GPU prices haven't been fair for a long time, and consumers have tried their very best to negotiate with the economics of upgrading their PC's graphics. Certain features, however, continue to push the boundaries of logic. It's one thing to pay for more capable silicon that brings with it higher clock speeds and better fidelity, but it's a whole another thing to pay a luxury tax for components that offer little value outside of novelty.

Your home Wi-Fi network might be powered by a new Wi-Fi 7 router and a Gigabit internet plan, but it's only as strong as its weakest link. Errant devices with outdated Wi-Fi standards may not reduce the wireless speeds on your PC or smartphone, but they still make everything feel sluggish. Your smart TV is one of the devices that usually flies under the radar.

Roku users who struggle to figure out what they want to watch might have an answer in the form of "Roklue," a new game coming to the streaming platform on March 7th. Announced on Thursday, Roklue is a pop culture trivia game that Roku says helps users discover new content and "tests players on the movies and TV shows that everyone is talking about, as well as the beloved favorites they want to watch again and again." The first Roklue theme will be "awards season," with "clues inspired by Hollywood's biggest award show moments and celebrated films." Themes for the trivia game will change throughout the year. Users don't need to download any …Read the full story at The Verge.

Are you having issues connecting to Amazon right now and getting your shopping done? Don't worry, you're not alone. The e-commerce giant is currently experiencing a massive outage, with people reporting issues ranging from not seeing prices to being unable to add items to their cart. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an ETA for when the platform will be back, leaving thousands of shoppers waiting to check out their purchases.

NotebookLM completely shook the industry when it introduced Audio Overviews, letting you turn the sources in your notebook into full-fledged podcasts. If you've used NotebookLM before, chances are you've spent a lot of time with the feature. For many people, it was the moment the tool finally clicked.

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other cloud-based LLM providers may be more powerful than anything I can self-host on my local services, but the privacy-respecting nature and (comparatively) usage costs of the latter make them better for my specific tasks. With self-hosted tools growing in popularity, you’ve probably heard about some of these services.

United Airlines has updated its "Contract of Carriage" to include a line that requires passengers to wear headphones while listening to audio and video content on flights, CBS News reports. Under the updated contract, United can "refuse transport on a permanent or temporary basis" to passengers who don't follow a list of rules, which now includes listening to audio without wearing headphones. The policy also states that United can remove those passengers from the aircraft "at any point." United spokesperson Stella Balaskas confirmed in a statement to The Verge that the policy was updated on February 27th, saying, "We've always encouraged …Read the full story at The Verge.

I sometimes view my home lab like a Factorio playthrough. It must grow, but in a way that's easier to manage with each iteration and change. Just like a combinator, some belts, and a few splitters can transform a line in Factorio, using shell scripting or even Nix flakes can completely change the way you approach and manage the home lab. This is precisely what happened to mine as I started to transition to more deploy-friendly solutions. The thing is, you can take Nix flakes as far as running your entire home lab from a single config file.

Pokémon Pokopia features, of all things, a 3D printer. I wasn't sure why this surprised me so much, given all the other high-tech gear in pretty much every Pokémon game. But I was not expecting to find, inside the once-crumbling Pokémon Center I'd just worked hard to restore, a kind of machine I'd never seen before.Until Pokopia, I hadn't spent much time thinking about tech in the Pokémon world. I've been Pokémon-pilled for so long that I took all its sci-fi technology for granted. Sure, there are magic PCs that can digitally store living creatures - that's how it's always been. Obviously fossils can be resurrected and obviously sometimes …Read the full story at The Verge.

When Mozilla first announced that it would be bringing AI features to Firefox, many fans of the browser protested. While AI browsers have proved popular, they also pose real privacy concerns. In fact, when Google announced more ways that it was integrating Gemini into Chrome, I was glad that I had already switched to a different option.

If you're having issues shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music, you're not alone. Downdetector is showing a sizable spike in people reporting issues with checkout, search, and logging in. The problem seems to be affecting both the site and the mobile apps.Several Verge staffers have experienced issues themselves. Clicking through to many products produces a "sorry, something went wrong" error, and even pages that do load are not showing pricing. Users have reported being repeatedly logged out of their accounts when trying to check out or load their cart. Even the parts of Amazon.com that are working seem to be loading …Read the full story at The Verge.

It’s a fun day when an ISP sends a new router for a fresh connection or an upgrade. All to enjoy faster speeds, fix dead zones, and improve internet coverage at home or the office. Meanwhile, the older router gets tossed into a drawer, where it becomes a permanent resident. Or worse, you throw it away.