In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said his company would pay out positions on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?" at the last trading price before his death. Mansour said that Kalshi doesn't "list markets directly tied to death" and that its rules are designed to "prevent people from profiting from death." In addition, Kalshi is refunding fees related to the market and reimbursing anyone who purchased shares after Khamenei's death. Some users have voiced anger at how the situation was handled, claiming that either Kalshi's rules should have been communicated more clearly, or that its markets should have been more narrowly wor …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've lost count of how many times I've seen someone blame the cooler when their CPU temperatures look scary. I totally get it, though. When you spend a premium on a dual-tower air cooler or a 360mm AIO, you expect CPU temperatures to comfortably stay below 80C while gaming. But with modern CPUs, that's often not the case, which is why many people start wondering whether they picked the wrong cooler or messed up the installation. Sometimes, they're even quick to replace the thermal paste.

Back in the '90s, handheld gaming devices were hungry for batteries. I remember going through them by the packet to power my Pokémon Blue playthrough, and while I never owned a Sega Game Gear, I heard they chewed through six AAs in five hours flat. Battery companies probably made a tidy profit off of handheld consoles.

Lego's new Smart Brick is a pretty big deal. It packs a miniature computer, a microphone, and NFC tech into a classic 2×4 Lego brick, which can power all sorts of new experiences with select sets. It has so much promise that we awarded it "best in show" at CES 2026, and now, eight Star Wars-themed sets that support the Smart Brick (and include it, in some cases) are now available.Three of them include at least one Smart Brick, along with a charging cradle and cable, while the rest are merely "Smart Play compatible," meaning they're BYOB (bring your own brick). The interactivity of the NFC tags and the smart minifigurs won't be possible unl …Read the full story at The Verge.

I saw the camera arm unfold from this demo phone, though it didn’t do much else. Honor has revealed more details of its so-called Robot Phone at MWC 2026, and finally showed a working unit in action alongside a dancing humanoid robot. Specs are still thin on the ground, but the company has confirmed it plans to release the phone in the second half of this year - though I've been told that will only be in China.The Robot Phone doesn't quite live up to the name - really it's a smartphone with a gimbal-stabilized camera arm crammed into the back. Honor has now revealed that the main camera will have a 200-megapixel sensor, and is built into what it says is the smallest 4DoF gimbal system in the industry, though those are …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've built PCs long enough, you've definitely done something a bit "jank", or perhaps installed a component of dubious quality because of a tight budget. I know I certainly have, and in those scenarios, we're all aware of the risks involved in regard to hardware failure, but when you buy brand-new components, there's no reason to believe they should fail out of the box.

The last day or two have been very tumultuous in the world of American AI. On Friday, we saw Donald Trump declare that he was cutting the use of Anthropic within governmental agencies. A few hours later, OpenAI announced that it had struck a deal with the Department of War to tailor an AI model that fits the military's needs without breaking down OpenAI's guardrails.

We'd be lying if we said that we aren't always looking for ways to make our PCs run faster and perform better. While the more enthusiastic PC users would always advocate installing a Linux distro on your PC to make it less resource-hungry, there remains the matter of nearly 70% of the global desktop user base being on Windows, myself included.

We finally have an update to the Soundcore Space One that launched two and a half years ago. At MWC 2026, Soundcore has announced the Space 2, which will be available in the US on April 21st in three colors - linen white, jet black, and seafoam green - for $129.99. That's $30 more than the Space One's original price.According to Soundcore, the Space 2 have had a full-band noise cancellation upgrade with the focus of those improvements on the low-frequency sounds we all generally use ANC headphones to block - things like airplane, train, and bus engine sounds while traveling. The Space 2 use the same number of microphones as the Space One f …Read the full story at The Verge.

A few weeks ago, I gave AerynOS a spin because nobody was really talking about it. What I found was a cool little distro that offered the atomic experience without the immutable filesystem. Usually, the two go hand-in-hand, so it was interesting to see what happened when a distro adopted one but not the other.

Most modern password managers have quietly turned into online services where you create an account, login, and your vault synchronizes through someone else's infrastructure. It's certainly very convenient, there's no denying that, but I wanted something simpler. A password manager that works even when my internet doesn't, or one that I can have in a portable form factor, so setting up my accounts on new devices or fresh installs doesn't require the same song and dance with Bitwarden every time. KeePassXC turned out to be the perfect open-source replacement, allowing for an offline encrypted vault that I control at all times.

Grocery lists become a daily argument when someone adds an item, someone else buys it, and someone else realizes the list was never updated. Most apps that solve this require a subscription, an account, or an ecosystem, leading to texting, screenshots, and crossed fingers.