That’s a bold color, especially for a Dell. | Image: Dell Dell's new Dell 14S laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo: it comes in four colors, is aimed at students, and it starts with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Announced at IFA 2026, the 14S is meant to sit below the recently launched XPS 13 and offer another affordable laptop option as most other models continue to climb in price. The 14S will come in linen (beige), dusty rose (pink), washed denim (blue), and velvet green (yep, that's green). That's much more colorful than the XPS 13, and like its fancier brethren, the 14S can be configured with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB or 1TB SSD.The Dell 14S isn't as thin or as light as the XPS 13, but in …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Dell XPS 13 is a slim, sleek laptop with a great display and plenty of power under the hood. For a limited time, you can get it for $300 off the laptop directly from Dell, which is an impressive deal if you're looking to buy a new laptop.

Half the time you use any AI for something research-heavy, the opening exchange isn't the question you actually want to ask. Instead, it becomes a whole setup you have to curate first, usually into a folder or project with a system prompt and knowledge base, depending on the AI's workspace features.

Samsung's Odyssey G60SF QD-OLED gaming monitor delivers a monster 500Hz refresh rate and has a 0.03ms response time. It's a product that's a level above the rest for sure. While its retail price of $1,000 is hard to swallow, you can now get it for $400 less as Amazon discounts it down to $600. It's not exactly cheap, but it is a sizable discount that's hard to ignore.

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also give Google a significant advantage in its race to outpace other AI companies. But while there's little downside for Google, these deals pose a distinct set of risks to each of the studios that might be thinking about going all-in on AI. Getting into bed with Google this way might benefit Hollywood in the short term, but …Read the full story at The Verge.

Some of the best productivity tools aren't the ones designed for the job I'm using them for. I have often picked up an app because it solves one specific problem, only to slowly adjust it around my own workflow. Open-source software makes this even more common because I can use a tool in ways its creators may never have expected.

Usually, when someone on Linux cannot play an online game, it's down to one of two reasons: either the game doesn't run well despite using Proton, or the game uses an anti-cheat system that's not compatible with Linux. However, this is the first time I've seen a company ban Linux users after years of allowing them to play. Ubisoft has announced that it's going to prevent Linux gamers from playing its title For Honor because it doesn't have the resources to ensure people aren't cheating on it.

It's not a great time to be a gamer of any capacity. PC hardware prices are on the rise, console prices are slowly increasing, and GTA 6 has proven that people are willing to shell out $100 for a game.

When I first switched over to Windows 11, I realized how cluttered Microsoft's newest OS had become. Between pre-installed AI that I didn't want to use, widgets that promoted clickbait, and prompts to try Microsoft services, I felt inundated with unnecessary content that pulled my focus away from being productive.

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing on cached data that was already processed and stored.Along with the announcement, a slew of early impressions popped up, including from Every CEO Dan Shipper, who claims, "It's the strongest coding model we've used, but now it's fast, token-efficient, and crucially actually speaks like a norm …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada.The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows "Lake Ontario" when panning over the area, while international versions of the app show both names, according to Bloomberg. Google updated its map shortly after the name change went live in the US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), but Apple waited a bit longer.Both Apple and Google changed the name of the Gulf of Me …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Roomba Max 875 Combo is iRobot’s latest flagship robot vacuum mop. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company's first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the contract manufacturer that purchased the once-troubled American robotics company out of bankruptcy in January.The $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo is the company's newest top-of-the-line robot vacuum and mop, and it debuts alongside the $899 Roomba Plus 678 Combo. Both models are available now at irobot.com.The key vacuuming improvement is a new sealing system iRobot is calling SealForce that takes vacuuming "to a leve …Read the full story at The Verge.