A simple way to enhance your current monitor is to add a streaming stick. While some new models have smart TV features built-in, older models and more barebone monitors do not. Adding streaming functionality can really do a lot to enhance the monitor experience, transforming it into the ultimate entertainment hub in your home.

For the longest time, I used the GeForce Experience app to update my GPU drivers, even though it was far from perfect. The main reason for that was convenience and familiarity. I'd see an update notification in the system tray, click Download, proceed with express installation, and move on with my day. I didn't think much about what new features Nvidia was adding and whether I actually needed any of them. But ever since Nvidia replaced GeForce Experience with the Nvidia app, I felt like I needed a cleaner way to update my drivers.

When it comes to Windows productivity, we usually focus on the heavy hitters – the AI browsers, the Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), and the project management suites that take up all our screen real estate. But some of the most impactful tools in my workflow are the ones I never actually open.

Transferring data between iPhones and Android devices is about to get a lot easier. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge After introducing AirDrop support to Pixel 10 devices last year, Google is now set to expand it to phones made by other Android partners. Eric Kay, vice president of engineering for Android, confirmed in a press briefing attended by Android Authority that "a lot more" Android devices will be able to use Quick Share to initiate AirDrop sessions with Apple devices this year."We spent a lot of time and energy to make sure that we could build something that was compatible not only with iPhone but iPads and MacBooks," Kay said. "Now that we've proven it out, we're working with our partners to expand it into the rest of the ecosystem, and you sh …Read the full story at The Verge.

As much as I adore all my self-hosted tools, there are certain services that I simply couldn’t survive without. Pulse, for instance, is the sole monitoring utility for my home lab, especially since it pairs well with my server rigs, Docker hubs, and Proxmox workstations. Likewise, my Kopia, PBS, and TrueNAS instances are the sole reason I haven’t lost any data despite some catastrophic failures in my experiments.

Wireless is the way most people go when it comes to connecting their devices to a network. However, wired is going to be a better option, offering increased speeds and better reliability. Naturally, not all devices can connect this way natively, but if you have the option, it's the way we'd recommend.

There are a few ways a Raspberry Pi project can catch my eye, and one of them is when you can interact with it over the internet. For example, every year, I love to check out the lovely Raspberry Pi-powered Christmas village you can play with using buttons in your browser. A YouTube stream lets you see what you're doing in real time, and it's always a delight.

Windows 11 didn't have the best start to 2026. After Microsoft rolled out the January update, people have been reporting all sorts of strange bugs cropping up. For instance, Windows 11 would refuse to shut down properly, and Outlook would cause issues with system stability.

I was always one to pay for productivity software. In the early 2010s, I paid for Microsoft Office and Adobe to enjoy a full creative suite for writing and media. It worked brilliantly, but also cost a small fortune for the luxury. Times have changed, and so have my photography requirements, switching careers and requiring tools to process RAW files and manage catalogs without sacrificing quality.

A common assumption when it comes to building a Plex or Jellyfin server is that more graphical horsepower would mean better performance, and that's a quite understandable mistake. For many years, video transcoding has relied on software encoding, where CPU core count was the key determiner of how many streams could be handled at once.

Fortnite developer Epic Games says the account some people believed to be linked to Jeffrey Epstein is a "ruse." In a reply on X, the developer writes, "an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username" to "littlestjeff1," an alias spotted in several emailed receipts from YouTube in the Epstein files.The email suggests that "littlestjeff1" may have been connected to Epstein's YouTube account, prompting online sleuths to search for the username on other platforms. Users later uncovered a "littlestjeff1" account on Fortnite, along with a 2019 email that mentions purchasing VBucks in Fortnite - though the sender and recipient are red …Read the full story at The Verge.

300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who purchased the legendary publication in 2013, has driven his reputation into the ground by using his vast empire to churn out content designed to make President Donald Trump happy: Amazon MGM Studios spent $40 million to produce a fawning documentary about Melania Trump, which premiered days before the Post sent out mass layoff notices. And yet, he's gotten nothing out of his attempts to suck up to Donald Trump - at least, nothing that's a net positive to his bottom line. Which begs the cynical question: …Read the full story at The Verge.