While cloud storage services are a popular option, you can't go wrong with local storage, especially if you're able to find some good deals. With that said, this Crucial X10 8TB portable SSD can be had at a great price right now as it falls to its lowest to date. For a limited time, you can score $340 off, dropping it down to $440. Now, this isn't cheap by any means, but you're getting a massive amount of storage for a great price.

Ever since the Digital Markets Act (DMA) went into effect in the European Union (EU), nearly all the big tech giants (which the European Commission refers to as "gatekeepers") have made some changes to comply with EU regulations. The list of tech giants includes Microsoft too, which made changes like allowing users located within the European Union to uninstall Microsoft Edge, Bing, and OneDrive from Windows 11 devices. The company also announced that data collected from third-party apps on Windows 11 PCs won’t be used to give Microsoft an unfair advantage over competing developers.

I’ve been an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber for over a decade, and even owned disk versions of Photoshop and Lightroom before Creative Cloud existed. My entire adult life has been lived alongside Adobe. But after huge injections of AI overhaul, untrustworthy price increases, feature changes, and a realization of my use case, it’s time for me to leave Adobe behind. Some people avoid Adobe from the start, and some migrate to fantastic alternative creative tools. It’s a struggle for me to leave, but these reasons are finally becoming too important to ignore.

Russian Governor Igor Ivanovich Kobzev shares an image of the strike’s aftermath in the Irkutsk region. | Image: TelegramUkraine launched a surprise attack on Russia that targeted more than 40 of the country's military aircraft on Sunday. The mission, called Operation Spiderweb, involved sending 117 drones over Russia's borders and into several of its airfields. It was the Ukrainian military's longest-ranged attack yet, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but it also pulls back the curtain on an elaborate campaign to put raw footage of the strike in front of a global audience.Within just hours, three videos of the strike spread from Ukraine's federal security agency to a journalist based in the country, later spilling into social media and news outlets worldwide. The videos appear to be filmed from the perspective of a drone, complete with an overlay of information about the drone's telemetry.In one video, the drone flies over an airfield, passing clouds of dark gray smoke billowing from multiple warplanes. Another clip apparently captures the moment a plane explodes into a tower of flames. The third shows a drone descending toward an aircraft, with the video suddenly freezing and displaying the message "Warning no data" upon reaching the plane. The Ukrainian government would later repor …Read the full story at The Verge.

My NAS has become such an integral part of my setup that I don’t even think about it as a separate device living on the network. I use it for both work and personal stuff without actively thinking about using it — it’s just second nature now.

Moving sucks. Ever since leaving college more than a decade ago, I've only lived in apartments, so I've had to get good at living small and managing my inventory of belongings before, during, and after a move.A lot of what makes that possible is that I really like decluttering. But it didn't come naturally - it's a skill I've had to practice, learn, and occasionally fail at. So I thought I might share my experiences here in case you find it helpful for a current or future move.I got good at decluttering when my wife (then girlfriend) and I decided to downsize from a one-bedroom apartment to a studio. We loved the one-bedroom for a lot of reasons, including its view of Seattle's Space Needle. But eventually, we realized we could afford to live in a more walkable part of the city if we could squeeze into a studio.That meant reckoning with the volume of stuff we had each brought into the apartment. Our move into the one-bedroom apartment was two people stuffing their separate lives into one. Our move into a studio meant we had to really decide what would make the jump to the next phase of our lives. It was an emotional thing.We made the decision to downsize a while before we …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'm a massive fan of Nintendo in general, and the Nintendo Switch generation has been the most engaged I've ever been with video games. It should come as no surprise, then, that the Nintendo Switch 2 is something I'm looking forward to with a ton of anticipation.

I’ve been a Windows user for decades, and have used the OS series for most of my workloads, be it gaming, testing new hardware, or even writing articles such as this one. However, I’m not too fond of burdening my daily driver with too many apps, especially when said applications lie on the coding side. Conflicting packers are a hundred times more annoying to troubleshoot on Windows than on Linux, and I’d rather not pollute my system with a barrage of packages and dependencies.

Almost all of The Verge’s staff have had the experience of moving to a new house or apartment. While the experience was different for everyone, one thing we all had in common is that, during this highly stressful process, we had each discovered at least one tool, app, or other gadget that turned out to be really (and sometimes unexpectedly) helpful in making things just a little bit easier.Here are some of the items — tech and otherwise — that could be useful if you’re moving from one home to another.Sharpie markersMy partner and I have many years’ worth of books in our basement, and we’ve finally gotten around to sorting them into what we want to keep, what we think we can sell, and what we’ve decided to donate (many, many of them). In order to make sure the right boxes of books go to the right places, I use thick-tipped Sharpies to write on the sides and tops of the boxes, using labels like: Shelve, Store, Autographed, or Book Fairies (yes, that’s the name of the charity). The words are very visible and won’t smear off — and I can be sure I won’t give away my beloved childhood copy of Little Women by accident. — Barbara Krasnoff, reviews editorColored dot stickersThey’re cheap, easy to get, and already color-coded for you. Here’s my advice: color-code your boxes by room, one on every side, making it quick and easy to figure out where every single box and container should go. Then grab one of those Sharpies, write numbers on them, and keep a Google Sheet or other spreadsheet telling you where all your stuff is and where it’s supposed to go. — Kate Cox, senior producer, DecoderA roll of shrink-wrap with handlesIt’s been nearly six years since I last moved, but the one tool that still stands out in my mind as the absolute hero of the ordeal was a simple 15-inch wide roll of plastic stretch wrap. It was not only an easy way to secure random piles of disassembled furniture and keep all the parts organized, it also came in handy for sealing up overpacked boxes that were on the verge of tearing, protecting couch cushions inside a dirty moving truck, and preventing dresser drawers from opening in transit. It was also useful for creating impromptu bags for holding miscellaneous furniture hardware. You’ll want to ensure you buy a roll with handles, which make it much easier to wrap around things. — Andrew Liszewski, senior reporter, newsPaper packing tape“You’ve gotta use this tape, it’s amazing,” said the girl at the U-Haul store, so I bought exactly two rolls, because I had already bought a six-pack of the regular plastic packing tape and I am an old soul who is suspicious of new-fangled things, especially when someone appears to be trying to upsell me on something at the counter. Over the week, as our paper tape supply steadily diminished, we fought over who got custody of the paper tape and who was consigned to the hell of packing with subpar plastic tape. Paper tape is better by every possible metric. It’s quite sturdy but you can tear it with your hands. There’s no need for a tape cutter or a tape gun. It doesn’t get tangled. It’s easy to find the end and lift it off the roll without it splitting. You can write right on it if you need to. I was concerned that paper tape would be flimsier or less sticky; there was no noticeable difference between the boxes that were taped up with plastic versus paper tape, except that a few times when I had used plastic tape, I injured myself on the serrated tape gun and spurted blood everywhere. — Sarah Jeong, features editorProtective glovesFunnily enough, I had already had the premonition that I was, at some point during this move, going to cut myself. This has somehow happened with every move I’ve done. I don’t know what this says about me, other than I have pathetic, soft little hands that are only fit for typing at a computer. For that reason, I bought these Bellingham Wonder Grip gardening gloves in size XS. I picked them because they were the smallest gloves at the Ace Hardware I was in. As it turns out, these are the only work gloves that have ever properly fit my tiny, tiny adult hands, which makes a huge difference when you’re trying to get an actual grip on heavy objects. The gloves are protective, but aren’t so thick that you lose manual dexterity. This is nice, because the last thing you want while packing or unpacking is to have to take your gloves off and on and off and on. If you, like me, are prone to paper cuts while packing, moving, or opening boxes, you should consider buying a pair of these gloves, which come in a nicely inclusive range of sizes that will accommodate even people with weak little hands who have trouble holding onto their iPhones, let alone anything actually heavy. — Sarah Jeong, features editorCross-line laser levelIf you’re mounting something to a wall, whether it’s a simple framed photo, a gallery wall of artwork, or a massive shelf, a cross-line laser is incredibly handy. Just flip it on, and perfectly level lasers shine across your room in both vertical and horizontal directions. It’s helpful for a variety of home DIY projects as well as simple redecorating. It’s still good to use a trusty old bubble level in tandem with it, but the laser gives you a convenient shortcut that makes mounting and measuring easier and faster. And it’s friggin’ laser beams! — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, reviewerStud finderYou can use a strong magnet to find metal screws and pinpoint the location of wooden studs behind drywall for securely hanging pictures or a TV mount. But Franklin Sensors’ ProSensor M210 Stud Finder makes that task so much easier. Using 13 sensors and 21 LEDs that light up to indicate areas behind the drywall that have a greater density, you can quickly determine the location, size, and center of hidden studs. It also works with wood and plaster finishes, and, for an extra level of safety, it includes a live wire meter that warns you where it may not be safe to drill. — Andrew Liszewski, senior reporter, newsElectric screwdriverIf you own a drill that comes with screwdriver and hex key attachments, then you might think that adding an electric screwdriver to your toolbox is kinda pointless. After finding myself fighting with my partner over who gets to use said drill during my last move, however, I don’t ever want to be without a backup option again. We had mountains of Ikea furniture to assemble, shelves to put up, and an assortment of random hole-drilling or screw-related tasks that needed to be done to turn our apartment into a home. Nobody wants to get stuck using a manual screwdriver when time is of the essence and your friend, partner, or parent needs the drill more than you do. Electric screwdrivers are also far lighter than hefty drills, so your wrists will thank you after several hours of assembling flatpack furniture. – Jess Weatherbed, news writerNight-lightsNavigating my home in the middle of the night with the lights off is easy now that my brain has memorized the floor plan, but during the first week of living here, the potential for stubbed toes was high. Shortly after I moved in, I installed SnapPower’s outlet covers, which feature integrated night-lights that draw power without the need for doing any wiring. Supporting both duplex (roundish) and decor (rectangular) outlet styles, the cheapest $21 version features a light sensor that automatically turns it on when it’s dark. A pricier $24 version includes a motion sensor that only activates when you’re nearby, with options for brightness and how long the LEDs stay on. — Andrew Liszewski, senior reporter, news

iPhone repair kit (2022)Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 – 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools available for equipment sold or used in the country’s second most populated state. As more states have passed right to repair laws, we’ve seen repair options and information becoming more widely available nationwide from companies like Apple and Samsung. If the bill is signed into law by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, that will add another significant market with these requirements in place. A press release from the United States Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), which has pushed for repairability laws nationwide, noted that this would make Texas the ninth state with a right to repair rule, and the seventh with a version that includes consumer electronics. It follows New York, Colorado, Minnesota, California, Oregon, Maine, and most recently, Washington, and would be the first state on the list with a Republican-controlled government.“More repair means less waste. Texas produces some 621,000 tons of electronic waste per year, which creates an expensive and toxic mess. Now, thanks to this bipartisan win, Texans can fix that,” said Environment Texas executive director Luke Metzger.

Many PC components and peripherals can be overclocked, allowing them to operate beyond their factory settings. It's more common for CPUs and graphics cards, but overclocking gaming monitors is also pretty common. Sometimes this is done at the factory, as displays sold at a 144Hz refresh rate often use panels with a 120Hz native refresh rate.

No one can prepare you for how chaotic the process of writing a novel can get. I had notes scattered in a dozen places and half-formed ideas in every note app I've ever downloaded. It was time to find a tool that would keep everything organized in one place and keep my workflow streamlined.