It's really hard to pick out a Christmas present for someone into SBCs. Whatever you pick, they either don't need it, can't use it, already have it, or, if you're really lucky, you get something they want.

I’ve been using Google Docs since I was in school. It’s mostly been for my own personal stuff - notes, projects, essays, assignments, lists - but also hunting down public docs for research purposes. Docs is one of the top document apps out there because of how easy and intuitive the interface is, plus it syncs with the rest of your Drive automatically. But therein also lies the problem - everything lives in the cloud. And the more I learn about data privacy, the more uneasy I feel about that.

Like most people, I stuck to the resource-hogging familiarity of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge and believed there was no true alternative that could simplify my digital workflow. That was until I discovered Comet. Created by Perplexity, Comet is the new AI-native browser that redesigns how we interact with the web.

On December 8, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 will be widely released on PS5. It's already available on the platform through early access, marking the first time the long-running flight simulation game series has ever been available on a PlayStation console. This port is part of a wider initiative from Xbox Game Studios in recent years to bring its previously exclusive games to other platforms. This past week, I hopped on a call with Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann to discuss the PS5 port.

It was only in June that Jeremy Carrasco uploaded his first videos to TikTok and Instagram. In that short time, he's amassed over 300,000 followers on each platform. No, it's not exactly Charli D'Amelio numbers, but that does make him one of the biggest names in AI literacy on social media. Jeremy told The Verge that he always wanted to try his hand at being a YouTuber. Instead, he found himself behind the camera, working as a producer and director on multicamera livestreams. But he finally decided to take the plunge after realizing that most of the dialogue around generative AI was being driven by the tech companies. "We need other people …Read the full story at The Verge.

PC users might differ on which components are still relevant and which ones are effectively obsolete. After all, it's stupid to throw away your old Gen3 NVMe SSD or non-modular PSU just because they've been replaced by far better models. However, when you're in the market for new components, there are some specs you shouldn't consider anymore, even if you're building a budget PC. From outdated displays to insufficient storage and memory, here are six PC specs that shouldn't feature on your new PC in 2026.

I spent half a decade pouring my life into Notion. From project management to daily journaling, every piece of information lived within its block-based architecture. Yet, despite its flexibility, I began to feel the friction: data felt isolated on Notion’s servers, performance lagged, and my knowledge base was structured more like a filing cabinet than a connected brain.

You know, third-party modifications for Windows 11 have been looking pretty good right about now. The operating system has had its fair share of weird issues over the past few weeks, including the File Explorer dark mode flashbanging people without warning. And while I'll always be the first to recommend that people migrate to the one OS that sends dread down every Windows user's spine, some people don't have the choice. So, the next best thing is to tweak Windows 11 to behave.

If you want your PC ready to go as soon as you come back to use it, you probably put it to sleep rather than shutting it down. Sometimes, though, putting your computer to sleep doesn't work like you want it to. This usually means going to sleep or waking up from sleep when you didn't want it to. The behavior is usually caused by Windows tasks, drivers, or devices that can prevent (or wake your PC up from) sleep.

Horses has become the current face of the fight against video game censorship and what gets to be art. After getting banned from Steam and the Epic Game Store, the narrative horror game has become a bestseller on GOG.com, and has brought gamers of all stripes together in support of it. But as a game, Horses doesn't deserve all this - neither its bans nor, after playing it myself, all the glowing praise.Horses is a collaboration between indie studio Santa Ragione and Italian filmmaker Andrea Lucco Bolera. Bolera wrote the game and acted in and directed the FMV cutscenes that are interspersed throughout, while the developers at Santa Ragione …Read the full story at The Verge.

Everyone had a good laugh at HBO Max this week when the new 4K Mad Men remaster debuted with a number of glaring errors that should have been caught before the show was uploaded to the streamer's servers. Episodes went live with incorrect titles, and in one instance you could still see members of the show's production crew who shouldn't have been visible on-camera. The mistakes were reportedly the result of Lionsgate Television - Mad Men's original production company - sending over the incorrect set of exported files.It is wild to think that no one at HBO noticed that the remastered "Red in the Face" episode still included a clear shot of …Read the full story at The Verge.

Home servers run quietly in the background, yet they carry a surprising amount of responsibility for media streaming, file serving, automation, backups, and self-hosting. The hardware you choose determines how smooth this experience feels over months or even years of continuous uptime.