The popularity of sports has always been associated with a variety of sports games that were developed and released on consoles over the decades. Some of the most beloved games weren't focused on being simulations of real sports, but were instead arcade sports titles that greatly exaggerated the concepts of physical sports. Games like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz dominated arcades with how quick they were to get into and incredibly fun they were to play. But in the wake of their success back in the 90s, other kinds of arcade sports titles were made for home consoles, and even focused on different sports that didn't always involve the biggest American sports back then.

The laptop landscape is so vast at this point that it's easy to get lost in the sea of choices available. But if you're looking for something simple that will get the job done and last you for a while, the Dell 14 Plus is a good one to go with. It's got a sleek design, great specifications, at a price that's easy to afford. For a limited time, you can scoop up this laptop from Amazon for just $800 thanks to a steep discount. Plus, you get Amazon's 30-day return policy, which keeps things simple and easy if you don't like it.

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W may be small, but it has become one of the most dependable pieces of hardware in my home lab. I wanted a lightweight, always-on system to track uptime, latency, and service performance without adding noise or power draw. After months of running Uptime Kuma alongside Grafana and Prometheus, the Pi Zero 2 W has proven itself to be a powerful and practical monitoring platform.

Different people have different opinions about what PowerToys' best tools are, as everyone's workflow is different. However, some tools are designed to help pretty much everyone, and one such example is the Command Palette. And the good news is that Microsoft has finally fixed one of its biggest issues in the latest PowerToys update.

If you lost your Google password or you couldn't access your two-factor authentication (2FA) anymore, which friend would you trust to get you back on your feet within 15 minutes of you asking them for help? If you can name at least one, then you may want to check out what Google has been cooking up. The company is adding a way to add trusted contacts that can help you recover your account should you ever lose access to it for some reason.

For years, I kept paying monthly fees for project management and invoicing. I was a long-time Zoho user. Now, I know there are a ton of great, paid subscription tools out there. But I kept hitting annoying limits on how many clients and projects I could have before they made me pay for an upgrade. More than the money, I wanted full control over my own data and tools. I decided I needed to stop renting and start owning my work process.

If you run Docker containers, accessing log files is part and parcel of the experimentation process. Every app, service, and background job you set up throws lines of code into a never-ending stream of code. You'll usually find me neck-deep in Portainer's log screen, trying to figure out why a particular container failed or didn't run. You can scroll through these logs or tail them in the terminal, but that's only helpful if you're actively looking at the terminal. What happens when a container fails mysteriously in the dead of the night?

Running a home network that’s both fast and private takes more than just blocking ads. For years, I relied on Pi-hole to keep unwanted traffic out of my devices’ DNS requests. It worked well, but something about depending on external resolvers like Cloudflare or Google DNS never felt completely under my control. I wanted to bring that part of the process home as well.

We have all been there: a massive research file lands on our desk, and we spend the next few hours drowning in text just to find key takeaways. That overwhelming feeling is why I overhauled my entire research process. And the secret weapon for that is NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature.

Your motherboard is the most important piece of hardware in your computer for a lot of reasons. Not only do the quality of the parts used to build it matter significantly, but the UEFI or BIOS handles the initlization of all of your PC's components, and if this is built improperly, it can cause instability and other problems. However, because your motherboard is so vital as a part of the early-boot process, the steps taken by the manufacturer to harden security are incredibly important. Yet some don't appear to care.

If you were dumped in a world where people spoke an entirely different language and held unique customs from those on Earth, how confident are you that you'd be able to decipher what everyone is saying via context clues? If that sounds like something you'd love the opportunity to do, then Chants of Sennaar is the game for you. I picked it up in a sale a while ago, and I had a blast completing all of the content and getting the best ending. Now I'm gently sliding it across the table to you, as the game is now 40% off on Steam and, in my opinion, well worth it.

As trade tensions grow between the US and China, Microsoft is reportedly preparing to move the manufacturing of its Surface laptops and tablets out of China. Nikkei reports that Microsoft is aiming to move manufacturing of Surface devices and data center servers out of China “starting from 2026 at the earliest.”The move will reportedly include components, parts, and product assembly for future Surface hardware and server products. The report claims Microsoft has already shifted some of its existing server production outside China, and is pushing to also produce more Xbox consoles outside of the country.News of Microsoft’s potential manufacturing changes comes just days after President Trump threatened China with an additional 100 percent tariff and more export controls on software. The US and China have also started charging new port fees on each other’s ships in recent days, just a week after Beijing tightened export rules on rare earths.Microsoft is far from the only company trying to expand its manufacturing outside of China. Apple is also reportedly preparing to manufacture a series of new devices in Vietnam. Bloomberg reports that Apple’s rumored smart home display hub, indoor security cameras, and a “more advanced tabletop robot” are set to be manufactured in Vietnam, in an effort to shift manufacturing away from China.