There's never a shortage of weird tech debuting at CES every year. A new company called Tomorrow Doesn't Matter, or TDM, announced a peculiar pair of headphones at the show earlier this month with a feature no one has tried before. The Neo headphones can be rolled up like a hedgehog which turns them into a compact Bluetooth speaker for those times when you want to share a real banger with those around you. They were expected to launch through a Kickstarter slated for this month, but TDM now says the crowdfunding campaign will officially open on February 10th, 2026.Pricing for the Neo is set to be $249 when they eventually launch in July 20 …Read the full story at The Verge.

While I'm glad that I got started self-hosting using Docker Desktop, there are times I wish that the software were more intuitive. I've considered Docker container management platforms like Portainer, but I have always been a bit intimidated by the tools since I'm still learning a lot about self-hosting.

Microsoft has had some real issues getting people onto Windows 11. Its older brother, Windows 10, held onto its userbase for as long as it possibly could, and recently lost its first-place spot to Windows 11. It's impossible to tell for sure what caused this—it could be people warming to Windows 11, people leaving Windows 10 as it reached the end of non-security support, or a helping of both—but the truth is, Windows 11 is now king.

Vivaldi is already one of the most powerful and versatile browsers you can get, but today, the team has delivered another major update that takes things to another level. Vivaldi has now reached version 7.8, and it comes with big improvements that take multitasking even further.

Thunderbolt 5 fixes many of the issues that held back last-gen Thunderbolt eGPUs. The new interface offers better stability and, most importantly, a higher bandwidth rating, with the bidirectional rating much higher than PCIe 4.0x4 OCuLink. However, bandwidth figures alone don't tell the whole story.

You know, I love how game demos have come back with a vengeance. There was a time between now and when I got PlayStation 2 demo disks free with a magazine, where the bite-sized versions of games seemingly dried up. However, with game devs rediscovering the power of demos (especially during Steam Next Fests), we're seeing the appetiser-sized games back on the menu, and I couldn't be happier.

For years, I treated my network-attached storage (NAS) exactly as the name implies: as a simple box of hard drives attached to my network. As long as it held my files without failing, I didn’t think much beyond the drive capacity.

SSDs and GPUs are some of the most important parts of every single PC out there, and yet, they can also become some of the most confusing, thanks to their ever-evolving dynamics and generations. Marketing and spec-splitting make PCIe generations sound worlds apart, when they really aren't. It's been nearly five years since PCIe 5.0 entered the mainstream conversation, and yet the truth remains refreshingly boring: PCIe 3.0 — a 16-year-old standard — is still more than enough for around 90% of users today, regardless of use case. That includes gaming, general productivity, and even light creative work.

You may not have realized, but Windows 10 and 11 have a ton of ads built into them. Microsoft doesn't formally classify them as ads; instead, it labels them as suggestions, recommendations, tips, and offers. Though they serve the same purpose: to draw attention to services and features such as Microsoft Store apps, OneDrive cloud services, and Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Reference cards from Nvidia and AMD are hard to come by, which is why most people buy AIB variants from brands like Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Zotac, Galax, Innno3D, PNY, Sapphire, XFX, and others. Many of these aftermarket graphics cards sport better thermals, lower noise levels, and slightly higher performance compared to reference editions. Some AIB features are worth paying extra for, but many of them are just there to justify the overpriced variants. These features don't add meaningful performance, and often come in the way of optimal operation. If you're still paying a premium for these useless features, it's high time you reconsidered.

Take a Message and next-gen Call Screen features are being disabled on Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 devices. Google is disabling some Phone app features on older Pixel devices after acknowledging a bug that inadvertently leaked audio to callers. The issue has specifically been linked to the Take a Message feature released last year, which automatically answers and transcribes voicemails when you miss a call, with a handful of Pixel 4 and 5 owners reporting that their microphones were activating when callers were leaving messages."We've investigated this issue, which we've confirmed affects a very small subset of Pixel 4 and 5 devices under very specific and rare circumstances," said Google community manager Siri Tejaswini on a support page. "Out …Read the full story at The Verge.

Linux isn't known for gaming, but that's slowly changing thanks to SteamOS and its Proton translation layer. But even with these recent improvements, game support isn't even close to what Windows 11 offers. That said, now that Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming platform is officially available on Linux in beta, some of those key game compatibility gaps are getting filled with the help of the cloud.