Here's the thing: I have the memory of a goldfish but juggle a lot simultaneously. This combination is, well, a complete disaster without some kind of support system. I've tried creating to-do lists to track every single aspect of my life, using personal knowledge management tools like Notion and Obsidian, and even tried setting endless reminders on my phone. But, none of it really stuck. Everything either felt too scattered or just too overwhelming to maintain.

Sun Day will estimate how long you can safely stay in the sun based on the UV index and your skin type. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has released a new app that tracks your sun exposure and vitamin D levels. It’s his second app in a week, after last weekend’s encrypted peer-to-peer messaging app Bitchat.Sun Day is available now for iOS via TestFlight, and the code for the project is available on GitHub. The app uses location-based data to display your local UV index and sunlight hours. You can detail your skin type and clothing level, then manually toggle when you’re in and out of the sun and the app will track your rough vitamin D levels for the day, along with how long you can be in direct sunlight without burning.Dorsey says he’s “learning” through his recent weekend coding projects, which he’s developing using the open-source AI coding tool Goose. It and similar vibe coding tools are one of the next key battlegrounds for tech’s AI giants — just last week a $3 billion deal for OpenAI to buy AI coding tool Windsurf fell through, as Google swooped in to hire Windsurf’s CEO and top talent onto its DeepMind team.

It’s been 16 months since a DMA ruling allowed iOS developers like Google and Mozilla to use their own browser engines in the EU, so…  where are they? According to the Open Web Advocacy (OWA) — a nonprofit group of software engineers that advocates for the open web — Apple continues to place technical and financial restrictions on WebKit-alternative iOS browser engines that effectively stifle competition.OWA says these barriers include insufficient testing tools outside of the US, hostile legal terms, and forcing browser developers to create entirely new apps to ship their own engines, causing developers to lose their existing European user base. Instead of allowing Google, for example, to simply update its existing Chrome browser with a Blink engine, Apple’s rules require a brand new app for the EU audience, resetting the user count to zero. Developers would then have to maintain two separate browser implementations.Mozilla told The Verge last year that it was disappointed by Apple’s restrictions, describing them as “a burden” on independent browser providers. “Apple’s proposals fail to give consumers viable choices by making it as painful as possible for others to provide competitive alternatives to Safari,” said Mozilla spokesperson Damiano DeMonte. “This is another example of Apple creating barriers to prevent true browser competition on iOS.”Apple added support for non-WebKit browsers in iOS 17.4 to appease DMA rules that aim to prevent tech giants from disadvantaging third-party browser engines, but the OWA alleges that Apple’s restrictions mean it is “not in effective compliance with the DMA.”“Ensuring other browsers are not able to compete fairly is critical to Apple’s best and easiest revenue stream,” the OWA says. The group notes that Safari brings in $20 billion per year in search engine revenue from Google, accounting for 14-16 percent of Apple’s annual operating profit, and that it’s set to lose $200 million per year for every 1 percent of browser market share that Safari loses.Outside of the EU, Apple is also facing pressure from UK regulators to allow developers to use alternative browser engines in iOS, following an investigation that found both Apple and Google were “holding back” mobile browser innovation.

Nothing ruins an already-stressful trip to work than a traffic jam, and that goes double when you're already late. However, these days, we have a ton of technology to help us not only spot jams as they occur, but also find alternative routes around them so we can get where we have to go faster and avoid adding to an already dire situation.

I'm not much for productivity-focused software, but there's one utility that's redefined how I use my PC. It's called Espanso, and it's a text expander. Type in a trigger word (or series of characters), and Espanso will step in and swap it out with whatever you want. Replace ":poke" with "Pokémon," or save some time by replacing ":greeting" with a stock email template. That's the basic idea, but Espanso goes much further.

Microsoft's PowerToys offers plenty of handy features, some of which are so powerful that they can replace built-in Windows functionalities. One such capability in PowerToys is the ability to instantly launch apps and commands through its Run utility or the relatively new Command Palette (also known as CmdPal), as both can launch things faster and more accurately than the Windows Start menu.

This excerpt from Adam Aleksic's Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th.The modern-­day incel is entirely an invention of the twenty-­first century. Before the internet, lonely men simply didn't have a way to gather and share ideas. That all began to change in 1997, when a Canadian student started a website called Alana's Involuntary Celibacy Project to connect with others over her shared lack of sex. As the name implies, the site wasn't a place for just straight men; rather, it was used by people of any gender or sexual orientation.In subs …Read the full story at The Verge.

Some of the most beloved Star Wars games to ever be released are the Knights of the Old Republic games. These games for the original Xbox introduced fans to a new era of the Star Wars galaxy, many years before the conflict between the Empire and Rebellion that people watched in movie theaters. What made this time of Star Wars so interesting was how much it felt familiar to longtime fans, but it had more than enough new things to discover and follow that felt refreshing and interesting. Despite having a few critically acclaimed games that explored this era, including an MMO that is still played today, not many Star Wars games were set during this timeframe in a galaxy far, far away. It was always a time that felt largely ignored by most Star Wars video games that were developed across multiple platforms.

Google’s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software that currently runs across Google’s Chromebook laptops.Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, told TechRadar that “we’re going to be combining Chrome OS and Android into a single platform.” Samat, who’s responsible for Android’s implementation across mobile, wearables, XR, TV, and auto, added that he’s “interested in how people are using their laptops these days,” suggesting he may be adding a new string to his bow.The comment is the closest thing yet to official confirmation of a change that’s been rumored for months. In November 2024 Android Authority reported that Google is “migrating ChromeOS over to Android,” with the aim of competing with the iPad. That process may have already begun, with Google itself announcing last June that ChromeOS will now be “developed on large portions of the Android stack.” Chromebooks can already run many Android apps.Meanwhile Android is getting a little closer to ChromeOS this year with new features including a desktop mode, resizable windows, and improved support for external displays. Google bringing its two operating systems under one roof makes a lot of sense on paper, allowing it to speed up feature development and work on improving functionality on tablets, where both its current OSes lag behind Apple’s iPadOS. Then again, that’s been true for a while — a merger of the two platforms was reported ten years ago in 2015, and The Verge wrote that it “makes perfect sense to bring them together” two years before that. This is a change that’s been a long time coming, but that means it might be a long time still.

We're currently at an exciting time in the world of Windows users. Windows 10 falls out of support in four months' time, and we're seeing two sides try to win over the people who are still using Microsoft's older operating system. On one side, you have Microsoft, which would really prefer it if the hangers-on either upgraded to Windows 11 or purchased a new PC if their current hardware doesn't support the newest operating system. On the other side, you have the Linux community, which is tempting people with a free operating system change without the need to purchase new hardware.

Pebblebee is turning its Clip tracker into a personal safety alarm for free. | Image: Pebblebee Pebblebee has announced a new personal safety feature for its Clip location tracker that’s compatible with both Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find Hub network. Alert is being introduced as a free update to the Pebblebee app today, and the company says it will work with current and future versions of the Clip without requiring a subscription fee. Pressing a button on the tracker will activate a loud siren and flashing light to alert anyone nearby that you’re in trouble, while also triggering the app to send a notification to an emergency contact.Activating the Alert feature requires you to rapidly press the Clip’s button several times, and it can be canceled by rapidly pressing the button again or using a single long press. When canceled manually, your Safety Circle contact will receive another message letting them know it was deliberately stopped. Unlike the sounds that the tracker emits when you’re trying to locate it, the 97-decibel siren has a more urgent tone so that it’s immediately obvious to those around you that there’s a problem, and the tracker’s siren and flashing light will continue for up to a minute.The new feature is comparable to the SOS Alert that was introduced by Pebblebee’s competitor, Tile, last September. Tile’s alert feature comes without the audio and visual alerts but will contact multiple people when activated, even if you’re not a paying subscriber, while having Life360’s team ready to dispatch emergency services to your location requires a Silver, Gold, or Platinum subscription that starts at $7.99 a monthThrough the Pebblebee app, you can set up a “Safety Circle” consisting of one trusted contact, who will receive an SMS message when the Alert feature has been activated. The emergency message includes a secure link to the location where the alert was triggered, which can be viewed in a browser so that your contacts don’t need to have the Pebblebee app installed. The company says it plans to expand the Safety Circle to multiple contacts “in the near future,” with continuous live location tracking being a feature on its “product roadmap.”To ensure you know how to use Alert ahead of time so you can reliably activate the feature during a real emergency, the Pebblebee app includes a test mode that allows you to practice rapidly pressing the button without alerting your Safety Circle contact.Update, July 14th: Clarified the details of Life360’s SOS Alert feature.

I'm usually at my desk for hours a day and can't work without a dual-monitor setup as it significantly improves my efficiency. I use my 17-inch laptop as my primary display, and I pair it with either a 27-inch gaming monitor for daily use or a 15.4-inch portable monitor when I'm on the go and working in coffee shops.