunteer community. For more information about how Wikipedia works, visit our website and new blog series.

In the gaming world, development hell is one phase that strikes fear in the hearts of publishers, players, and, of course, developers themselves. It's when a game enters a limbo of overwhelming uncertainty, and it gets there via bad decision-making from the top, re-writes, ballooning costs and bloated timelines, teams being lost and new ones being brought in, along with a host of other problems that a lot of games have historically dealt with.

You really can't go wrong with the MacBook Air. It's a laptop series that has dominated for over a decade, offering the perfect balance when it comes to power and portability. Apple's M-series chip took things to another level when it was first introduced, and this M4 chip is no different, offering impressive power that most people will never take full advantage of.

Rhea Seehorn in Pluribus. Now he's best known for the crime-fueled duology of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but when Vince Gilligan was first starting out in television, it was in the realm of sci-fi. Over seven years he penned a number of classic episodes of The X-Files, ranging from a monster-themed spoof of Cops to a bizarre high-speed car chase that was his first collaboration with Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston. And now he's back in the genre with the upcoming Apple TV series Pluribus, which starts streaming in November.But Gilligan tells me that, while he had been itching to return to sci-fi, actually getting there was a bit of an accident. "I didn't m …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve never counted my calories because of my high metabolism, but since going back to the gym last year, I’ve needed to increase my food intake to gain weight. However, my progress has been slow because I’m not being disciplined with my diet, which is why I’m hoping that a calorie and fitness tracker can set me on the right path. MyFitnessPal is a popular and obvious choice. Unfortunately, I never went back to the app after— according to HaveIBeenPwned—I lost my account information in a 2018 data breach.

AI has had a huge impact on the world of technology, and video games were not spared. Developers, both triple-A and independent, began experimenting with what AI could do to make their jobs easier. Coding with AI was a given, but what about generating textures and assets? How about using AI to deliver voice lines, especially if the dialogue is procedurally generated? In fact, why not put AI in the game as an NPC and let it react to the player?