Vertical GPU mounts have become an extremely popular way to display your graphics card. Pair a vertical GPU mount with a glass side panel and your PC build becomes centered around your graphics card with it being front and center. With the soaring price of graphics cards, why wouldn't you want to show off these extremely expensive PC components? Some special edition graphics cards even feature aesthetic upgrades such as RGB or prints of your favorite anime characters.

The idea of an agentic operating system sounds great on paper. Instead of clicking through menus and doing monotonous tasks yourself, you tell your computer what you want through a prompt, and it figures out how to perform that task on its own. Files can be moved around, settings changed, emails drafted and sent, and most importantly, these tasks are chained together with minimal input from the user.

BMX’s SolidSafe 5K in that Apple orange color. | Image: BMX A new company called BMX, founded by accessory royalty, has emerged from Kickstarter to make its SolidSafe semi-solid state power banks available to the general public. Like the Kuxiu semi-solid state power banks I've recently reviewed, BMX's promise to have twice the longevity and be safer than traditional power banks, which have been the subject of recall after recall in 2025, attracting the attention of the FAA and airlines.BMX, which stands for Better Mobile Xperience, is lead by Daniel Chin, the man who founded Sanho, the company behind those Hyper-branded batteries and accessories long adored by Apple users. Targus bought Sanho in …Read the full story at The Verge.

Thermal paste has an interesting reputation in the PC hardware space. Its application method is something that was incredibly divisive in the 2010s, but more recently, it's becoming more of an afterthought. It’s treated as both a consumable and a performance upgrade, something that supposedly dries out, degrades quickly, and quietly sabotages your CPU temperatures if you don’t stay on top of it.

Another year has almost passed us by, and it's time to round up the worst PC hardware launches, trends, and realities that we witnessed in the last 12 months. The year was relatively thin in terms of new products since neither Intel nor AMD released any new desktop CPU lineups. Still, we had enough drama and mayhem to last us well into the next year (and maybe even beyond that). From motherboards killing CPUs and GPUs missing crucial internals to disappointing products and worrying trends, the year had it all. While we wait for the next year to bring new products (and problems), let's nurse old wounds as we look back at the year that was.

It's no secret that I've been critical of my Apple TV 4K (2021). What was once my favorite streaming platform, primarily because of tvOS' slick UI and the set-top box's reliability, has descended into a love-hate relationship where I find myself constantly frustrated with its sometimes laggy menus, increasingly glitchy apps, and weird audio problems.

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act by using "deceptive means" to automatically access and take Google's search results "at an astonishing scale" before selling the data to customers.Reddit also sued SerpApi, along with two other data scrapers, in October, accusing "at least one" of ripping content from its site for the AI startup Perplexity. Though Google's complaint briefly mentions Reddit's lawsuit against SerpApi, it doesn't directly say anything about Perplexity or AI bots.Google's la …Read the full story at The Verge.

Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere spend the holidays indoors, but you can only watch so many TikToks about cute cats and cooking hacks before the need for something a little more substantive kicks in. Choosing the right game or movie to gift is tough, though, especially if you don't have an exact read on what your friends and family like. And if you choose poorly, remember that you might also be on the hook to play or watch it with them.That's why, this year, we made it our mission to find gifts that appeal to people with diverse interests across a wide price range. If you know a Wes Anderson devotee, Criterion's lavish box set is a gr …Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose whether you want "more" or "less" of these personality traits, or stick with the default.There are also options to tweak how often ChatGPT uses emoji, headers, and lists. You can find these settings by tapping the menu at the top left corner of the ChatGPT app, selecting your profile, heading to Personalization, and choosing Add Characteristics. Alongside these options, you can pick a "personality" for the AI chatbot, including whether it's quirky, professional, friendly, cynical, and m …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Christmas holiday season is a great time for those who love video games. Exchanging gifts with good friends or finding new gifts placed under a Christmas tree always has new games in the mix. Those who grew up playing video games at a young age remember what it was like to wake up on Christmas morning and unwrap a new game that could be played throughout the morning.

As Netflix continues to build out its gaming strategy, which has recently included a new era of TV party games, it's going to let people build avatars - with the help of a new acquisition. The company is acquiring avatar company Ready Player Me and its "cross-game avatar tech" to let players "carry their identities and fandom across games," according to Ready Player Me CEO Timmu Tõke.Netflix "doesn't have an estimate of how long it will be until avatars launch" or which games will get them first, TechCrunch reports. Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed.Ready Player Me's team of about 20 people will join Netflix. The company's service …Read the full story at The Verge.

TAE Technologies’ fusion research reactor ‘Norm.’ | Photo: TAE Technologies Trump Media - yup, the parent company of Truth Social - is the latest entrant in the near century-long race to develop a nuclear fusion power plant. It announced a merger agreement with fusion company TAE Technologies on Thursday and a bold plan to break ground on the first utility-scale fusion plant some time in 2026.TAE doesn't plan to start generating power from its first plant until 2031, which is still an incredibly ambitious timeline. There will likely be a myriad of financial and regulatory issues to contend with along the way, of course. But the scientific and engineering challenges to overcome, which we'll dive into here, are also …Read the full story at The Verge.