This Baseus 12-in-1 docking station adds ports to your laptop, expanding its capabilities. It's a must-have accessory if you rely on your laptop for work and personal use. The good news is that it doesn't cost as much as you would think, with Amazon dropping the price down to just $42. The 19% discount isn't huge, but it is the best price we've seen on this product.

Razer’s DeathStalker V2 Pro is discounted in both black and white. | Image: The Verge Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. This keyboard is built for competitive gaming, with a low latency 2.4GHz wireless connection, and low-profile linear optical switches for faster activations that require a lighter touch than regular mechanical switches. The TKL layout cuts the numpad, but affords you more desk space for your mouse.Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKLWhere to Buy: $219.99 $129.99 at WootRazer claims the battery will last up to 200 hours with the RGB lighting off, or up to 50 hours with the lights at half brightness. If you’re interested in staying wired, or using the keyboard wirelessly with other devices, it has both USB-C and Bluetooth connectivity. You can also enable Snap Tap (Razer’s term for Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions, or SOCD), which lets you quickly swap between two keys for strafing in first person shooters, for example, although it’s worth nothing that Valve has banned the tech in Counter-Strike 2.Other deals to considerThe remastered version of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt just released, and a number of retailers are celebrating with discounts. While the list price is $49.99, PC gamers can grab the game for $24.99 at Steam, GOG, and Epic Games, with discounts available for the Xbox and PlayStation versions as well. The remastered version includes visual upgrades, tweaks to progression and skills, and both DLC entries: Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.Best Buy has the third-generation Amazon Fire TV Cube discounted to $89.99, just over half off its usual price of $199.99. This square streamer supports 4K video with Dolby Vision and HDR, Dolby Atmos audio, and hands-free Alexa controls. With a processor that Amazon claims is twice as powerful as the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, it’s also a great option for Xbox Cloud Gaming.Costco members can grab the Fellow Stagg EKG electric kettle for $99.99, a $30 discount from the usual price. I use this gooseneck kettle for my morning espresso, and I’m constantly impressed by its excellent temperature control and quick heating, and it adds a stylish touch to my coffee station.

On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT." More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event venue at San Francisco's Fort Mason, including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, Service Employees International Union, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council. A large orange sign read "Drop the ICE contract." Multiple people dressed in cardboard robot costumes waved cardbo …Read the full story at The Verge.

When it comes to self-hosting your own media, Plex is undoubtedly the household name, and rightly so. It may be a paid commercial service, but it's also the easiest to operate, and the one with the least friction involved.

When Nvidia unveiled DLSS 5 to the world at GTC in March 2026, it pitched it as its most significant graphics breakthrough since real-time ray tracing. Much of the headlines were dominated by the uncanny image previews and "DLSS 5 ON" memes, but that opening line said more about Nvidia's plans for the technology than anything it has talked about since. Ray tracing launched as a premium feature that came with a steep performance cost, had sparse adoption at launch, and if you had a GTX 1080 Ti, you couldn't run it properly because it didn't have the RT cores to do so.

VLC is perhaps the only media player I've used consistently ever since Windows Media Player stopped being the one-stop video destination on my PC. Most of you reading this are probably in the same boat. VLC even has advanced tricks up its sleeve that most users never get around to. There's a reason it's still the most popular media player on Windows, and PCs in general.

I have two internet connections for my homelab, but neither gives me a simple path for incoming traffic. Both are behind CGNAT, which makes traditional hole-punching on my router difficult. For my homelab, where I have many apps that need public access, my redundant internet setup doesn't help at all. After running back and forth looking for a solution, I finally settled on Pangolin, and here's what changed.

Microsoft is officially announcing its new Xbox Mythic Achievements today, and they're already available for Xbox Insiders to test. Mythic Achievements work a lot like Sony's PlayStation Platinum trophies and are unlocked once you've earned every original achievement for a game."Mythic Achievements have already been added to eligible games you completed in the past, including Xbox 360 titles," says the Xbox team. "The next time you visit your profile, you may discover that some of your favorite games have already reached Mythic status."Xbox profiles will soon include a new gaming tab that lets you track Gamerscore milestones and Mythic A …Read the full story at The Verge.

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a nonprofit studying AIs' capabilities and motivations, collected and launched the interviews on frominside.ai. Several of the researchers joined Irving in warning about the possibility AI could drive humans extinct. Neel Nanda, a Google DeepMind research scientist, said there's "at least a 10 percent chance that it causes human e …Read the full story at The Verge.

Like Muse, OpenAI’s Dots are represented by cute, customizable avatars. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" across connected apps in the background while learning your preferences over time.The company's capable GPT-6 Astra model powers Dots, which use their own cloud computer to access a web browser and more than 4,000 supported apps. You can interact with a Dot through a text-message-like interface that's similar to the one offered by Muse, as well as hop on a voice call with it from ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile. Dots ca …Read the full story at The Verge.

Procrastination is one of the problems that the productivity world seems to keep throwing software at, promising to fix your life for good. To-do apps and planners have been at this for years, and now AI assistants are in on it too, with many happy to schedule your entire week for you. You might have already come across one or two tools that genuinely helped manage your time and track your productivity - most of these tools have something good to offer, and there's something out there for everyone.

When I got my first ESP32, tutorials were the first thing I consulted, and they worked well for the most part. If I wanted to build a Bluetooth proxy, I’d look into official and community posts on how to do so. Likewise, I’d check on common projects I could build with these tiny microcontrollers, and pick up the sensor, circuitry, and robotics modules accordingly. Although this methodical approach helped me build cool smart home gizmos, I didn’t really learn anything about the ESP32 during the projects.