Microsoft hasn't been the most honest company with its search engine, Bing. It has done some pretty strange and somewhat shady stuff in the past to encourage people to use its search engine. In the past, the company would detect when someone used Bing to search for Google, then show a new page where Bing would mimic Google's design elements to trick people into thinking they had arrived at their intended destination. The truth is, they never left Bing; it's just Bing that looks surprisingly like Google.

In the sprawling, hyper-competitive world of PC peripherals, choosing a new mouse feels like a declaration of identity more than a simple purchase. I've been branded on Discord servers by the mouse I use, and there's a clear set of features that set gaming mice apart from the ones that truly mean business. However, a good mouse, at its core, is an extension of your hand — a tool that should fade into the background, seamlessly translating your intent into action on the screen. The perfect mouse is the one that has exactly the features you need and none of the ones you don't.

The CMF Headphone Pro can be customized by swapping their ear cushions with alternate colors. | Image: Nothing CMF, the budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to spin off into a standalone subsidiary, has launched its first pair of over-ear wireless headphones. The CMF Headphone Pro borrows features like a multi-function roller control from Nothing’s Headphone 1 that debuted in July, but while Nothing’s over-ears feature a polarizing boxy design, CMF’s go hard on the soft curves with round earcups, cushions, and a well-padded headband.The CMF Headphone Pro are available starting today in the EU and UK, but US customers will have to wait until October 7th, 2025, to grab a pair. At $99 they’re much cheaper than Nothing’s $299 Headphone 1 and offer more customizability. The Headphone Pro come in subtle dark gray, light green, and light gray color options, but you can add some color contrast with replacement $25 ear cushions that come in bright orange or light green.Like Nothing’s first over-ears, CMF’s Headphone Pro eschew touch-sensitive panels for tactile buttons designed to be easy to find and discern. In addition to a round power/Bluetooth button on one side and a matching action button on the other that can be customized using the Nothing X app, the Pro features a multi-function roller for adjusting volume, controlling playback, and adjusting the presence of ambient sounds. They also include a unique control called the Energy Slider that quickly adjusts the Pro’s treble and bass balance without having to open Nothing’s app to make EQ adjustments.The CMF Headphone Pro offer adaptive active noise cancellation that will automatically adjust the aggressiveness of the sound dampening based on the intensity of the ambient noise around you, but it does come with a big battery hit. CMF says you can get up to 100 hours of playback with the Pro’s 720mAh battery fully charged, but that’s reduced to up to 50 hours with ANC turned on. That’s still 15 more hours than you’ll get from the Headphone 1 with ANC active, and much better performance than Sony’s WH-1000XM6 which top out at 40 hours per charge, or 30 with ANC. But should you find the Headphone Pro have died at an inopportune time, like right before a flight, a five minute charge will give you up to four hours of listening, and they can even be recharged by plugging them directly into many smartphones using a USB-C cable.

Forgive me for this; I'm not 100% sure how someone goes about scalping products. I know the general gist, but when it comes to the finer ins and outs, I really have no clue. It's mainly because I have no desire to purchase a product purely to resell it to people in need for an inflated price, so I never really looked into the finer details. Didn't seem like something I wanted to study up on, you know?

You've done the research, watched the reviews, and finally pulled the trigger on a blazing-fast M.2 NVMe SSD. You're dreaming of instantaneous game loads and file transfers that finish before you can blink. I've been there and enjoyed the instant boot-ups from a new SSD too, but try moving a massive game library, and watch in horror as the transfer speed plummets from a god-tier 7,000 MB/s to a glaring reminder of your old spinning disk. When the progress bar slows to a crawl, it can be because your SSD has run out of SLC cache and is now writing to NAND, or because the drive is simply too hot.

Ever since its inception in 2012, the Raspberry Pi lineup has ruled over the Single-Board Computer ecosystem with an iron fist, and for good reason. They are compatible with plenty of distros, compact enough to fit in any tinkerer’s arsenal, and have a lot of community resources designed to help newcomers get their feet wet with SBC projects.

As a freelance blogger, I'm always searching for better tools that give me more control online. Lately, I've been exploring self-hosted apps that I can run on my own computer, allowing me to avoid big companies tracking and controlling my data on my own terms. When I discovered SearXNG, a self-hosted search engine, I got an idea: what if I could use it to create my own private version of Google Alerts? The thought of receiving updates on my favorite topics directly to my phone, without anyone else knowing what I'm following, was too good to ignore. So, I decided to try and build my very own private alert system from scratch.

For years, OneNote was my digital home. It was the trusty workhorse for every meeting note, project brainstorm, and idea dump. However, as my workflow evolved, its isolated, static nature started holding me back. After trying out Microsoft’s new Notion rival for a week, I made the risky decision to abandon my entire OneNote structure and shift completely to Microsoft Loop.

You know, Microsoft is pulling the plug on Windows 10 in under a month from now. That operating system had a good 10 years of operation, but as the company shifts focus to the newer, shinier Windows 11, it has to cut off Windows 10 to free up resources. People who have signed up for the additional year of security updates will still receive the occasional patch to keep the operating system running smoothly, but in terms of bug fixes and new features, Windows 10 is complete.

Overclocking could almost be considered a lost art at this point, thanks to modern technologies and algorithms that handle everything for you. Modern AMD and Intel processors can automatically adjust clock speeds, voltages, and more on the fly with extreme precision, allowing you to get the most out of the chip with your current cooling headroom. That said, it is still possible to tweak til your heart's content within the UEFI BIOS by working your way through advanced CPU power management settings. You can configure values for various terms such as PL1, PL2, EDC, and TDC, alongside many other toggles that aren't self-explanatory.

If you've already put a few hours into Hollow Knight: Silksong, you've probably realized just how brutal Pharloom can be. Enemies hit harder, bosses have nastier movesets, and Hornet's faster playstyle doesn't always make things easier. That's why Crests are so valuable. They allow you to tweak your build, giving you an edge when things get overwhelming. Two of the most useful early to mid-game Crests are the Reaper's Crest and the Wanderer's Crest. Both can make Silksong far more manageable, but in very different ways. Below, we'll cover what they do, how to get them, and why you should consider slotting them into your build.

We're approaching the end of 2025, and that also means Microsoft is readying a major annual Windows update, just like it does every year. If we go by rumors, Microsoft is only a few weeks away from releasing the Windows 11 25H2 stable update for general users.