Samsung's smart monitor is perfect if you're looking to get something for work and entertainment. What makes this monitor different from others is that it runs software called Tizen OS. With Tizen OS, you gain access to a wealth of smart features, like your favorite streaming apps, along with Samsung's Gaming Hub.

Visual Studio Code has become the undisputed king of code editors, winning over developers with its speed, powerful features, and vast ecosystem of extensions. But what if you could have all of that without the baggage of Microsoft’s branding? This is where VSCodium comes in. It’s not a different IDE from scratch, but rather a community-driven VS Code. It offers the same user experience while putting privacy and freedom first.

Ever since Gamescom 2025, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has been the talk of the town. Whether because of its weird, "experimental" social co-op campaign, or because of the backlash Treyarch has been facing about whimsical skins for their operators, the one thing that can't be denied is that we're all looking forward to November when the game comes out.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 96, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, has your inbox been as busy as mine the past few days?, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Over the past two weeks, I've been testing this wildly customizable keyboard with an attachable trackball, reading the first Dungeon Crawler Carl and the second Dark Tower books, finally finishing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (with the help of an easy mode mod), marveling at the GeoGuessr World Championship grand final, and listening to Wombo's new album.This week, I also have for you Hol …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's not every day we see a huge discount on a game I haven't heard of before now. It's even rarer that the game has "overwhelmingly positive" reviews—that's a rating of 95% or higher—and yet somehow managed to slip my radar. And yet, here we are with Worldless, a game I've literally learned about five minutes ago because it's on the biggest sale Steam has ever seen. Well, I guess you learn something new every day.

It’s been over 14 years since I got my first NAS. It was a Synology, as you’d imagine for a first-time buyer, and I wanted to max out the storage alongside. As it turns out, hard drives are expensive, and student budgets aren’t particularly high. I found myself staring at the price tags of NAS-rated Western Digital Reds and silently shedding tears. Almost. Maybe. There’s got to be a more affordable way. That’s when I first came across the term ‘shucking’. Not oysters, but hard drives. The concept is extremely simple. Buy a cheap external hard drive, crack open the plastic case, rip out the hard drive inside, and slam it into your NAS. Gently. The practice seemed both thrifty and also every-so-slightly risky, as you’re letting go of your warranty. Would these drives stand the test of time in a closed-up enclosure running 24x7 for years to come? Was it worth the cost savings? Well, 14 years later, my NAS collection has grown five-fold, is packed full of shucked drives, and, guess what, those original drives are still running strong.

AMD's Ryzen Master Game Mode is designed to boost CPU performance and offer you better gaming performance by limiting the number of CPU cores active during a gaming session. While games do benefit from additional CPU cores, that benefit tends to taper off after about 12 cores. Most games are optimized for 6-8 core CPUs, so most gamers need just 6-8 CPU cores for their gaming rig.

Like many Obsidian users, I have spent countless hours trying to find the perfect system to manage my notes, projects, and ideas. While Obsidian’s core features are powerful, I have always felt there was a major gap when it came to structured data. The need to create databases, manage lists, and visualize information in a clean, organized way often forced me to rely on other applications.

Google's working on a lot of different AI tools in Google Labs, its experimental playground, but none have taken off as much as NotebookLM. And there’s one feature that deserves most of the credit for its viral success: Audio Overviews.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things at the intersection of environment and technology, follow Justine Calma. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.How it startedSome stories that I've worked on as an environmental journalist still haunt me. One of the first to get under my skin happened to be about forever chemicals. Since the 1940s, forever chemicals have been commonly used by manufacturers as a way to make things resistant to water, stains, and heat. Think food packaging, nonstick pans, water-repellan …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's bad news for people who aren't a fan of the direction Microsoft is going with Outlook. One of its popular mobile variants, Outlook Lite, garnered significant attention and downloads, becoming a cornerstone for many people's workflows. However, it seems like it wasn't that crucial for Microsoft to keep, as it has announced that Outlook Lite is getting the chop, only three years after it came out. And while the company never stated why it's doing this, I have a sneaking suspicion you and I both know why.

When you want to track your health, you'd usually have to shell out for a wearable that you have to have on you for it to work. However, what if someone could read your heart rate using wireless technology? It sounds like something out of science fiction, but a team of researchers believes it's not as far-fetched as you may believe. They've published a paper claiming that, not only can Wi-Fi signals help detect heart rates with extremely good accuracy, but you can achieve these results with a super-cheap Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi chip.