Running a language model on your phone used to feel like a novelty, and now there's a whole aisle of apps that actually make it practical. Reading the store listings, you'd struggle to tell any of them apart though - they all look identical and you don't actually know how each one holds up after you've spent some time with it.

My Windows PC has a habit of slowing down at the worst possible time. A browser starts taking longer to respond, an app suddenly freezes, or everything feels slightly sluggish for no obvious reason. I've spent enough time dealing with these little slowdowns to know that restarting isn't always the answer.

There are many Jellyfin apps available for a wide range of devices, including computers, smart TVs, and streaming devices. There are also several options for your Android phone. For instance, Findroid made me forget about using Plex on my Pixel. But I found another app with so many options I can't stop having fun tweaking them.

I am a fan of VS Code for many reasons, but probably the biggest one is remote SSH. I remember when I used it for the first time I called it a miracle in modern software development. And why wouldn’t you I? With this feature, you can use VS Code on your system while the actual app runs somewhere far away on a remote machine inside a data center. However, you don’t need a remote machine tucked in a data center to be able to SSH. In fact, I recently tried turning my old Windows laptop into a remote coding terminal using this feature, and it worked just fine.

The Xiaomi 18 Fold and its Xring O3 chip. China is getting first crack at a British technology that might change how mobile games are made and played. Today, the Xiaomi 18 Fold launches in mainland China with an Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processor inside its custom Xring O3 chip. What's so special about that? After five years of development, Arm now has an AI gaming graphics accelerator inside its GPU.By following Nvidia's playbook, Arm-powered phones are about to have PC-like technologies to make games run faster, at higher resolution, with advanced lighting techniques, all without using more power than they do today. The jagged edges you see in the mobile versions of popular …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's no secret that memory prices will take years to return to their pre-2026 levels, if at all. The unprecedented global demand has pushed RAM prices to insane levels, and the end consumer is bearing the brunt of it. SSDs and GPUs have also suffered significant price hikes, and if that wasn't enough, consumers now have to adapt to modular memory disappearing completely.

When shopping for an electric vehicle, affordability is becoming a more common trait. But affordable and energy efficient is truly a rare breed. Often you have to sacrifice one for the other. Want something affordable? Great, here's a range loser. Want something that goes the distance? Be ready to pay the price. Surprisingly, here comes Audi to split the difference. The German automaker's new A2 E-tron compact crossover is inexpensive, starting at just £32,200 (about $45,000). And it absolutely impresses with an ultra low drag coefficient and a range of battery and drivetrain options that, when configured correctly, can produce a range of …Read the full story at The Verge.

Flagship gaming handhelds released in 2026 bring some major improvements to the table. Beyond the mainstream options, devices like the OneXPlayer Apex, GPD Win 5, and Ayaneo Next 2 now deliver discrete GPU-level performance in a portable handheld. However, none of them come with an attractive price tag, and even the next-gen refresh for the more mainstream models isn't exactly affordable.

A little while ago, Jon Seager, the vice president of Engineering at Canonical, made a strange comment. He said that the operating system with the biggest adoption rate was Windows, and that he wouldn't be surprised if Ubuntu on Windows became the most popular way to use the operating system.

Over the past year, we've seen countries around the world ease themselves off Microsoft's software. Back in April, we saw France ditch Windows for Linux, and around a month ago, we heard reports that China was moving forward with its own homegrown Linux distros. Now, Switzerland has started a trial that will see 3,000 government computers use open-source solutions alongside Microsoft 365 to see if it's feasible to jump ship.

Self-hosting your own services for use at home and abroad can be incredibly rewarding at the best of times, and moving services from being a monthly subscription to a home maintenance task is often a good trade-off. With that said, not all services have the same kind of payoff, and some are even detrimental to your setup when chosen over the normal cloud option. These 5 services are things that I've self-hosted with varying degrees of success, and should probably be avoided unless you really know what you're getting yourself into.

If you live a wireless life, then you're always at the mercy of your device's batteries; it's a key thing you should keep in mind before making the cordless jump. Keeping tabs on all of them can be annoying at best, and highly disruptive to work at worst. Fortunately, Microsoft is adding a way to see all your Bluetooth devices' battery levels in a single widget, alongside your laptop's charge levels if you're on the go.