The Asus Vivobook 14 is one of those laptops that often flies under the radar because of its specifications and its usual retail price. This is not a $530 laptop, and you should never buy it for that price because there are plenty of better options. However, when this laptop goes on sale, that's when things become a little more interesting, because it can be a great option for someone that's not looking to spend a lot of money. We've seen this model drop in price before, but this is the best price we've seen for this model. Best Buy's early Black Friday promotion knocks it down to just $270, making it hard to ignore.

If you do any type of creative work, you’ve probably had at least one Adobe subscription, or thought about getting one. I used to shuffle through pretty much every Adobe plan – All Apps, Photography, and the individual apps. Most people end up in this predicament because we usually need at least one app for images, another for videos, and so on. I ended up canceling all my subscriptions this year because of this subscription fatigue.

Security and privacy are increasingly large concerns for a lot of people, and data breaches and leaks have weakened consumer trust in a lot of companies. That, combined with rising costs, have made a lot of cloud services unappealing to people, and for some of us, that may include a password manager. There are plenty of subscription-based (and some free) password managers that offer to keep your passwords safe and make them available to you on all your devices, but that investment can sometimes feel like a little much.

Single-board computers are an affordable and convenient means to kick off a DIY project. As popular Raspberry Pi models get, they work best as full-fledged computers apart from assisting with some DIY functionalities. For specific tasks, the ESP32 can prove to be a suitable tool.

There was a time I was a staunch Windows user, particularly when Windows XP was still the ruling Microsoft operating system. That was some time ago, and now I would rather buy a Mac and boot up macOS than install Windows on my primary system. That's simply because I don't get on with Windows 11 as it stands today and Microsoft as a company. I don't like being forced to log into a Microsoft account to install an OS. I don't like being bombarded with advertisements during boot up, and I sure don't like having most control taken away from me for various parts of the software. It's not a bad OS, mind you, it's just not for me anymore, and that's perfectly fine. I've been using Linux for years now and won't be returning anytime soon.

People love to hop online for matches of Call of Duty multiplayer, especially when the servers are filled with players to squad up with. With Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 coming out, the online servers are going to be bustling with people that are ready to drop in and start racking up killstreaks. But not every match of Call of Duty multiplayer can end up being a fun time, regardless of what platform you're on. There are moments that can be a real dampener on the excitement of playing online with others, especially when they're the result of something out of our control. As action-packed as Call of Duty multiplayer can be, it can also lead to endless amounts of frustration for even the most patient of gamers.

My home lab has a problem, and it's me. If I create documentation of the experiments I've been doing, it invariably ends up as a Notepad file in the Dropbox folder I use for home lab things. While at least it's saved, it's not very searchable for future use. Other files are saved to GitHub, some are backed up from the folders I use for Docker, and it's all a glorious mess.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.I spent yesterday at Eric Newcomer's Cerebral Valley conference in San Francisco, which is now in its third year. I've attended this event for three years in a row because Eric does a great job curating the speakers and the audience, and the conversations are more substantive than a typical industry event.This year was no exception; however, I found the most interesting part of the day to be when the results of an anonymous audience survey were shared onstage. The more than 300 attendees who part …Read the full story at The Verge.

It feels like Wi-Fi 7 connectivity is only starting to get a foothold in the devices we use daily. You might not have noticed either, as the majority of devices available use fewer antennas, limiting their maximum throughput. But the next major version, Wi-Fi 8(IEEE 802.11bn), has been in development since 2021, and it's not far from appearing in consumer devices.

It's always a special year when two of the biggest FPS franchises in gaming go head-to-head. Battlefield and Call of Duty have been competing against each other for as long as I can remember having a gaming platform, and historically, one of those names has always come out on top. This year, though, things are looking... different.

The definition of "high-refresh-rate displays" is a dynamic one. For many of you, anything below 240Hz might not qualify, while for others, a 144Hz display will still be a fast and smooth display. Whatever the case, one thing is common between these two camps: most people never max out their high-refresh-rate monitor. You might be playing at 80 FPS on your 144Hz monitor or enjoying 100–150 FPS on your 240 or 360Hz display, but the true potential of your fancy display remains untapped, except in esports and indie titles, or through the use of flawed tricks like frame generation.

They say once a coder, always a coder. After switching to tech blogging, I don't code full-time now, but there's always a coder in me who finds fun in automating stuff with scripting. Nowadays, major productivity apps seem to demand a monthly payment. This "subscription creep" is annoying, but there’s a better way. I realized that many of these paid features are simple automation tasks in disguise. I built a few custom Python scripts that perfectly handle everything I need.