If you have purchased a laptop in the last few years or even explored available options, you must have noticed how all companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo, and Asus are pushing thinner laptops. Marketed as sleek, slim, ultra-thin, or lightweight, these models are suddenly getting all the attention, whether on the official website or with third-party retailers.

With the way prices are rising for RAM, SSDs, and other PC parts, there's a good chance that not a lot of people are going to be building a new PC anytime soon. But what if you need something new now, and can't really take the time to wait it all out to see where prices go? Well, that's where a new laptop or mini PC comes in.

Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk's lawyers may have just fucked up big.Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was dull and seemed to exist primarily to get some documents read into the record, which sucks but is a normal part of sitting through trials. But at the very end of his boring testimony something interesting happened. I believe we all got a surprise, something that rarely happens in courtrooms.The lawyer conducting his direct examination …Read the full story at The Verge.

You can't go wrong with a TV that costs just $100. Not only do you get a slim design with great colors and contrast, but this model also packs Amazon's Fire TV. That means access to some of the best streaming services out there right now. So, if you've been thinking about buying something new, this 40-inch Hisense A4 smart TV might be just what you're looking for.

Of all the areas AI has affected in our daily lives, I think the effect it has had on upscaling in video games is the one that feels the most magical. When done correctly, it essentially allows you to play your games at better framerates without sacrificing any visual fidelity. And while some eagle-eyed enthusiasts may be able to spot the difference between a native and an upscaled game, it's getting scarily close now.

The Android vs. iOS rivalry is a tale as old as time, but years ago, they weren't the only major operating systems you could get on a phone. Microsoft had its own mobile OS called Windows Phone, and while the idea of bringing its operating systems onto mobile devices seemed like a great idea at the time, the company eventually exited the market to allow Google and Apple to duel alone.

It's no surprise that I'm a huge fan of e-ink displays. Usually, I'm checking out ESP32 and Raspberry Pi projects that use the technology in some way. They don't update very often, but that just makes them perfect for status displays and dashboards. And they use so little power that you barely notice them on your energy bill.

Dyson’s newest robot vacuum adds mopping capabilities but takes away the Dyson motor of its predecessor. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't use a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop was "co-engineered," Nathan Lawson McLean, senior design manager at Dyson, told The Verge. According to Lawson McLean, the device merges "new and already existing Dyson technologies with other platforms." Specifically, the new lidar-based navigation tech and the robot's vacuum motor were developed by a third party. "It's not one of our V10 motors; it's one of our partner technologies," said Lawson McLean."It's not one of our V10 motors, it's …Read the full story at The Verge.

VS Code is probably the best IDE out there right now. It has almost everything you need, whether it’s AI features, stability, or performance. In terms of pure features, it checks all the boxes, and on paper, it’s open source. There isn’t much to complain about at first glance.

A little while ago, the Linux Mint dev team announced that it wanted to take longer dev cycles between OS updates, which means we won't be seeing a new version of the operating system release until at least Christmas 2026. While it's always good for dev teams to go at a steady and sustainable pace, it is sad to think that Linux Mint will basically be feature-locked until 2027 is almost here.

We are absolutely obsessed with benchmark scores and thermal throttling, yet we ignore the fact that our eyes hurt after two hours and our wrists are developing carpal tunnel. The world of PC gaming is very interesting. The irony is that you have spent $1,500 on a GPU to see more detail, but your monitor is positioned so poorly that you are actually squinting at it and have a hunchback in order to see it.

I’ve been using Claude Pro long enough that I don’t even really give much thought to what I gained from the subscription. The five-hour reset on the free tier was getting old, so I upgraded, and that was kind of the end of the internal debate. What I didn’t have a clear answer for at first was what exactly I was getting for it beyond longer sessions - not in the feature-list sense, I know what the features are. More like which of those features I’d actually miss if they went away, and how they made my workflow possible.