Do you have a circle of friends who enjoy diving into any co-op titles that appear on Steam? I do, and we've been really going in on Peak recently. Before that, however, we were really tucking into R.E.P.O., which we grabbed when the museum update came around.

The Arrow Lake range wasn't Intel's finest moment. Things started going south when people discovered that Arrow Lake had an issue that caused it to deteriorate over time. The good news was that the hardware itself wasn't going bad; it was due to the microcode that defined how the system used the processor. So, Intel told us not to worry, as this could be fixed with a quick firmware update. Intel then provided us with the update, but it didn't work. And so, the legacy of Arrow Lake was Intel providing updates, and users hoping their chip wouldn't slowly erode itself away.

When a Waymo pulls up and parks in front of her home on a residential street in West Los Angeles, 10-year-old Morgan rushes to the window."The Waymo is home!" she says, calling to her parents, Lisa Delgin and Zach Tucker.It is by no means the first time a Waymo has come "home" to this particular spot. Last year, a Waymo robotaxi dropped Delgin and Tucker off after a New Year's Eve party and idled there for several minutes until it took off for the next ride. Since then, Waymos have been parking in that same spot, day after day, sometimes for minutes, sometimes for hours."It would always come back here, like a beacon," Delgin said. "Lik …Read the full story at The Verge.

Spies. Soldiers. Betrayals. Double-crosses. Triple-crosses. Giant Metal Tanks. PMCs. Armies. Some more betrayals. That's what Metal Gear Solid is all about. Today, it's almost folklore in gaming — a 38-year-old franchise that tells one of the greatest, most convoluted yet unforgettable stories the medium has ever seen.

It's no secret that I love exploring projects that utilize an e-ink display. Every time I see one, I just have to check it out and write about it. They're sleek, they look great, and they don't consume a lot of power—what's not to love?

Productivity software is essential in my workflow. Without something to help me stay on task, my mind will wander and find something else to focus on. It's easy enough to stay on task while online, but I've found myself away from home and reliable internet much more often lately (with a baby on the way, my wife and I go to a lot of prenatal appointments). To combat my natural tendency to get distracted, I started looking to build an offline productivity pack that would help me work, even with access to the web.

It's almost September, which means it's almost October, which means it's almost October 31st, which means it's time to get excited for Halloween. I will roll my eyes the second I see Christmas decorations on the shelves before December, but I will absolutely, definitely start getting ready for scary stuff and creepy creatures the second the Fall hits.

If you thought the PC-building landscape was full of cool components, just wait until you step into the home lab ecosystem. While you can keep the initial investment cost fairly low by going the SBC or mini-PC route, enthusiast home servers can involve numerous PCs – including those designed for enterprise workloads. You’ll also need a network stack, which typically involves switches, routers, WAPs, and other fun (and low-key intimidating) paraphernalia.

Your computer's motherboard is an engineering marvel, stuffed with interfaces, ports, sensors, and headers to connect many peripherals. The more money you spend, the more features you get, but you'll also end up with plenty of I/O that you might not use. I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but it's not really our fault, as motherboard manufacturers' scope creep to add what they see as value, and some of these headers are for niche use cases that often don't apply.

I only started taking NotebookLM seriously a while ago. I treated it more like a notetaking app that has an AI layer. But the more I used it and started feeding it my thoughts, it clicked. It’s not that NotebookLM makes me more productive now, it just helps me free up mental bandwidth. I don’t have to hold everything in my head or keep circling back to half-baked thoughts over and over.

We never got our hands on the MSI Claw A1M, but it's one of those PC gaming handhelds that didn't quite hit the mark when it was first released. Luckily, things have gotten a lot better with this device over time, thanks to new updates, and the heavily discounted price. Right now, you can score the MSI Claw A1M from Best Buy for just $390, which is $260 off its current retail price.

Things got a little scary with the new Windows 11 update. First, Microsoft stated that it was investigating reports that the newest update would render SSDs undetectable if attempting to move at least 50GB of data onto a drive with over 60% of its storage capacity used. This would potentially cause data loss or even cause the drive to brick itself. There was just one problem; while there were a handful of claims, it hadn't seen anyone else come forward with the same bug. So, it made a call asking people to tell the company if they've ever encountered the bug.