Cooling is essential for any PC, because proper airflow can keep your system running longer and harder, while also potentially increasing performance. So, it's something worth taking a look at whether you're building a new PC or looking to upgrade something you've been using for years.

Google I/O is still a week away, but Google's big announcements kick off today with the "Android Show: I/O Edition," where it's expected to announce the major Android ecosystem highlights coming to its annual developer conference.When the Android Show will happen and where you can watch itAndroid Show: I/O Edition will be streaming live on YouTube and the Android website on Tuesday, May 12th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Based on last year's Android Show, we can expect the highlights to include a look at the next major Android update along with announcements about Gemini features on Android and potentially teases of some more forward-facing proje …Read the full story at The Verge.

No thank you, we’re good. | Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images eBay has officially rejected GameStop's offer to buy the online marketplace for $56 billion, citing concerns around "operational risks" and how the acquisition will be financed. In a letter to GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen on Tuesday, eBay's board of directors said it has "concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive.""We have taken into account such factors as 1) eBay's standalone prospects, 2) the uncertainty regarding your financing proposal, 3) the impact of your proposal on eBay's long-term growth and profitability, 4) the leverage, operational risks, and leadership structure of a combined entity, 5) the resulting implic …Read the full story at The Verge.

Gemini Intelligence comes with a Liquid Glass-ish visual treatment. | Image: Google It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase, many of which aim to help use your phone for you. You'll find Gemini in more places, like Chrome on Android, in your autofill suggestions, and all up in your apps - if you want.Google also has a new name for us to remember, because it just can't help itself: Gemini Intelligence. It "brings the very best of Gemini to our most advanced Android devices," according to Google's director of Android experiences, Ben Greenwood. Google is bundling some existing and new Gemini features under this name, and seems to be reserving t …Read the full story at The Verge.

The simplicity of spinning up containers in Docker is one of home lab's few simplicites. Find a service that looks interesting, pull the image, write a quick Compose file or a docker run command, publish a port, hit the web UI in a browser. It takes five minutes to go from an idea to a running service.

The Reon Pocket Pro Plus delivers a 20 percent improvement in cooling performance over last year’s model. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a new version of the wearable personal air conditioner the company first revealed in 2019 ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The latest version is an upgrade to last year's Pro model, and while the new Reon Pocket Pro Plus isn't a complete overhaul of the hardware, it comes with performance upgrades and design updates making it easier to wear discreetly under many kinds of shirts. It's launching in Europe and other markets today for €229/£199, or around $270. As with all the previous versions, Sony hasn't mentioned plans to bring it to the US.Instead of simply blasting you with air like the Dyson HushJet Mini Cool, the Re …Read the full story at The Verge.

Local LLMs have gone from a curiosity thing I poked at, to something I actually use on the regular now. Not for everything - cloud AI still wins at most tasks - but mainly personal documents I need to work through, anything where handing a cloud model the context feels like the wrong call. This use case alone made the whole thing worth setting up, and from there, I've just started paying more attention to what open models are actually capable of doing.

When Intel launched its Arc Alchemist GPUs in 2022, the reception was rather rough. The drivers were a mess, the performance was all but consistent, and hardware reviewers were quick with their verdicts. Two years later, the Battlemage arrived, and the $250 Arc B580 completely changed the pricing and performance conversations in the industry. Now, Team Blue is eyeing the handheld PC market again, which AMD has dominated for years with its Ryzen Z series processors.

Panasonic has announced a new addition to its Lumix camera line with a compact body and fixed lens that's targeted at photographers instead of creators making video content. The Lumix L10 is available for preorder today with a black or silver finish for $1,499.99. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Lumix brand, the L10 will also be available in a titanium gold finish with matching accessories and software for $1,599.99, but only in limited numbers and primarily through Panasonic's online store.The Lumix L10 weighs 508 grams and features a magnesium alloy front case and a metal exterior partially wrapped in a textured finish designed …Read the full story at The Verge.

I ran Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for over a year. Though the Pi booted from an NVMe SSD, the Pi's 4GB memory limit became difficult to ignore as I built ESPHome devices. Recently, I moved Home Assistant to a mini PC and almost shelved the Pi, since it was just sitting in the corner doing nothing.

I really liked Google’s Antigravity when it was announced last year. The reason was it had a generous rate limit and was quite functional, being based on the Electron project, which is the same foundation as VS Code. You could get quite a lot done using even the Pro models in Antigravity, but now, when I went back to Gemini last week, things were very different. The rate limits are abysmal now. The platform is not even usable if you are not a Pro member. The free tier is basically a trial that does not even last half an hour if you try to do any serious work. I should not be complaining about not getting enough rate limit for free, but when you look at something like Codex, which has more than generous rate limits across both the Codex app and the VS Code extension, you start to question why you shouldn’t close Antigravity for good.

iRobot upgrades its lidar-based robot vacuum line with eight new models. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums. This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its current lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include higher suction power, a smaller overall size to better navigate your home, more models with roller mops, and the introduction of "hot spot mopping." iRobot filed for bankruptcy late last year, underwent a reboot, and is now owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics, a Chinese original design manufacturer of robotic vacuums. The company says its new lineup is up to 25 percent smaller f …Read the full story at The Verge.