Back in May, Amazon officially cut support for its older Kindle models, preventing them from using the official store. While some people have found new uses for them, one person has had the brilliant idea of attaching a Raspberry Pi 4 to it. The result is a cool e-ink dashboard that re-uses the perfectly good Kindle tech.

If you've used KDE Plasma on an Nvidia card lately and felt the animations weren't as smooth as they could be, it's not just you. Ever since October 2024, triple buffering has been disabled for Nvidia hardware due to a bug. Fortunately, the fix has just been released as part of Plasma 6.7.3, and you can grab it now.

Windows 11 updates usually come with a handful of bugs, but they're not usually as nasty as the July update, which can cause specific Dell devices to overheat and randomly shut down. Fortunately, Microsoft caught the issue before the update went out, but it does mean some Dell users will need to wait for the latest Windows update.

Command Palette is a part of the PowerToys suite, and I find it convenient to use on my Windows PC. The launcher isn't inferior to other offerings like the Flow, and because it integrates with PowerToys tools, it has become a much more sensible choice for my workflow. Command Palette’s main role is centralized file access and search, along with perks like running shell commands, integrating with the native package manager, and a few more features.

Health startup Neko Health was founded by Hjalmar Nilsonne, left, and Daniel Ek, right. | Image: Neko Health Spotify founder Daniel Ek's body-scanning startup, Neko Health, is setting its sights on the United States after raising $700 million from a star-studded group of celebrities, entrepreneurs, and investment firms. It plans to open its first clinic in New York this year before expanding rapidly across the country. Neko operates private clinics offering full-body scans and blood tests using AI and custom-built medical equipment. Scans are designed to proactively screen customers for conditions including skin cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. The company says its goal is to catch problems early, prevent disease, and help people live longer. …Read the full story at The Verge.

The PlayStation Portal — not a new PS6. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The video game industry is in turmoil. Microsoft and Sony are starting to pivot to their next consoles, but it's not looking great: Prices are soaring, Sony is killing the video game disc, and Microsoft is jettisoning studios ahead of the transition. What could entice people to pay? On the Xbox front, we genuinely can't say. But on June 5th, Sony dropped an unusual number of hints about the future of PlayStation in an investor "business meeting" Q&A. This Q&A arrived a month before Sony announced the end of PlayStation discs. But when I reread it with the death of discs in mind… it hits differently. Let's walk through it, shall we?Pa …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows 11 is getting a new recovery feature that could quietly reserve up to 50GB of storage on your SSD, and chances are you'll never notice it happening. For this update, Microsoft isn't exactly asking for permission or presenting a setup wizard the first time you boot into the update. There's a new feature that Windows wants you to have, and it simply turns itself on and gets to work in the background.

The smaller Starlink V5 (right) next to the larger V4 dish. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX's latest residential dish - the Starlink V5 - is now available in "select areas." It's notably smaller and lighter than the V4 dish with improved power efficiency. It'll be available in more places as SpaceX ramps up production to meet global demand. The company notes that Starlink V5 is not intended for in-motion use - for that you'll have to wait for the revamped Starlink Mini teased alongside the V5 last month.The next generation Starlink Kit is designed to deliver reliable, high-speed home internet. Starlink V5 has a smaller form factor and lightweight design with greater power efficiency than the Starlink V4.With speeds up to …Read the full story at The Verge.

Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit that's changing how Android app stores work in the United States - and that means Google will be forced to carry rival app stores inside of its own. In fact, Google tells the court, it's ready to begin carrying third-party app stores on Wednesday, July 22nd. Does that mean it's time for Microsoft to launch an Xbox game store on Android?In October 2024, Judge James Donato originally agreed that forcing Google to carry rival Android app stores within its own Google Play store for several years, and forcing it to share its own entire catalog of …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've mostly used flagship motherboards throughout the years I've built my own PCs, but I've been using a midrange motherboard for the current build, and it was a mistake. The motherboard is the part that every other part of your PC depends on, and cheaping out comes with its own issues. There might not be issues with running your CPU and GPU, but with the rest of the platform, like fewer external and internal USB ports.

Samsung’s current generation of foldables (including the pictured Galaxy Z Fold 7) still struggle with display creasing. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung has unveiled a new flexible display technology for foldable phones that's designed to be slimmer, more durable, and less prone to creasing. The Flex Titanium tech is the culmination of everything that the company has learned over seven generations of foldables, according to Samsung, and will debut with the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. And since Samsung Display is a long-time Apple supplier, this improved display might even appear in the rumored iPhone foldable expected later this year.As its name suggests, the Flex Titanium display uses a combination of two titanium-based components to improve strength, flexi …Read the full story at The Verge.

I haven't made the jump to an external SSD. I still use external hard drives to store old backups, movies, shows, images, and videos. External SSDs never really seemed "affordable" enough to me, so I sacrificed the transfer speeds in favor of lower cost per GB. If you're the proud owner of one of the newer external SSDs, boasting 1,000–4,000 MB/s speeds, you might be surprised to know that these blazing-fast speeds require way too many prerequisites. And most people are probably using systems and cables that aren't equipped with the bandwidth needed to deliver these speeds. Your external SSD might feel fast enough to you, but unless you monitor the real-time transfer rate, your drive could be operating at only half its speed, or even worse. External SSDs rated for USB4 need a 40 Gbps connection, which is easy to break if even one link in the entire chain doesn't support the required bandwidth.