If you make good use of the Microsoft Outlook Meeting Insights, I have bad news and very bad news. The bad news is that Microsoft is retiring the feature in mid-August. The very bad news is that you can only get what's replacing it if you're subscribed to Microsoft 365 Copilot.

For years, Linux gamers who wanted to play Minecraft Bedrock had to use a pretty restrictive port of the game. While it did allow for some online play, you couldn't connect to cross-play servers with it. Fortunately, that has now changed, as a new version of BedrockOnLinux opens up the door for public server play.

I love the Nvidia App. As a matter of fact, so much that I've gone to state that it is very much a product in its own right that strengthens Nvidia's ecosystem and makes one feel happy about being a part of its growing ecosystem. It's a curated window into the driver that delivers the latest features from Team Green and makes them usable the day they ship, and that itself is a massively underrated luxury of owning a GeForce RTX graphics card.

When I first picked up the Asus ROG Ally X, I thought it was an amazing piece of kit. It had a massive 80Wh battery, 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and a great chassis. On paper, it had every single physical ingredient required to be a Steam Deck Killer. However upon switching it on, I was met with immediate abrasive software friction that makes it feel so far removed from the perfect gaming handheld.

In May 2026, Flathub maintainer Bart Piotrowski announced that the platform would no longer accept apps that used AI-generated code. People speculated that it might do more harm than good, but as one person has discovered, vibe-coded apps tend to be abandoned or deleted far more often than human-made ones.

It's been a good few weeks for games on rails. Nintendo's Star Fox remake wisely kept the tightly scripted, action-packed levels from Star Fox 64 largely the same, and they're still fun to fly through nearly 20 years later. Denshattack!, a new game from Undercoders, similarly features levels packed with carefully orchestrated sequences to great effect. Except instead of flying through space as an unnervingly realistic anthropomorphic fox, you're flying - and flipping, and spinning, and grinding - through Japan while driving a blindingly fast train.Calling Denshattack! a train game radically undersells what you actually do. Across a bright …Read the full story at The Verge.

You don’t need a $10,000 Amflow PX Carbon Pro, but it doesn’t hurt. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Cheater, I'd grumble between huffs as yet another e-bike rider casually skittered past me on a steep ascent. It's this purist attitude that, for years, has left me blind to one simple fact: electric mountain bikes are fun!My attitude adjustment came a few weeks ago, the very first time I rode an Amflow PX Carbon Pro fitted with the incredibly compact, lightweight, and powerful M2S motor from Avinox, a new DJI offshoot that has incumbents like Bosch and Specialized on edge. The motor doesn't make me a speed demon, but it does let me suck better by compensating whenever my poor technique kills the momentum.Mountain biking has a long histor …Read the full story at The Verge.

There's nothing more frustrating in this hardware economy than investing in expensive components, only to find out they aren't delivering the full value for your money. And yet, thousands of builders are living exactly this scenario without knowing it by running flagship NVMe drives only at a fraction of their rated speed. That's a problem because the speed of your storage is a key determiner of your PC's user experience.

AI coding tools can generate a landing page in minutes, but that does not tell me much about how they handle a real project. I wanted something more demanding, so I asked Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot to build the same complex finance dashboard for my upcoming home renovation.

Over the years, I've tried out basically every productivity app that's out there. Todoist, Any.do, basic Apple Notes, etc.—the list goes on and on. And they all usually worked for a short time until they became something I forgot to use or ignored. The apps would usually help me make a list of things I needed to do, but they ended up becoming collections of tasks that didn't actually help me get things done.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn't as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been recording the next season of Version History (this season's finale is out on Sunday!), reading about data center heists and Backyard Baseball and the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, canceling my October plans to see Digger 30 or 40 times, taking on the new Knockout Tour routes in Mario Kart World, learning more than I ever intended about Staten Island thanks to Revisionist His …Read the full story at The Verge.

When there's a home lab user in need of remote access, the conversation ends up at Tailscale almost every time, and for good reason. It's something you can setup without touching a command line, and the process is a road very-well trodden by thousands of other home-labbers. It's polished and works incredibly well, but I took a different front-end route for my services.