If you're upgrading your PC, chances are you now have some older, spare components lying around. While you can toss these in the recycling bin to get rid of them, sell them, or pass them on to a friend or family member who could use some new hardware, those options just aren't enjoyable and, in some cases, may be difficult. Not all recycling centers will take old PSUs, after all.

Obsidian is a very feature-packed app, but it can get messy if you’re not careful when setting up your first vault. This can happen when you read about its best features and rush the setup, so you end up with a huge set of notes to try Graph View. Without a few simple habits, you may waste valuable time cleaning things up later.

The way we search for information has changed, and it's only set to expedite as we move into the world of artificial intelligence. We've seen this already with the more popular search engines favoring AI-powered results over traditional lists, which have the goal to provide accurate information at a glance, instead of requiring us to visit websites to find the desired information. It sounds good on paper, but this takes power out of our hands and places a little too much on the plate of software. Trusting algorithms to work out which websites provide the highest quality is one thing.

Last week at the Zurich Film Festival, Eline Van der Velden - founder and CEO of AI production house Particle6 and its subsidiary talent studio Xicoia - said that a number of talent agents had expressed interest in working with Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated "actress" created by the companies. Van der Velden has not gone into detail about which agencies might be contemplating whether they should bring Norwood (and by extension, Xicoia) on as clients. But simply saying that agents have come knocking was enough to get the entertainment industry trades buzzing and posting stories about how Norwood came to be.Norwood is the first of many lifel …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's a lot of math in diet culture. It's all numbers - calories in, calories burned - and a constant tally running in one's head. In some ways, disordered eating can be considered a disturbed sort of strategy game, which is precisely why Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson's Consume Me works so well. The autobiographical game detailing Hsia's teenage years is a darkly funny, honest peek into the desire to shape one's life and body through food.Food in Consume Me - tomatoes, kale, and pasta rendered as Tetris blocks - are assigned "bites," a stand-in for calories. Jenny's (the character, not the developer, who we'll refer to using her last na …Read the full story at The Verge.

Breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly is, apparently, like going to Mars or trying to replace Michael Jordan - dubiously possible and a huge amount of work.Those were some of the analogies witnesses testifying in Google's defense told a federal judge this week as the company mounts its second attempt to stave off a break up. After successfully beating that fate in the Justice Department's Search case, Google made its case to Virginia-based District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema to let it keep its ad tech business intact too. Along the way, Google witnesses argued it need not give up monopoly power to restore the competition it damaged, and t …Read the full story at The Verge.

The world of console exclusivity is beginning to fray a little; at least, if your name isn't Nintendo. While we won't see Mario on any other platform any time soon, some PlayStation devs have pushed for cross-platform releases to bolster their profits, while Microsoft has pretty much ditched the idea of Xbox exclusives and now aims to put its titles on as many devices as possible.

My job involves testing a lot of software, many times whole new operating systems. I've also been fortunate enough to review quite a few mini PCs I still have lying around, and because of that, I have a lot of choice when the time comes to test this software.

One of the biggest wins for Microsoft Teams is that it's easy to use, but you still need to know some of the important tricks for flawless communication. However, since Microsoft keeps updating Teams with new features and improvements, you also need to keep learning about those to get the best experience. And the best part is that Microsoft is quite open about telling the world what Teams features it's currently working on and when to expect them.

Acer has made many Spin-series Chromebooks before, and despite flaws, this is one of its best yet. I was cautiously optimistic about Acer's Chromebook Plus Spin 514 when I tested a preproduction model last month, but the final unit is here now and it sticks the landing. Well, mostly.Acer's latest convertible Chromebook has zippy performance and oodles of battery life, along with a good touchscreen with stylus support. But crappy speakers and no fingerprint sensor make its $700 price tougher to swallow, and prevents it from dethroning the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, our current favorite Chromebook.Acer Chromebook Plus Spin 514 (2025)Score: 7ProsConsExcellent battery lifeSpeedy performanceStylus supportCrummy, muffled-sounding speakersN …Read the full story at The Verge.

Back in January of this year, Lego released a new Game Boy. Well, it technically released one, because the Game Boy in question wasn't functional. It was just a kit you could use to construct a Game Boy that looked the part, but when it came to playing Pokémon Blue on it, there were no electronics within it. It was just a standard Lego kit.

In the early 2000s, the alarm bells had already been sounded for approximately a decade that IPv4 addresses were running out. Its 4.3 billion possible addresses, considered unimaginably large, suddenly looked very finite, and the standardization of IPv6 was a process undergone from the mid 1990s up until its publication in 1998. Yet just a few years later, in the mid 2000s, rumors circulated that China was working on IPv9. The problem, though, was that no international body recognized it, and it seemed drastically different from the rest of the wider internet.