My favorite thing about Google's Pixel line has always been how minimal and straightforward it is — it also helps that it's very iPhone-like (sorry, hardcore Android users).

The Acer Swift Go 16 AI | Image: Acer As high memory and storage prices have driven up the cost of everything from consoles to computers, finding a competent laptop for under $1,000 has become a challenge. Thankfully, the Acer Swift Go 16 AI is on sale for $899.99 at Best Buy, a steep discount from its usual list price of $1,549.99. The well-equipped laptop has an Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor, 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 1TB SSD. It has a great 16-inch OLED (1,920 x 1,200) touchscreen, too. Its tall 16:10 aspect ratio lets you see more, and it has a 180-degree hinge that lets you find your preferred viewing angle.Acer Swift Go 16 AIWhere to Buy: $1549.99 $899.99 at Best BuyThe generously-sized multi-touch touchpad has a Corning Gorilla Glass top layer, and its backlit keyboard even squeezed in a numpad. Sure, its integrated Intel graphics aren’t great for serious gaming, but it should be more than powerful enough for Balatro, and the system can run for over 20 hours on a single charge, depending on brightness settings. It has quite a few ports, particularly when compared to other slim laptops, including two USB-A 3.2 ports, two USB-C with Thunderbolt 4 support, HDMI 2.1, a microSD card slot, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.Correction, June 30th: An earlier version of this article mistakenly used a photograph of the Acer Swift 16 AI instead of the Acer Swift Go 16 AI.

I upgraded to macOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 2 after coming back from vacation, tired and just wanting to get back to work. I had been using the first beta without a hitch, and I was excited to see what the new beta had to offer. However, within a couple of hours, my M4 Pro MacBook Pro was getting uncomfortably hot and the battery was dropping ridiculously fast, from 100% to about 40% in two hours. I closed Affinity first since it's a known battery drainer, but that made no difference. The laptop stayed hot, the fans kicked in, and I figured I'd sort it out later.

Wine is an incredible piece of technology that has been enabling users to run Windows apps on Linux for years. Thanks to contributions by Valve through the Proton project, Wine has evolved massively in recent years, and a lot of games are now playable on Linux this way, with a lot of apps also being functional this way.

Dish, the company that operates Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy," as reported earlier by Reuters. The plan will allow the EchoStar-owned company to continue to wind down its wireless operations after "unforeseen delays" held back its sale of $23 billion worth of 5G spectrum to AT&T. Dish TV, Sling TV, and other brands involved will continue to operate during the process, and in a press release, the company says it plans to emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of the third quarter of 2026.Boost Mobile and Gen Mobile aren't included in the bankruptcy process and will continue to operate as normal.Due to the delayed 5 …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I implemented Pi-hole on my home network, I thought of it as a set-and-forget thing, as most of the community discussion suggested. I installed Pi-hole on my home Debian server, added a couple of reputable blocklists, and set it as a default DNS on my dual-WAN gateway. And for a while, it really did seem like the job was done. Ads disappeared, obvious trackers filtered out, and the dashboard showed me thousands of blocked queries.

Owning an e-reader certainly helps save physical space. Still, books need to be bought, and digital copies aren’t that cheap either. While Project Gutenberg is a popular go-to source for loading free books on my e-reader, there’s a limit to the number of titles and genres available. Many were digitized long ago and lack proper formatting, making them feel like a chore to read.

TCL's TV division is going through flux right now, as next year it starts making co-branded Bravia TVs after taking over a majority stake from Sony. That makes the QM9K that we're looking at today special, as the last flagship before the changeover. Will it be a fitting swansong for the brand, or will it fall on its face? Only a few months of viewing and testing will tell, and we've already done that, so here's what we found.

The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its complaint, the FTC accuses Amazon of refusing to provide customers with information about purchases made with fraudulent accounts, in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).As alleged in the filing, identity theft victims who contacted Amazon "would often enter a Kafkaesque sequence" where a support agent wouldn't provide records related to a fraudulent account unless they could name the person who opened it.In one instance, a victim attem …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Steam Machine is fast approaching, but realistically, we don't need Valve to build a dedicated home console, since the Steam Deck is already a chameleon. Why spend $1,000+ on Steam's new console when the Steam Deck is a handheld you can use on the train and also doubles as a flawless console under the TV? By using a Steam Deck dock, you can turn this handheld into a permanent living room fixture that easily outclasses the convenience of Windows and the locked-down ecosystem of traditional consoles.

Obsidian has been the center of my note-taking and productivity workflow, but one thing was always missing: a proper way to organize notes like a database. I tried building my own system with Dataview, and while it worked, it took time to set up and wasn't always as intuitive as I wanted.

Most NAS USB ports live a pretty boring life. They get used for an occasional external drive, a quick backup, or a forgotten flash drive that sticks out of the back until the next time you crawl behind the shelf. That makes sense, because storage is the obvious job for a storage appliance. Still, I think that habit undersells one of the most useful things a NAS can do when something starts acting strange.