I’ve spent a long time bouncing between Photoshop and its alternatives, until I eventually completely ditched the Adobe subscription and started solely relying on free and open-source editors. Like many others, one of the first places I turned to was GIMP. It’s a solid editor, and it’s gotten some great upgrades in the past few years, but after the honeymoon period wears off, you start to realize its flaws. The interface is still a bit clunky and outdated, and there’s still no true non-destructive editing. Sometimes, GIMP can feel more like a compromise than a solution.

I love printing fun things like dragons and miniatures, but this past month reminded me how much real-world utility a 3D printer can deliver. Most of these prints weren’t even for me. Friends and family asked for small fixes, and the results were far more helpful than anyone expected. Some were quick wins, others small experiments that turned into everyday helpers.

I can say with great certainty that one of the most surprising games I've played in 2025 is Ghost of Yotei on PlayStation 5. After it was first revealed, I knew the game was going to be very good as a follow-up to Sucker Punch Productions' previous title, Ghost of Tsushima. But I wasn't prepared for how much I would enjoy exploring the land of Ezo and engaging with its many side quests and emotional battles. But it wasn't until the very final battle of the game, with Takezo the Unrivialed, that I stopped to reflect on my time with Ghost of Yotei, and how epic of a journey I just went on.

Mac wallpaper optional, but encouraged. Ledger’s fifth Nano crypto wallet marks a moment of reinvention: it’s not nearly so “nano” anymore, and Ledger would prefer you didn’t call it a crypto wallet either. It’s grown in size, picked up a full E Ink display, and is now being billed as a “signer.”The $179 Ledger Nano Gen5 resembles the $249 Flex and $399 Stax more than it does the USB stick-sized Nano X that it replaces. Like the Flex, it looks a little like a tiny little E Ink smartphone, with a roughly three-inch touchscreen dominating the slim device. The plastic build immediately feels cheaper and flimsier than the Flex, which makes sense — this boasts almost all the same features, so is differentiated mostly by design and a simpler two-color E Ink display, rather than full grayscale.Giving the Nano a bigger screen is intended to make it quicker and easier to use, and more secure too — it can display the full details of a transaction at once, making it easier to spot errors and issues. It leaves the “Nano” name a little out of place within Ledger’s lineup, though this is still small enough to carry round as a second device alongside your phone.But the screen is also about making the Nano more appealing to a new audience of customers – people who have never felt the need for a crypto wallet, and perhaps don’t own crypto at all. That’s why Ledger now calls its hardware a “signer”: it’s pitching this as the essential new device to prove your identity in the era of age-gating and AI. This isn’t an entirely new idea. Sam Altman’s side project World is making the same case, and with a crypto angle too, only it imagines that you’ll authenticate yourself with the help of an eyeball-scanning Orb. Ledger, at least, will let you keep your eyeballs to yourself.Instead, you can use the Nano and its secure chip to prove who you are. Right now that mostly means verifying crypto transactions or providing a passkey for account logins, neither of which is really new — Ledger’s wallets have always been a more secure way to access crypto, rather than true cold storage for the money itself. But the company is looking forward, imagining a future where you might use a Ledger signer to authorize your AI agent to buy plane tickets, or prove your age so that you don’t need to provide government ID to Discord.It’s making the new Nano more accessible with that wider future audience in mind. Part of that is practical — previous Ledger accounts were secured with a 24-word recovery phrase that you were encouraged to only store offline, in physical form, in case you lose the hardware. It’s secure, but fiddly. Instead, the new Nano ships with Ledger’s small NFC Recovery Key, introduced over the summer, which is a simpler way to restore account access.Then there are the cutesy new accessories, designed by original Mac icon designer Susan Kare. She was brought in by iPod creator Tony Fadell, now a Ledger board member, to design a range of 13 icons for small metal badges that slot into the hole on the new Nano. Sold in three-packs for $20, there’ll be nine default designs at launch, with a further three basketball-themed options to mark Ledger’s sponsorship of the San Antonio Spurs, and a limited edition design based on the original Ledger Nano being given to attendees at this week’s Ledger Op3n event in Paris. The questions for Ledger are how long it can sustain itself on crypto bros alone, and whether the market for secure personal authenticators is really going to expand beyond that crypto crowd. No-one wants face scans and ID card checks to prove they’re old enough to buy Steam games, but how many people are willing to drop $179 to get around it?

Less than two days ago, OpenAI came out swinging in the fight for the future of the internet with the release of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser it hopes will topple Google Chrome. Adam Fry, OpenAI’s Atlas leader, says the team is already “heads down making it better” and teased a bunch of new features on the way. “Profiles coming!” Fry said. Tab groups and an opt-in ad blocker are also on their way in the near future. The features, common to many popular internet browsers, were included on a list of “post-launch fixes” for Atlas that Fry posted on X. Most of these should land “over the coming weeks,” he said, “though some may take a little longer.” The list includes a series of quality of life upgrades like an overflow bookmarks menu and a list of shortcuts. Changes are also on the way to the browser’s key AI features. This includes the agent — which is only available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users for now and can take actions for you — and the Ask ChatGPT sidebar, which integrates the company’s flagship chatbot. The agent will be getting better response times, a more reliable “pause” function, and improved integration with products like Google Drive and cloud Excel, Fry said. The sidebar will be easier to use without leaving and let users pick different projects or AI models directly without having to navigate away. We've received incredible feedback since launching our new browser, ChatGPT Atlas, yesterday. We're really focused on building the best product for all of you, and since launch, the team has been heads down making it better. In the spirit of transparency, these are the very… pic.twitter.com/UzQSqcxwpj— Adam Fry (@adamhfry) October 23, 2025“If you have more suggestions for us, let us know!” Fry said. His responses to suggestions indicate OpenAI already has a solid prototype that would let users directly copy and insert text from the Ask ChatGPT sidebar. He also said it would be a good idea if the browser automatically reopened pinned tabs when closing and restarting. Fry said the team is also working on some “specific,” though unspecified, fixes for password manager 1Password. “There are other things we’re working on, but those may involve partners, and we’ve left those off this list.”

The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro monitor will change your flow. Most gadgets are iterative in the value they bring to our lives. The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro portable monitor is different, having utterly transformed the way I work remotely over the last month of testing. See, I spend a lot of time working from my van, which makes me miss my dual-monitor setup at home - it's hard to adapt to a single 14-inch laptop display after regularly working on a pair of 27-inch monitors. Espresso lets me approximate that setup in tight spaces with a display that's thinner and much lighter than the Mac or Windows laptop it enhances. And it connects over a single USB-C cable.I'm writing this from my van's "office," …Read the full story at The Verge.

The base is the hub of the ADT Plus system. My front door unlocks automatically as I walk up to it, and the home security system disarms itself - no code or app required. The system has recognized me using the Google Nest Doorbell's Familiar Faces, and confirmed I'm me using my phone's location. The dual-factor authentication triggers the automatic disarming and unlocking, so all I have to do is walk inside.This hands-free Auto Unlock experience is powered by ADT Plus, the newest security system from America's oldest security company. It features the usual hardware - a base, sensors, and accessories - but represents a major upgrade from fumbling for keys or racing to silence a beepi …Read the full story at The Verge.

The world of technology is always evolving and changing, and that means the path to where we are today is also littered with the remnants of services, products, and projects that were simply gone too soon. There's frankly no shortage of things worth remembering due to them deserving better than what they got.

In the war between my brain and productivity apps, I keep winning. Over the years, I've dived into new software to improve my workflow, only to often not find the gains I hoped for. A lot of this has to do with the overlooked drawbacks of productivity apps, as well as the way my brain works and the unique daily challenges I face.

As the proud owner of a new OLED monitor, you probably know how to prevent burn-in on your precious new display. Burn-in might have become less of a bogeyman compared to a few years ago, but OLED displays still require a fair bit of babying if you want them to last long. However, burn-in is just one of the many necessary evils you need to deal with on OLED monitors. As they're more fragile than other panels, you need to be more careful when it comes to positioning and cleaning them. Also, depending on the kind of OLED display you have, reflections could destroy those perfect blacks that you paid a fortune for.

A New York Times report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring more people, but today the company has issued a PR blast about robotics and delivery tech that is much sunnier. Along with a tease of AI-connected augmented reality smart glasses and VR training for its drivers, Amazon showed off 10 robots it’s using or testing right now (it didn’t mention whether any of them had issues during the recent AWS outage).In one post, Amazon highlighted Blue Jay, a robot it calls “an extra set of hands that helps employees with tasks that involve reaching and lifting,” and its agentic AI system Project Eluna, which “acts like an extra teammate, helping reduce that cognitive load” while optimizing sorting to reduce bottlenecks.Blue Jay can move 75 percent of the types of items Amazon stores, and is eventually supposed to be a “core technology” powering Same-Day delivery sites. The company says it developed Blue Jay in just over a year based on AI, digital twins, and data from robots already in use, creating a system that “coordinates multiple robotic arms to perform many tasks at once, collapsing what used to be three separate robotic stations into one streamlined workspace that can pick, stow, and consolidate in a single place.”Amazon Robotics chief technologist Tye Brady says in the company’s post that, “The real headline isn’t about robots.. It’s about people—and the future of work we’re building together.” The blog post also reiterates a spokesperson’s response to the Times report, saying that “no company has created more jobs in the U.S. over the past decade than Amazon,” and touting plans to fill 250,000 positions for the holiday season. CEO Andy Jassy’s June letter to employees about the impact of efficiency is a bit clearer. He wrote about generative AI, saying, “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs. It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.”The Times report suggests a similar plan for robotics and automation, citing Jassy’s push to cut e-commerce costs and showing examples of how its warehouse overhauls are creating facilities that process more items with fewer employees who increasingly will focus on taking care of the robots.

Considering the sheer number of NAS-centric distributions out there, choosing the right operating system for your storage server can seem rather tiresome. After all, unless you’re willing to wipe everything and start from scratch, you’ll be stuck with the distro once you’ve initialized the data pools. Modern NAS operating systems tend to ship with tons of packages and extra facilities to simplify your file transfer, backup, and data archival workloads.