By late 2021, major updates for Windows’ built-in Notepad text editor had been so rare for so long that a gentle redesign and a handful of new settings were rated as a major update. New updates have become much more common since then, but like the rest of Windows, recent additions have been overwhelmingly weighted…
“It was really a setback for the company [Gouach] at the time,” Vallette said. “But we knew that the technology itself was good, so we designed our own casing.” Gouach’s casing is now rated IP67, Vallette said, and meets UL 2271 standards. Gouach’s video demonstrating its battery case’s fire resistance. Unexpected resistance There are three…
Pocket did more than this and leaned into longform journalism and literary writing. The site’s “Best of 2020” won a Webby award, and it regularly curated collections on a range of topics. Pocket is already used to curate recommendations on Firefox’s new tab page (if you choose that version of it) and will likely see…
Do you miss the feel of tactile buttons on your kitchen appliances or lament car manufacturers’ insistence on touchscreens? Have you ever found yourself clumsily fumbling with the door handles of a vehicle or distracted by the bright blue light beaming from your vacuum or Wi-Fi router? If so, you’re not alone. The way technology…
Project Moohan looks like a traditional VR or AR headset. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Project Moohan looks like a traditional VR or AR headset. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Unlike the Meta Ray-Bans, Google’s glasses have a display embedded in the right lens (you can just make out the size and location of the display in Sergey’s glasses…
Bambu Studio isn’t the most approachable application, but if you’ve made it this far, it shouldn’t be totally beyond your comprehension. For first-time setup, you’ll choose your model of printer (all Bambu models and a healthy selection of third-party printers are officially supported), leave the filament settings as they are, and sign in if you…
Out of all the books I read for my formal education, one bit, from one slim paperback, has lodged the deepest into my brain. William Blundell’s The Art and Craft of Feature Writing offers a “selective list of what readers like.” It starts with a definitive No. 1: “Dogs, followed by other cute animals and…
AI Mode as Google’s next frontier Google is the world’s largest advertising entity, but search is what fuels the company. Quarter after quarter, Google crows about increasing search volume—it’s the most important internal metric for the company. Google has made plenty of changes to its search engine results pages (SERPs) over the years, but AI…
SilverStone’s first ’80s throwback PC case started life as an April Fools’ joke, but the success of the FLP01 was apparently serious enough to merit a follow-up. The company brought another beige case to the Computex trade show this week, the vertically oriented FLP02 (via Tom’s Hardware). If the original horizontally oriented FLP01 case called…
AMD didn’t provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it’s promising that the cards have the same number of compute units as AMD’s last-generation RX 7600 series. AMD says that RDNA 4 compute units are much faster than those used for RDNA 3, particularly in games with ray-tracing effects enabled. This helped make the…