Diarmuid Early won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some Excel pointers for today's office workers. Diarmuid Ealry Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World C...
The Fortnite South Park trailer is (officially) here, revealing an all-new short as Butters, Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny all drop in for five-player battle royale matches – a.k.a. Quints. Epic Game...
The GPD Win 5. AMD's Strix Halo, aka " Ryzen AI Max ," is a hugely expensive chip that includes some of the most powerful integrated graphics ever made. Though AMD initially marketed it more to AI wor...
Microsoft has made its first Xbox Game Pass announcement of 2026, confirming a number of big hitters for January. The headline additions are Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws and Capcom’s Resident Evil Vill...
The Gardyn Studio is that rare piece of tech that looks good inside my home. I can't grow anything. Multiple attempts to create a cottage garden, first in Idaho and now in South Carolina, have brought...
It’s also the first Xiaomi phone to include Leica’s little red dot logo. Xiaomi used the Christmas period to launch its top flagship phone for the year, the 17 Ultra. It drops the extra rear display t...
Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
The Lockin V7 Max looks nothing like other smart locks. | Image: Lockin While using a smart lock has a lot of positives, one of the negatives is having to deal with a battery that has unexpectedly gon...
📋 Key Facts ✓ A document has emerged contradicting Post Office claims about bugs in the Horizon IT system. ✓ The claims were made durin...
I built a macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time via API after hitting limits mid-flow too often. Signed and notarised by Apple. Open source. https://github.com/richhickson/claudecodeus...
The Audeze Maxwell ranks as one of the best gaming headsets on the market, and now its successor has arrived amongst the CES chaos. The Maxwell 2 replaces the first version and comes in at a slightly ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ US consulates are rescheduling H-1B and H-4 visa appointments up to June or November 2026. ✓ New online presence reviews,...
Aurora Bryant pivoted from working as a trial attorney to working in legal AI solutions. Courtesy of Aurora Bryant Aurora Bryant's childhood dream was to become a lawyer. She went on to work for the D...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Switch 2 priced at $449.99, Mario Kart World at $80, bundle at $499.99 ✓ 10.36 million Switch 2 units sold from June 5 to...
When you have a series that's consistently gotten new games for almost 40 years, you have to think about how younger generations will be able to play them. That, and, of course, thinking about your bo...
It’s almost the New Year, and time to treat yourself to a new pair of earbuds — especially if one of your resolutions for 2026 is to work out more. If you find yourself reading this and nodding, take ...
A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Claude Chrome plugin is now available to all paid Claude subscribers, beyond the $200-per-month Max plan. ✓ Claude ca...
Most consensus libraries (Raft, Paxos) treat the state machine as a pure black box. This is fine until your state machine needs to actually do something, like charge a credit card, fire a webhook, or ...
Daniel Min is the chief marketing officer at Cluely. Daniel Min Daniel Min says that generic cold outreach that doesn't showcase your skills will often fail. The CMO at Cluely says there are 3 things ...