Windows runs on laptops, PCs, and, I guess, phones, right? Well, what if I told you you could run it on your wrist, too? It turns out it's entirely possible, and while you probably shouldn't do it, someone installed Windows Pre-installation Edition (Windows PE) on a Google Pixel Watch 3 just because they could.

I don’t have a great PC configuration, and if you’re like me, you have to make ends meet with what you’ve got. Therefore, I’ve created a short list of free alternatives to some of the notorious resource hogs. These options have earned praise for being both lightweight and highly functional, ideal if you’re trying to spare your system’s RAM and CPU without compromising capability.

With the launch of new CPUs or GPUs, if there's one thing consumers wait for the most, it's gaming benchmarks. Seeing how the latest and greatest pieces of silicon perform in the latest titles seems so scintillating that we can't look away, even if many of us have no intention of buying a new CPU or GPU any time soon. However, many users still believe in the myths surrounding benchmarking.

I’ve tried just about every project management tool out there: Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Notion, you name it. Most are powerful, but there’s always a catch. They’re either bloated with too many features or missing just enough to leave you wanting more. And then there’s the issue of data privacy, handing over all your sensitive project info to a third-party cloud? Not ideal. Especially for someone like me, who is otherwise deeply entrenched in the self-hosting ecosystem.

Few works of art have left a mark on me quite like The Last of Us franchise. It's more than just a game — it’s a part of my emotional vocabulary, a story that has stayed with me through the years, reshaping how I view storytelling in gaming.

As one of the big three NAS distributions, TrueNAS Scale has several perks that make it worth setting up on your storage server. It’s compatible with the ZFS file system, offers terrific performance in virtualization tasks, and includes superb RAID provisions – without costing you a penny (looking at you, Unraid).

Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries. Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter batteries typically last 500 charge cycles, or between five and seven years. Once those batteries reach their end of life, Lime will ship them to Redwood’s North Nevada recycling facility, where the first step will be to figure out how much of the battery is reusable, such as various connectors, wires, plastics, and other components.After that, Redwood will begin a chemical recycling process, in which it strips out and refines the relevant elements like nickel, cobalt, and copper. Most of that refined material can then be reintegrated into the battery-making process. The company takes the materials and transforms them into “high-quality” battery materials that can then be sold back to its many partners to make new EV batteries. Around 95–98 percent of these materials are eventually recovered and returned to the supply chain, Redwood claims.Lime says it was impressed by Redwood’s high recovery rates, which helped persuade the scooter sharing company to make a deal. The company plans on recycling its batteries from its shared bikes and scooters in just three countries: the US, Germany, and the Netherlands. Lime says it currently operates 270,000 shared vehicles in 30 countries.“We’re in shared micromobility. So part of what we do, in essence, is a circular play,” said Lime’s head of sustainability, Andrew Savage. “Circularity of downstream, end of life batteries is quite similar, where we want to ensure that if a battery is no longer available for moving people around that we can get it back into the supply chain for its highest and best use.”Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by Jeffrey “JB” Straubel, a founder and former chief technology officer of Tesla. In addition to breaking down scrap from Tesla’s battery-making process with Panasonic, Redwood also recycles EV and e-bike batteries from Ford, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, GM, Rad Power Bikes, Specialized, Amazon, Lyft, and others.“We’re in shared micromobility. So part of what we do, in essence, is a circular play.”Redwood notes that each e-bike and scooter battery is around 0.5kWh, as compared to an EV battery, which is approximately 65kWh. Collecting around 130 so-called medium-format batteries provides enough recyclable material for one battery-electric vehicle. Alexis Georgeson, VP for government relations at Redwood, called the effort to recycle medium-format batteries “a massive opportunity.”“We recycled 20 gigawatt-hours worth of material just in 2024,” she said. “That’s enough to produce another 250,000 EVs. And that was spread across production scrap from the gigafactories to small consumer electronic devices, medium formats like these bikes and scooters, and then large-form EV packs and stationary storage.”In terms of material production, Georgeson said Redwood’s focus is on cathode, which represents 60 percent of the cost of the battery. “We have produced anode copper foil and delivered it to partners like Panasonic already,” she said, “but are really turning our attention right now to just scaling and investing more in cathode.”

Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, and the four other women on Blue Origin’s NS-31 flight.Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is preparing to put pop singer / songwriter Katy Perry into space, along with five other women: former NASA scientists Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen, journalist Gayle King, journalist and Bezos fiancée Lauren Sánchez, and film producer Kerianne Flynn. Their flight, called NS-31, will launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, with a launch window opening at 8:30AM CT / 9:30AM ET. It’s being livestreamed both on YouTube and Blue Origin’s website.Past New Shepard flights have taken passengers just to the edge of space, where they’re allowed to unbuckle and roam freely for a few minutes inside the capsule before buckling up again for re-entry. The capsule then deploys a parachute and touches back down in west Texas. During the flight, the New Shepard rocket itself returns to its landing pad.In a video posted to Instagram before the flight, Perry said she plans to make a “special reveal coming to you from zero gravity.” She posted an earlier video touring the capsule that she and the others will be aboard, and said she will probably sing in space. View this post on Instagram A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry)This is Blue Origin’s 31st New Shepard launch. The rocket’s last flight was in February, and previous tourists aboard it include William Shatner, and 90-year-old Ed Dwight, who was America’s first astronaut candidate, but who never made it to space.

If you're out of games to play but you're not in the mood to spend money, why not check out Metro 2033 Redux? It's a 2014 remake of a classic FPS that was released back in 2010, and it still has its fans to this day. If you act fast, you can snag Metro 2033 Redux for free for life, and it doesn't come with the additional DRM that comes with storefronts such as Steam and the Epic Games Store.

As addicting battle royales and massive open world RPGs threaten to take over your life, escape from never-ending games with a brain-teasing puzzle instead. Some people might enjoy the lure of a 1000-piece jigsaw or a Sudoku book, but my favorite puzzles have always been found in puzzle games. I can’t say no to a puzzle-filled video game, especially one that doesn’t overstay its welcome. My favorite puzzle games can all be conquered in an afternoon (around four hours or less), with some offering more challenges than others.

The modding community is abundant for the various titles out there, including our titled game: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. They range from being the most useful quality of life improvements to just hilarious “but why?” additionsthat folks would have a quick laugh about. Below is a list of some of my favorite mods I found for the game. I won’t say “essential” because everyone’s tastes differ, but I think you’ll find some helpful information if you keep reading below.

Every summer, the gaming community gets together to find out what new video games are on the horizon. The biggest publishers and developers take this chance to show what they have been working on for years, and while we don’t have a centralized space for everything to appear at anymore, like E3, many large events are still spread out over the summer months. One of the biggest shows every year is the Xbox Games Showcase, which will take place on June 8, 2025 at 10 AM PT.