Every so often, people love a feature from one of Office's apps so much that Microsoft migrates it across the suite. Sometimes they're ways to get more work done, sometimes they leverage Copilot in some way, and sometimes they just let you doodle on stuff. Well, Microsoft is adding a new feature for those who fit in the latter camp, as OneNote's drawing tools are making their way over to other apps, too.

If you need internet where you normally can't get a connection, Starlink is going to be a prime solution. Not only is the hardware easy to set up, but it's also relatively affordable as well. The major hurdle for many is going to be the cost of the hardware, which you have to pay upfront. Luckily, this deal from Best Buy knocks 50% off, dropping the Standard Kit down to just $175. It's the best price we've seen on this model to date, so get it before the deal's gone.

The Xbox Game Pass has always been a somewhat strange entity in the gaming market. It's amazing for gamers; for a monthly fee, they can tuck into as many games in the library as they want with no limits on gameplay time. And if they're willing to use Xbox Cloud Gaming, they don't even need to care about storage space, either.

When it comes to self-hosting, many people start out with media servers and self-hosted cloud storage for files, documents, and photos. It's what makes tools like Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and Immich so popular. But there are actually plenty of other types of software you can host on your own server.

Epic Games has announced that it’s bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s app marketplaces are anticompetitive. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on X that Fortnite will be made available on iPhones via the Epic Games Store “at a date to be determined,” while the company navigates the complexities of Australia’s antitrust ruling.Epic sued Google in Australia in March 2021, after suing Apple in November 2020. A single court is handling both cases in parallel, even though they weren’t filed at the same time. On Tuesday, federal judge Jonathan Beach found that Apple and Google misused their app marketplace dominance and in-app purchase commission fees of up to 30 percent to reduce competition, the Australian Financial Review reports. However, Beach rejected Epic’s claims that the tech giants had broken consumer law or engaged in “unconscionable conduct” — meaning particularly harsh, unfair, or oppressive behavior that goes against societal norms. We are still awaiting further details from Beach’s final judgment, which is more than 2,000 pages long and won’t be released publicly.The Epic Games Store and Fortnite will come to iOS in Australia! An Australian court just found that Apple and Google abuse their control over app distribution and in-app payments to limit competition. There are 2,000+ pages of findings that we’ll need to dig into to fully…— Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) August 12, 2025“We welcome the court’s rejection of Epic’s demands that we distribute app stores from within the Google Play store, and Epic’s attacks on other critical security protections that users rely on,” Google spokesperson Dan Jackson said in a statement to The Verge. “However, we disagree with the court’s characterization of our billing policies and practices, as well as its findings regarding some of our historical partnerships, which were all shaped in a fiercely competitive mobile landscape on behalf of users and developers,” Jackson said. “We will review the full decision when we receive it and assess our next steps.”In a statement to Australia’s ABC News, an unnamed Apple spokesperson said that the company welcomes the court’s rejection of some of Epic’s claims, but that it disagrees with other aspects of the ruling. “Apple faces fierce competition in every market where we operate,” the spokesperson said. “We continuously invest and innovate to make the App Store the safest place for users to get apps and a great business opportunity for developers in Australia and around the world.”Epic originally sued Apple and Google in the United States on August 13th, 2020, in two separate cases which went before two separate judges, with dramatically different results in each case. Epic largely lost its fight against Apple after attempting to take the fight all the way to the US Supreme Court, but Apple may lose a large degree of control over its App Store anyhow because it failed to comply with the district court’s order.After removing Fortnite from the App Store in 2020 amid its feud with Epic, Apple later brought the game back to its iPhone app marketplace in May. Fortnite also returned to iPhones in the EU last year, but only via the Epic Games Store for iOS.Meanwhile in the US version of the Google trial, Epic has continually won: in late 2023, a jury unanimously decided that Google turned its Play Store and Play Billing system into an illegal monopoly, and a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just affirmed that decision at the end of July.That decision could blow up Google’s control over its app store within weeks or months, unless Google gets the Ninth Circuit to grant a stay while it appeals to the US Supreme Court or grants a full en banc review of the three-judge panel’s decision. Google is arguing that the Apple decision should be relevant to the Google decision, but so far US courts disagree.

If you've ever upgraded your laptop or desktop, there's a pretty good chance you have some old drives lying around. The good news is that those drives don't have to go to waste and can be repurposed for use in other devices or as portable storage. We love the latter option, because popping an SSD into an enclosure leads to having a thumb drive that's completely overkill.

Among all the genres that leave every single gamer in the world spoiled for choice, cyberpunk remains one of the most popular ones, and rightly so. Its themes of societal divide, environmental degradation, futuristic technology continuing its rampant progress like a juggernaut while society frays at the edges have always allured players, and why wouldn't they?

As a long-time user of the Alienware AW3423DW, one of the first OLED gaming monitors to hit the market in 2022, I was genuinely excited when the company launched its successor, the AW3425DW. The main difference between the two is that the newer model has a 240Hz refresh rate, whereas the older one was limited to 175Hz. That alone was enough to convince me to upgrade since I enjoy playing competitive games at high refresh rates.

Most of us use multiple cloud storage services. Between Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, NextCloud, Amazon B2, and even FTP and WebDAV, there are numerous options available, and I utilize most of them for various purposes. But as it stands, unless you install apps for each of these services, or configure them in dedicated apps, the only way you can access files in Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive is by navigating to individual websites. Suffice it to say that there's a lot of friction involved, and the process is extremely cumbersome.

I pulled the plug on my ISP-supplied all-in-one router earlier this year, replacing it with an OPNsense firewall and router running on the Ugreen DXP4800 Plus NAS. While it was certainly a network overhaul with a deep learning curve, the benefits were immediately apparent. It's faster (from a network management point of view), more reliable, and gives me far more control when it comes to my home network.

I hear you — 50 degrees Fahrenheit sounds like a lot. And it is, but it's a difference in PC temperatures that doesn't seem like that much. 50 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 10 degrees Celsius, which might not seem like a massive temperature drop when you're looking at it in HWInfo or whatever monitoring program you use. But, a few simple tweaks can drop your PC temperature by that much.

There's nothing quite as awe-inspiring and terrifying as an eldritch formula in Excel. You're not sure what it does, and you're not sure how it works; all you know is that when you punch a number in, you get a number out, and you just have to sort of trust the system that it's doing everything correctly. This goes double if you were the one who made it.