Gaming mice get all the glory when it comes to media coverage, but what if you want something simple, compact, and more importantly affordable? That's where the Lenovo 300 wireless mouse comes in, delivering all the above at a fantastic price. While its usual retail price is set at $17, you can now score a huge discount that knocks 53% off as it drops to just $8.

When Microsoft slipped the first public preview of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) into the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August 2016, it mostly appeared to be a niche convenience aimed at developers who missed Bash and a Linux terminal. Few outside the Insider community guessed it would grow into a fully fledged, GPU-accelerated, GUI-capable Linux environment, maintained and delivered by Windows Updates and the Microsoft Store. Yet, nearly a decade later, WSL has grown and flourished into something more, and is arguably one of the biggest features added to Windows in a long time.

Long-simmering tension between Silicon Valley and the press that covers it is surfacing during the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust trial against Meta. During a heated cross-examination of the FTC's key economic expert, Scott Hemphill, Meta's lead attorney, Mark Hansen, noted that Hemphill joined Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and former Biden official Tim Wu in pitching regulators on an antitrust probe of the company back in 2019. The pitch deck for the probe that was shown in court included "public recognition" of the company's aggressive acquisition strategy from two reporters: Kara Swisher, who currently hosts two podcasts for The Verge's parent company, Vox Media, and Om Malik, the founder of the early tech blog GigaOm who is now a venture capitalist.In an attempt to undercut Hemphill's credibility, Hansen caught Swisher and Malik in the crossfire. He called Malik a "failed blogger" with an axe to grind against Meta. He then suggested that Swisher, whom he referred to as a Vanity Fair columnist (she last wrote for the site in 2015), was similarly biased against the company. In court, he projected a headline about her recently calling Mark Zuckerberg a "small little …Read the full story at The Verge.

There is no other game series in the first-person shooter genre that is praised more than Doom. It is the gold standard against which all other FPS titles are compared, and the benchmark by which gaming setups are judged. When it comes to pure mayhem and adrenaline-pumping action, Doom is arguably one of the greatest video game series ever developed. Nobody can truly experience the fun of playing a first-person shooter without playing a Doom game. It's just that good and enticing to come back to many times over.

Overheating isn't just a concern for your CPU and graphics card; even your unassuming SSD is prone to it. While overheating storage drives wasn't a problem a few years ago, Gen4 and Gen5 NVMe SSDs can heat up under load, depending on the drive model, your PC's airflow situation, and even which M.2 slot you pick. Most SSDs are designed to run under 70℃, beyond which they can throttle and reduce performance. Fortunately, there's a lot you can do to give your drive the best chance of avoiding overheating, thereby extending its lifespan.

Hey, remember that one Recall feature that Microsoft pushed back again and again? We're coming up to a year since it was meant to come out, but after there was a huge issue with its security practice, we saw Recall delayed for further fixes.

Raspberry Pis can be a lot of fun to tinker with and make strange and amusing trinkets with, but they can also be the workhorse of devices around your home. In fact, it's so easy to get caught up in the weird and wonderful that it's easy to forget that these are little computers you can use to perform useful things around your home. And once you start using the Raspberry Pi to enhance your home, you really can't stop thinking of ways to use it. So, here are some ways I use a Raspberry Pi around the home.

In a world increasingly dominated by a small handful of tech giants, many people are looking for ways to escape the grasp of big companies like Google and Microsoft. Recently, I've become one such person and began my self-hosting journey using a spare mini PC I had lying around. One of the many services I'm interested in replacing is Google Calendar, and perhaps unsurprisingly, there are quite a few options.

By the time you read these words, it's quite possible that Adorama will be out of stock of the new DJI Mavic 4 Pro. But when I wrote them, the US-based retailer was still selling a drone that wasn't supposed to go on sale in the US at all, with roughly 70 left in stock.This morning, I wrote how DJI was skipping the US with its most advanced drone yet, citing Trump's tariffs among other reasons for the decision. DJI did not send the drone to US reviewers, and it wouldn't provide US prices when we asked.But Adorama and B&H, two rival camera stores based in New York City, apparently didn't get the message! @verge It might be a while until you can buy the new DJI Mavic 4 Pro in the US. #dji #mavic4pro #drone #tech #techtok ♬ original sound - The Verge Today, they both listed the drone for $2,699 - or $3,549 for the Fly More Kit, or $4,649 for the Creator Combo with the fancy new controller with the folding sticks and swiveling 1600-nit screen, or $1,299 for that controller all by its lonesome. B&H even issued a press release. B&H is only offering preorders today; I confirmed with Miguel Perez in the store's drone department that "we don't yet have it in stock," and he …Read the full story at The Verge.

Watching YouTube videos from the website on your PC can be a drag. You have pop-ups and distracting sections on the screen. There is clutter on the right side of the video with advertisements, related videos, other distracting content on the right, and comments under the video.

TrueNAS Scale, Unraid, and OpenMediaVault stand at the apex of the Network-Attached Storage OS landscape, with each distribution featuring its own perks and quirks. However, they’re far from the only options at your disposal. Even without harnessing the power of virtualization, you can turn Proxmox into a reliable file-sharing server once you arm it with the right set of packages – and the same holds for Debian, Fedora, and other general-purpose distributions.

There's one sentiment that's been consistent among PC gamers for nearly two years: 8GB graphics cards just don't cut it for a modern gaming rig. Games have gotten more demanding, and even at 1080p, there are titles that can fully saturate an 8GB frame buffer. Running out of VRAM doesn't always look the same, though.