We loved the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D in our review. Not only does it provide impressive power for gaming, but it's also very efficient. We also liked the price. Even at its MSRP, we felt that it provided tons of value for someone looking to build a powerful gaming PC. So, as you can imagine, we were pretty excited to see this CPU on sale, coming in at one of its lowest prices to date.

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th, as previously reported by A3. Under Playter's leadership, Boston Dynamics navigated its way through an acquisition from Softbank that brought it to Hyundai in 2021, and it launched a new all-electric version of its humanoid Atlas robot in 2024. Just a few days ago, the company posted another video of its research Atlas robots attempting tumbling passes and outdoor runs as more enterprise-ready editions start to roll out.Boston Dynamics announced at CES last month that Atlas robo …Read the full story at The Verge.

PowerToys updates can be a real excitement rollercoaster. Sometimes they introduce brand-new tools that revolutionise how you use Windows, and sometimes they just contain bug fixes. However, regardless of how "boring" a patch is, all of them are really important for creating both a feature-rich and stable toolbox for Windows power users. The fanciest tools in the world won't make a difference if they don't work, after all.

There are some really cool things going on with plants that we can't see on the surface. For instance, they use bioelectrical signals that we can't see or feel, but we can harness in a way that allows us to perceive them. For instance, someone can take the signals, feed them into software, and convert them into audio waves that let us hear what's going on within those leaves.

Demonstrators hold a "Save The Post" sign next to a cutout image of Jeff Bezos during a "Save The Post" rally outside the Washington Post headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. | Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politicking in the age of Trump. If you're a subscriber, you are dominant and talented, like the Seattle Seahawks. If you're not a subscriber yet, it's time to get your act together, like the New England Patriots. (I'm from Boston and I'm allowed to say this.) The biggest tech story dominating Washington right now is, incidentally, a media story. Last week, shortly after The Washington Post laid off 400 staffers and closed many of its desks, and before its absentee CEO Will Lewis got summarily shoved out, I wrote a column trying to figure out whether there was e …Read the full story at The Verge.

The ad promotes Ring cameras’ new capability to search neighborhoods for a lost dog. | Screenshot from Ring video Ring's new Search Party feature has once again drawn backlash for the company. A 30-second ad that aired during Sunday's Super Bowl showed Ring cameras "surveilling" neighborhoods to locate a lost dog. In the current political climate, a prime-time ad celebrating neighborhood surveillance struck a nerve.People voiced concerns across social media that the AI-powered technology Ring uses to identify dogs could soon be used to search for humans. Combined with Ring's recent rollout of its new facial recognition capability, it feels like a short leap for a pet-finding feature to be turned into a tool for state surveillance. Privacy expert Chr …Read the full story at The Verge.

Obsidian is an amazing tool for, well, just about anything. While it's designed to be a knowledge management system, there are loads of other applications. That said, it does have a few downsides; namely, syncing across devices can be difficult to pull off without paying for a subscription. While there are free options, they aren't always reliable, and the Obsidian subreddit has recently seen a spate of posts about users losing data when syncing through services like iCloud and Google Drive.

While I'll be one of the first to shout to the heavens that 2026 will be the year of gaming on Linux, I'll also be quick to admit that the scene is definitely not perfect. Sometimes you need to perform some tweaking to get a game running just right, and hopefully, with all the advancements that Linux devs have been making over the years,

Raspberry Pi 5 was a popular single-board computer that offered a solid starting point compared to mini PCs. But in the past few years, the market has changed. With the influx of used office mini PCs available online, the gap between them and the Pi 5 has narrowed.

Sometimes, someone will create something that gives us a peek into an alternate reality. For example, what if smart devices took off in the mid-90s and gave us wonders like a smart toaster that ran off Windows 95? Yes, they're impractical, and yes, they're not solving any actual problems; however, they are really cool, which is always a win in my book.

Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don't make trouble. That's what many tech workers are taking their CEOs' strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration crackdown across the US by the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security. Widespread violence by federal agents has sparked protests in Minneapolis and across the country. One month after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, and two weeks after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, the majority of tech CEOs have remained tight-lipped. Internally, workers from several companies describe a culture of silence and fear - and trepidation over what kind …Read the full story at The Verge.

Toyota unveiled the new 2027 Highlander, a fully redesigned midsize SUV that marks the brand's first three-row electric vehicle for the US market and the first Toyota EV assembled in America. It's a familiar name - Toyota has been selling gas Highlanders for over 20 years - with an all-new powertrain aimed directly at one of the most popular vehicle segments in the market today. To say this is Toyota's best chance to best its EV rivals would be an understatement.The announcement comes at a tumultuous time for the world's best-selling automaker. Toyota's strategy of emphasizing hybrid vehicles over pure battery-electric ones seems to have b …Read the full story at The Verge.