It feels terrible to have a physical library of games for an old console that never received backward compatibility support. To revisit your faves, you need to keep your generations-old hardware plugged in, and every time you push the power button, you worry that it may be the last time before the console finally gives up the ghost.

The Apple AirPods Max 2 are some of the best headphones you can buy. Not only are you getting fantastic audio, but the ANC is also top-tier as well. Don't shy away just because this is an Apple device, it's compatible with Android and other products that support Bluetooth.

I use Claude every day for research, projects, and even language learning. But there was one thing I wasn’t using it for: having fun. I didn’t realize I could connect my Spotify account to Claude, so it could help me put together better playlists than the ones I had. I was surprised to find I could do more than I expected, such as creating better playlists, remembering songs from commercials, and setting a starting point I could keep working on from my phone when I had to leave my desk. It made me realize that I was building my playlists the hard way.

Earlier this year, after a tumultuous period serving as the former second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino went back to what he is perhaps known best for: video podcasting. After Bongino exited the role in January, he began promotion for the return of his podcast, The Dan Bongino Show. He bought out a billboard in Times Square in New York; he dropped teaser videos for his first new episode in months. Bongino also deployed a more experimental promotional tactic, aimed at getting portions of his show in front of a wider audience. For this, he used clippers.Clippers are largely anonymous social media accounts whose sole purpose is to rack …Read the full story at The Verge.

PLA has a reputation for being the easy filament, and most of the time, that reputation is well earned. It prints at modest temperatures, sticks well to common build plates, and doesn't demand the same environmental control as ABS or nylon. That makes it the default recommendation for beginners, schools, hobbyists, and anyone who wants fewer variables in the way. But PLA’s friendly reputation can make its weaknesses feel more surprising when a print suddenly starts lifting, splitting, or failing for reasons that don’t look obvious at first.

You might think it's crazy, but I personally used the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 as my main desktop for 3 years for light gaming, coding, and recently, AI, so I certainly have a unique perspective on what the single-board computer is capable of. I can play most of my games on it, and I've coded some semi-complex applications, all on a device that costs about as much as a nice series of books.

You can't go wrong with this monitor if you need one for entertainment. You get an impressive WOLED panel that's big, features beautiful colors, deep black levels, and also delivers plenty of performance. While it's usually priced at $1,600, it can now be had for far less, thanks to a steep 52% discount from Amazon that drops it down to just $773. It's still pricey, but the discount is huge, making it a great time to pick one up.

Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage are now discovering that Chrome is installing a 4GB weights.bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI features are enabled.The weights.bin file in question is connected to Google's Gemini Nano AI model, which powers Chrome AI tools like scam detection, writing assistance, autofill, and suggestion features. As the Gemini Nano model is designed to run lo …Read the full story at The Verge.

If you've been lucky enough to go through a PC upgrade or two in the last few years, there's a good chance you have had a GPU leftover. It's probably sitting in an anti-static bag in a drawer somewhere, totally dormant, or you've been meaning to put it up on a pre-owned marketplace but just haven't. While it might not be adept at running the newest titles, old gaming GPUs have a ton of potential in a home server build, where they can excel at local media transcoding, GPU passthrough for VMs, and local AI.

Microsoft's LinkedIn CEO, Ryan Roslansky, took on an expanded role at the company as head of Office last year, and he's now getting more responsibilities as part of the latest leadership reshuffle inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that the Microsoft Teams organization is moving to report to Roslansky, who will now lead a new Work Experiences Group at Microsoft.The changes are part of a broader reshuffle triggered by Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of Microsoft's experiences and devices group, retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years. Jha was responsible for the teams behind Windows, Office, Copilot, and Microsoft 365, and Micr …Read the full story at The Verge.

PC component prices are at an all-time high right now, making it harder to build a new PC. Of course, if you're just looking to build something cheap or want to use some spare parts you have lying around, this AMD Ryzen 5 5500 chip is just the thing.

Running large language models on local hardware not only lets you avoid paying monthly subscriptions to cloud providers, but also prevents large corporations from gaining access to your private data. But unless you’re willing to spend thousands of dollars on a top-of-the-line graphics card, you’re bound to run out of VRAM when attempting to run large language models with over 15B parameters. Sure, 7B and 9B models can get the job done when it comes to productivity tasks, but sub-10B LLMs (or even their sub-20B counterparts, for that matter) aren’t the best for hardcore coding workloads or tasks involving precise output.