Among the many Star Wars games that have come out over the years, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the most beloved by fans. It was a role-playing game developed by Bioware that highlighted an era of Star Wars set 4,000 years prior to the movies, which became popular when it first released for the original Xbox in 2003. It was critically praised by many outlets at the time, despite a few things about the game that were criticized in reviews. But Star Wars fans still view it as one of the best Star Wars games ever released, and arguably one of the best role-playing games of all-time to be released on consoles.

Ever since I started exploring alternate options to take notes, I've been constantly going back and forth between Notion and Obsidian. They're both excellent apps that offer a host of functionality apart from just taking notes. You can use them to create to-do lists, wiki pages, planners, etc. You can even map content from different notes and link them together. The possibilities are plenty. However, by default, Obsidian can only be accessed via the app. While that is fine for most people using their own devices, what if someone wants to access their Obsidian notes using a device that's not theirs? It could be a friend's phone, a public computer in a hotel, or their office laptop.

Once you accumulate enough self-hosted services and reduce your reliance on someone else's cloud, a murky question starts to hang in the air. Sure, you save untold riches every month by not paying for subscriptions. Still, part of that subscription fee is towards server maintenance and resilience so that the cloud provider has near-perfect uptime, and you can access your data at any time you need.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum speaking on April 22, 2025. | Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesMexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, CBS News reports. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term. The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s February threat that Mexico would “proceed to court” if the company didn’t change the name, which it kept as Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico, but switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in regions outside of the two countries. According to a machine-translated transcript of Sheinbaum’s Friday press briefing, she says “the only thing we want is compliance with the decree issued by the United States government,” which, she adds, “wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire Gulf, because that is an international attribution.” President Sheinbaum continues:We couldn’t say anything about changing the name of a state, a mountain, or a lake. So, the part of their territory that corresponds to them can be called whatever they decide. The part that corresponds to Mexico can’t be renamed. The part that corresponds to Cuba can’t be renamed, either. So, what we’re saying is, “Google, stick to what the United States government approved.”Prior to her briefing, Mexico sent letters to Google asking it not to label its territorial waters as Gulf of America, and Sheinbaum shared a reply from Google VP of government affairs and public policy Cris Turner stating the company had no plans to change its policy. CBS News notes that the US House passed a bill on Thursday that would codify the name change.The Trump administration has been insistent that non-government entities honor the Gulf of America moniker, even barring The Associated Press from Oval Office press briefings when the outlet refused to use the new name in initial reporting — a ban that a federal judge ordered last month be dropped. Among tech companies, Google was one of the first tech to comply with Trump’s wishes, altering the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America in app and browser versions of Google Maps by February 10th. Apple soon followed suit. MapQuest, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have given in, and has a site specifically making light of the name change.Google did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.

I think a big selling point for a Raspberry Pi project is how cool it looks. A project could take very little effort to make and include very few parts, but if I can imagine it sitting on my table and looking really cool, then there's a good chance I'll fall in love with it.

UV printing opens up a world of creative possibilities, especially regarding gift-giving. With its ability to print vibrant, durable designs on a wide variety of surfaces, you can make personalized items that feel professional yet heartfelt. Whether you're crafting gifts for friends, family, or customers, UV printing lets you combine quality with imagination.

With the announcement that Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto VI to May 26, 2026, it might seem like the publisher and parent company, Take-Two, is in dire straits without its cash cow. That may have been true in a different calendar year, but Take-Two has been working on several games, and the timing has worked out in the company's favor.

My cat Noodle, brought to life with an unsettlingly large, humanlike tongue.Chinese phone manufacturer Honor has launched an image-to-video AI generator powered by Google, before it's available to Gemini users. It will be available first for anyone who buys the Honor 400 or 400 Pro phones, which launch next week on May 22nd.The new AI tool, powered by Google's Veo 2 model, creates five-second videos based on static images, in either portrait or landscape, and takes a minute or two to generate each time. The feature is built directly into the Gallery app on the new Honor phones, and is designed to be simple: there's no option to include a text prompt along with the image, so you're stuck hoping that the AI does something sensible with it. Sometimes it works well. Give it a simple subject, like a clear photo of a person or pet, and it can generate quite realistic movement - albeit I'm pretty sure my cat Noodle's tongue isn't quite that big. Other subjects prove trickier: faced with a vintage car it made it rotate impossibly on the spot; fresh tomatoes were fondled by a ghostly hand; and it imagined a women's soccer game with at least 27 players across three teams, with two referees to keep control of the chaos. The first time I tried it, on …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Chrome has been my go-to browser since it first launched in 2008. It carried me through college and into the start of my professional career, all the way until this year. After 17 years of Chrome — nearly two decades — I dropped the browser in favor of another. The problems added up over the years in a series of small annoyances that wore down my relationship with Chrome until, finally, a frozen, laggy browser made me say "Enough."

The pause aims to provide time for further trade negotiations.The United States and China have mutually agreed to a 90 day reduction on tariffs implemented in April, marking a significant attempt to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.The deal was hashed out by US and Chinese officials in Geneva over the weekend, and will see the US reducing duties on Chinese imports from 145 percent to 30 percent, and China lowering tariffs on US goods to 10 percent, down from 125 percent. This new agreement doesn’t change the removal of the de minimis exception on May 2nd, which closed the tariff loophole that allowed businesses like Temu and Shein to send goods under $800 into the US without any added duties at all.“We concluded that we have a shared interest,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a news conference in Geneva. “We want more balanced trade, and I think both sides are committed to achieving that. Neither side wants a decoupling.”The 90-day pause is meant to provide the two countries time to negotiate a final trade deal.

It might be 2025, but let’s be real — 64GB USB drives and microSD cards are still everywhere. They’re cheap, reliable, and often the first thing you grab when you need a backup or plan a quick gaming escape.

I've been using Nginx Proxy Manager for quite a while now as a way to access my self-hosted services with valid SSL certificates over Tailscale. I have my own domain that I use with subdomains pointing to individual services, and it works very well. For applications that require HTTPS, such as Home Assistant for some features, it's absolutely perfect. However, I'd heard a lot about Caddy, and as I migrate some of my more essential home services to my mini PC Proxmox host, I decided to migrate my reverse proxies to the new host in Caddy instead of Nginx.