On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn't have been worse. EV tax credits were set to expire at the end of September. President Trump's trade war was tilting the balance in favor of China's EVs. And automakers are beginning to delay and even cancel some planned models. Ford seems to realize its timing is unfortunate. Throughout their announcement, the company's top executives kept hammering one salient point: this was going to be really hard, success was far from guaranteed, and in fac …Read the full story at The Verge.

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.

Taylor Swift at NFL Game. Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl. TS12 was introduced in a teaser — already viewed over 65 million times — for the next episode of the New Heights podcast airing Wednesday, hosted by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his big brother Jason. Tay extracted the $29.99 album from a briefcase but the artwork was blurred out ahead of tomorrow’s reveal. It’s already up for “pre pre-order” in a variety of formats over at taylorswift.com.The New Heights podcast consistently ranks in the top 10 on Spotify and Apple charts and this will certainly give viewership a bump. It’s the kind of masterful brand crossover that reportedly elevated NFL viewership and merch sales. Sometimes love is also, but sometimes it’s also good for business. View this post on Instagram A post shared by New Heights (@newheightshow)

Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will improve Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced performance, as well as support the enhanced version of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II that’s available today.The DLSS 4 upgrade to GTA V complements the game’s existing ray tracing capabilities, by allowing RTX 50-series owners to enable Multi Frame Generation and generate additional frames to make the motion of gameplay look smoother.Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced also has DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, as well as a new Dark Rot game mode that debuts with this enhanced version.You can download Nvidia’s new 580.97 Game Ready driver direct from Nvidia’s website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Collector’s editions are meant to celebrate a game’s launch, giving players something tangible to remember it by. While most contain art books, steel cases, or statues, some publishers go all out, creating premium packages worth hundreds, thousands, or even millions of dollars. Here’s a look at some of the priciest game editions ever made and what made them so special.

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.

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.

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.