When I first decided to give Windows 11 virtual desktops a try, I thought I would keep using them. I would use one for work and another for personal projects. It felt like one of those features I couldn’t live without. But it wasn’t long before I started finding reasons to stop using it.

Ed Murray has been in the solar business long enough to remember the bloodbath of 1985. That's when President Ronald Reagan ended Jimmy Carter-era solar tax credits meant to decrease US reliance on fossil fuels following the 1970s oil crisis."It was a sad time," says Murray, who is president of the trade group California Solar & Storage Association. Membership to the organization (which hadn't yet added "storage" to its name) fell from 670 companies to just 37 "almost overnight," Murray says, as hundreds of businesses went under without the tax credit. "I hope that that doesn't happen to us again." (Then-California Gov. George Deukmejian a …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Windows versus Linux debate usually centers around performance, security, or, more often than not, ideology. Storage as a topic rarely gets the same kind of attention, and even when it does, it rarely has anything to do with the actual usability of the storage inside your rig.

PC gaming has never been more popular, but at the same time, it's also never been harder to enter as a complete newcomer. A large part of the recent difficulty is due to the recent DRAM shortage, which is said to be caused by manufacturers reallocating their supply towards more lucrative HBM memory for AI.

Over the past few years, smart TV operating systems have come a long way, whether it's Samsung's Tizen, LG's WebOS, or in my case, my Hisense U8H's Google TV-powered OS, most mid-range-to-high-end modern televisions feature silky smooth user interfaces and more than enough power to easily run any modern streaming app.

Most big blockbuster movies that are put into theaters often have video games that tie into their releases. As is the case with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was directed by James Cameron and considered one of the greatest action movies ever made. I still remember the tons of games that were released around the movie, with a few action games that were hit or miss in quality. The best games based on the film were the arcade shooters that rendered the infamous T-800 in great detail. However, it's not often I see a new 2D game based on the legendary movie from over 33 years ago that looks superb.

Adobe apps are powerful, but they’re also heavy and expensive. That’s why I dropped all my subscriptions this year and switched to free and open-source options. Most people don’t really need to pay for the Creative Cloud given how many viable alternatives there are. You just need tools that let you experiment freely, and that’s where non-destructive editing comes in.

A motherboard typically has four or more Serial AT Attachment (SATA) bus ports. These are found on the bottom right-hand side of the printed circuit board (PCB) and can be used to connect SATA hard drives and SSDs to your system. What isn't so great about these ports is the limited number available, especially when working with larger game collections, big data, video editing, network-attached storage (NAS), and home lab deployments. You'll quickly find the limited number of SATA ports troublesome.

Flag illustration representing the European Union The Office of the US Trade Representative posted on X Tuesday, claiming that US service providers have been hit by "a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives" from the EU. Earlier this month, X was fined $140 million under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), in addition to new laws, fines, and investigations that have affected US tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta over the past few years.The unsigned post specifically named several European tech companies: Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, DHL, Mistral, Publicis, SAP, Siemens, and Spotify. It claimed that if the "discr …Read the full story at The Verge.

The PC building hobby is in shambles right now, with component pricing going sky-high. That puts OEM and SI PC builders in a good position, as they can get lower component prices via volume orders, and in some cases, it's actually better value to buy a prebuilt than go DIY.

Lenovo makes great laptops, but every so often a model slips through the cracks, and that's what we have here. The Yoga Pro 9i (2025) no longer offers a mini-LED option, but you can choose between a good OLED and a better Tandem OLED, so that's a worthy change.

X Corp. is suing Operation Bluebird, a recently-announced startup that aims to reclaim the Twitter brand for a new social network. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Elon Musk-owned company alleges Operation Bluebird is "brazenly attempting to steal" Twitter's trademarks, claiming "Twitter never left and continues to be exclusively owned by X Corp."Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition asking the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel X Corp.'s ownership of the "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks. It alleged X Corp. "legally abandoned its rights" to Twitter's brand with "no intention to resume use." At the same time, Operat …Read the full story at The Verge.