I'm old-school and take most of my notes by hand, but I hate re-typing them into a note-taking app later. Thankfully, I've stumbled across a solution that not only handles most of the tedium for me but also saves me a lot of money on paper: a combination of Rocketbook and Obsidian. I take my notes in Rocketbook, a reusable notebook with a FriXion pen that can easily be erased. When I scan the page, it's automatically uploaded to my iCloud drive and then to Obsidian. There are other ways of doing this — in fact, setting up the entire system in Google Drive would likely be easier — but since I already use iCloud as a backup solution, this slots into my day-to-day workflow much more easily.

It’s-a-me, Ally-o. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Hey! I'm Sean Hollister, and I've been The Verge's unofficial handheld gaming PC reviewer since 2022, when the Steam Deck and kin took over my life. (I also helped launch this website back in the day!) I also just spent the past week reviewing the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, Microsoft's very first "Xbox" handhelds that are built and co-developed by Asus.We're doing a neat new thing where we let paying subscribers ask us anything about the hottest new gadgets, stories, and events - and I wasn't about to let my colleague Jen have all the fun! So today, I hosted my own subscriber-only AMA right here in the comments to this story, and I think …Read the full story at The Verge.

Integrated graphics built on desktop CPUs got a bad rap, especially for Intel in the 2010s which saw the introduction of a graphics core on the Clarkdale consumer desktop CPUs, which was the first generation of Intel Core i5 and i3 processors. Despite the bad reputation, the history of integrated graphics goes back more than a decade prior to Clarkdale.

It's a good day if you're into puzzle games. A little while ago, I reported that Chants of Sannaar, which holds a spot in my pantheon of "favorite puzzle games ever," was discounted as part of a Steam sale. Now, another one from that pantheon, Return of the Obra Dinn, has just gone on sale. It's as if someone at Valve has both a love for puzzle games and impeccable taste.

A rendering of the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility. | Image: X-energy via Amazon Amazon shared some new details about its plans to help deploy more nuclear energy across Washington State, where the company is headquartered.About a year ago, Amazon announced an agreement with Energy Northwest, a consortium of public utilities in Washington, to support the development of up to 12 advanced reactors by the early 2030s. Once complete, Amazon would have the right to purchase electricity from the first 320-megawatt phase of the project. The additional capacity would be open to Amazon and local utilities to use.What’s different about these reactors is that they’re small and modular, which is supposed to make them cheaper and easier to deploy than America’s existing fleet of nuclear power plants. Amazon shared several rendered images today of what the first plant might look like outside of Richland, Washington. Called the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, it’ll include three sections with a combined capacity of 960 megawatts, about enough electricity to power 770,000 homes in the US. While an old-school reactor with about the same capacity might spread across more than a square mile of land, according to Amazon, Cascade is expected to take up just a few city blocks.Amazon’s blog post today says that the Cascade facility should create about 100 permanent jobs, as well as more than 1,000 construction jobs. Considering these next-generation reactors are still under development and have to go through a licensing process, construction isn’t expected to start until the end of the decade.

There are a lot of things you can add to your desk setup, but a docking station is going to be one of our favorite options, expanding the capabilities of your devices with new ways to connect. And while we've seen plenty of different docking stations go on sale, this 20-in-1 from iVANKY is a sure winner thanks to its steep $100 discount.

Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that add a new generation M5 processor, faster storage, and a promise of 24-hour battery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports next year’s refresh will be more thorough. For several years, Gurman has said that, according to his sources, the next major MacBook Pro revamp would add touchscreens, OLED displays, and a lighter, thinner frame. He reported last month that nothing has changed about that plan other than pushing it back from a late 2025 launch due to OLED supply issues, and today, he expanded on those rumors with details of codenames (K114 and K116) and other specs.While Windows laptops have had touchscreens for years, Apple has avoided them, instead adding the Touch Bar to its machines for a few years before changing course in 2021. The report also teases another change that’s already a Windows feature but absent on Macs — a shift from Touch ID fingerprint scanning to Face ID authentication, which he says is still years away.Before that, he says we should still expect to see M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro updates with the current design released early next year. Similarly, updated versions of the MacBook Air, Mac Studio, Mac Mini, and two monitors are in the works.According to Gurman, the new MacBook Pros will contain M6 series Apple processors, a hole-punch style integrated webcam that’s more like the iPhone’s front-facing camera with its Dynamic Island, and reinforced hinges that don’t bounce around or shift while using the touchscreen. The bad news? Those changes are expected to increase the prices by “a few hundred dollars,” and they’re unlikely to reach Apple’s cheaper laptops the first time around.

I initially got into the home lab rabbit hole because of my Network-Attached Storage rig, but I’ve since moved on to dedicated virtualization platforms for server experiments. However, my NAS is still an important part of the setup, as it takes care of all my backup, data archival, and file-sharing needs. I also self-host a handful of services inside the NAS, including apps that help manage my smart home devices.

While we've only just waved goodbye to Windows 10's feature updates, Windows 11 continues as normal. After all, with Windows 11 now being the only operating system Microsoft supports with anything more than security updates, it needs to keep things fresh and exciting for its users.

If you own a Steam Deck but you don't want to be limited to playing games on Steam, there's a good chance you've heard about the Heroic Games Launcher. We've covered it ourselves a few years back as a great way to bring Epic Games titles such as Fortnite to the Steam Deck.

It's that time of the year again. Wallets are tighter, game wishlists are longer, and both Battlefield and Call of Duty have arrived at the worst possible time for anyone trying to budget responsibly. Between dinners, parties, and holiday gifts, buying two big AAA shooters back-to-back isn't something all players would be able to do. In fact, it's an important buying decision for the entire friend group, who are going to be spending their available time with the squad on one game instead of constantly hopping between two.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.Around the middle of last year, Pim de Witte started reaching out to a handful of prominent AI labs to see if they'd be interested in using data from Medal, his popular video game clipping platform, to train their agents.Within weeks, it became clear that Medal's data was more valuable to the labs than he expected. "We received multiple acquisition offers very quickly," he told me. (He declined to name names, but it has been reported that OpenAI offered $500 million.) "Initially, we were quite in …Read the full story at The Verge.