The Galaxy S25 Gets Edgy, and RIP Skype: Weekly Roundup

This was a engaged week successful the tech world, with much quality astir the upcoming Galaxy S25 Edge, Microsoft revealing the caller Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, much quality successful the Linux ecosystem, and the last shutdown of Skype. Here are the biggest stories you mightiness person missed.

The Big News

The New Surface Pro Doesn't Feel Pro

Microsoft has announced a caller 2-in-1 Surface Pro tablet, erstwhile again powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chipsets alternatively of Intel oregon AMD processors. It starts astatine $799, but it mightiness beryllium the slightest ‘Pro’ Surface Pro to date. Continue reading...

Microsoft Challenges the MacBook Air With New Surface Laptop

Microsoft has revealed a caller 13-inch Surface Laptop, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus chipset alternatively of Intel oregon ARM processors. Unfortunately, the basal configuration is little almighty and much costly than the erstwhile Surface Laptop. Continue reading...

This Mini PC Doubles arsenic a Not-So-Great Tablet

A decent mini PC tin powerfulness your homelab, basal successful for a ample desktop tower, oregon service arsenic the vas for immoderate weird Linux task you're pursuing. But mini PCs aren't portable. At least, astir of them aren't. Continue reading...

Google Messages Is Getting Two New Features You'll Love

Lately, it seems similar Google Messages has improved each fewer weeks, and present we're getting 2 much features everyone should love. If you ever wanted to unsend a connection oregon person much customization controls, particularly successful radical chats, you'll beryllium blessed astir these upcoming changes. Continue reading...

One UI 8 Beta (Android 16) Could Arrive for Samsung Phones This Month

Get ready, Samsung Galaxy users. The adjacent large update for your telephone mightiness beryllium person than you think. According to a report, Samsung volition beryllium kicking disconnected the One UI 8 beta programme (based connected Android 16) sooner than anticipated. Continue reading...

You Could Get $100 successful Siri Class Action Settlement

Apple conscionable got retired (badly) of a high-profile ineligible conflict with Epic, but it's not the lone ineligible conflict Apple has mislaid recently. You mightiness beryllium entitled to up to $100 successful compensation if you've had Siri snoop connected you anytime wrong the past 10 years. Continue reading...

The Nintendo Switch 2's Price Is Still up successful the Air

The long-awaited Nintendo Switch 2 mightiness not enactment astatine its existent price, based connected caller comments from Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa. While the institution is moving hard to marque definite the caller console does good successful the market, determination is simply a existent accidental that the terms could alteration arsenic commercialized wars continue. Continue reading...

Chrome Is Using Gemini Nano AI to Detect Scams

Google is utilizing its artificial intelligence, Gemini Nano, to combat online scams much effectively. The AI is changing however the Chrome browser, Android devices, and Google Search detects and stops fraudulent enactment successful existent time. Continue reading...

This Leaked Google TV Box Might Take Over My Guest Room

After leaking successful April, the Onn 4K Plus streamer is present listed connected Walmart's web store. It isn't disposable for acquisition conscionable yet, but astatine $30, it looks similar it mightiness beryllium the cleanable Google TV container for my impermanent room. Continue reading...

Razer’s New Basilisk Mobile & Joro Are for on-the-go Gaming

Razer has introduced 2 caller products, the Razer Basilisk Mobile gaming rodent and the Razer Joro gaming keyboard, to its lineup. These 2 accessories are large for gaming wirelessly. Continue reading...

Linux Mint Is Embracing the GTK4 Future, connected Its Own Terms

Linux Mint has forked and modified galore GNOME and GTK applications to support them moving with the Linux distro’s customized taxable support. The squad is present trying a caller attack that would let much existent apps to work, without extended modification oregon afloat sidesplitting taxable support. Continue reading...

This New System76 Linux Laptop Has an RTX 5070 Ti, up to 92GB RAM

System76 has been selling Linux desktops and laptops for years, and present the institution has revealed an updated Sevrval WS laptop. The latest exemplary has an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics, and of course, afloat enactment for desktop Linux. Continue reading...

Razer Synapse Is Finally Coming To Your Mac

Razer's peripherals are beauteous cool, but with the information that they're made for PC gaming and Windows remains the apical level for PC gaming, different operating systems person been neglected. At agelong last, Razer's Synapse bundle is yet becoming disposable connected macOS, truthful you tin negociate them all. Continue reading...

Lenovo's Legion 9i Gaming Laptop Has a Massive 18-Inch Screen

Laptops are meant arsenic portable computers, but sometimes, you gotta really wonderment however "portable" immoderate of them are. This latest laptop by Lenovo packs immoderate superior specs inside, but if you're readying to enactment this successful your backpack, you amended not skip backmost day. Continue reading...

The Galaxy S25 Edge Is Almost Here

Samsung is preparing to present its next-generation flagship smartphone. The institution has announced a Virtual Unpacked lawsuit acceptable for Monday, May 12, astatine 8 PM ET, wherever it volition uncover the highly anticipated Galaxy S25 Edge. Continue reading...

Home Assistant’s New Update Revamps Backups

Home Assistant has reached a important milestone of 2 cardinal progressive installations worldwide, close arsenic Home Assistant 2025.5 is starting to rotation out. This is simply a large update that has a batch of improvements to marque usage easier. Continue reading...

Microsoft Can Keep Activision Blizzard, Says Federal Court

A national appeals tribunal has firmly supported Microsoft, and agrees with a little court's determination to fto the institution support its $69 cardinal acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The ruling was unanimous and made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Continue reading...

Smart Home Devices Will Gain Tap-To-Pair Setup With the Matter 1.4.1 Update

Matter, the premiere astute location interoperability standard, present supports tap-to-pair and multi-device QR codification pairing functionality successful its latest v1.4.1 release. Unfortunately, the Matter 1.4.1 update does not present enactment for astute cameras oregon different caller instrumentality categories. Continue reading...

You Can't Buy MSI's Latest Tiny PC

A batch of you guys cognize I'm a sucker for computers that are dimensionally connected the smaller size. Some of them are amended than others, immoderate of them are much compact than others. This latest MSI machine mightiness not triumph immoderate quality contests, but it's tiny and it's beauteous bully connected the inside. If lone you could bargain it. Continue reading...

Google Fiber Has Arrived successful Two More Cities

Google Fiber net work is present disposable successful 2 much cities successful the U.S. authorities of South Carolina, Tega Cay and Fort Mill, with speeds of up to 8 Gigs disposable to residents. It’s large to spot Google’s ultra-fast gigabit net work inactive pushing into caller areas, but the rollouts are inactive facing agelong delays. Continue reading...

Raspberry Pi OS Gets One More Update Before Debian 13

Raspberry Pi OS, the main recommended operating strategy for Raspberry Pi computers, conscionable received a adjuvant update. This mightiness beryllium the past mentation based connected Debian 12 ‘Bookworm,’ up of the expected merchandise of Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ successful a fewer months. Continue reading...

Your Old NVIDIA Shield TV Just Got Another Update

While determination are a batch of streaming boxes and dongles retired there, the NVIDIA Shield TV remains 1 of my favorites. If you're inactive utilizing that aged Shield, we person bully news. NVIDIA conscionable released different update with galore fixes and improvements. Continue reading...

Anker’s New Soundcore Earbuds Deliver Bang for Your Buck

Anker's Soundcore audio marque has go a acquainted sanction for those looking to get prime speakers and earbuds astatine budget-friendly prices. This week, the institution launched its caller Soundcore Liberty 5 earbuds, which connection improved ANC and dependable simplification implicit erstwhile models. And yes, they're much affordable, too. Continue reading...

Unreal Engine INI Mods Don’t Actually Improve Performance

A caller Digital Foundry podcast addressed a long-running statement implicit the Unreal Engine. There is an statement implicit whether Unreal Engine ini mods really amended crippled performance, particularly the stuttering problems successful the Oblivion Remastered edition. Continue reading...

Fedora 42 Joins the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Fedora 42 is present offered alongside Ubuntu, Debian, and different fashionable distros successful the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's a neat summation for developers who privation to make oregon audit cross-platform apps without dual booting, arsenic good arsenic professionals who request to entree some Windows and Linux connected a azygous machine. Continue reading...

Sonos Symfonisk Lineup Ends After Breaking Ties With IKEA

The eight-year concern betwixt audio institution Sonos and furnishings store IKEA has officially travel to an end. This collaboration is what created the budget-friendly and high-quality Symfonisk enactment of speakers, but this merchandise enactment volition beryllium discontinued. Continue reading...

Roku Ads Are Getting Way More Obnoxious

Everyone's little favourite portion of streaming services is the information that they look to beryllium packed with much and much ads each time. If you person a Roku streaming instrumentality oregon TV, you present won't beryllium capable to flight ads adjacent if you intermission your playback. Continue reading...

This Limited-Edition “Skeleton” HDD Shows You How It Writes Bytes

Digital retention shaper Buffalo is celebrating its 50th day with the limited-edition HD-SKL Skeleton HDD. It's an charismatic small showpiece—an outer hard thrust with a "window" that lets you spot the spinning platter and R/W head—but it appears to beryllium a Japan-exclusive item. Continue reading...

Google's Gemini Just Got a Lot Better With Images

As bully arsenic Gemini is—it's personally my main AI chatbot, aft all—it inactive has immoderate limitations that support it from reaching its afloat potential. Among them, the information that it limits you to uploading 1 azygous representation astatine a time. Now, this is yet getting addressed. Continue reading...

Toyota’s Throwback Hatch Is a Perfect Blend of Retro and Futuristic

Toyota’s hatchbacks person agelong balanced practicality with a interaction of fun—but for 2026, they’re dialing up the attitude. The automaker is dusting disconnected a classical nameplate from the ’80s and bringing it backmost with a bold, modern twist. Continue reading...

The New Backbone Pro Controller Looks Great

"Pro" gaming controllers are a full conception successful and of themselves, but they often impact better-quality materials, backmost programmable macro triggers, and a full batch of other features made for existent gamers. If you've thought astir whether you tin bargain 1 for your phone, the Backbone Pro mightiness conscionable beryllium what you want, and it's looking beauteous good. Continue reading...

Samsung Wallet Is Getting Tap-to-Transfer Payments

Samsung Electronics conscionable announced a large update to its Samsung Wallet app. The institution is introducing a caller Tap to Transfer diagnostic for casual peer-to-peer payments, competing straight with Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, and different akin services. Continue reading...

Double Trouble for VW’s EV Van With Major Recall Announced

Volkswagen’s retro-cool electrical van is moving into immoderate precise modern trouble: recalls. Yep—two of them. Continue reading...

Ram’s New Truck Offers Stylish Looks astatine a Budget Price

Ram is bouncing backmost from a pugnacious income twelvemonth with a question of caller products, and starring the complaint is simply a caller trim for its full-size pickup. Meet the Ram 1500 Express—designed to bring much-needed vigor and entreaty to the lineup. Continue reading...

Infamous Switch 2 Leaker Now Faces a Lawsuit from Nintendo

International commercialized shows similar CES, IFA, and MWC springiness user tech manufacturers an accidental to interact with journalists. So, naturally, businesses that be these events effort to maximize media sum by showing disconnected nutty products, throwing generous parties, oregon creating different forms of spectacle. But crippled accessory Genki did thing unprecedented astatine CES 2025—it leaked the Switch 2. Now, Nintendo is suing the institution connected grounds of trademark infringement. Continue reading...

Here's the New Pebble Watch successful Action

As almighty arsenic modern smartwatches person become, immoderate radical inactive yearn for the simpler times erstwhile the Pebble scope of smartwatches was around. So it was a bully astonishment to spot that the creator of Pebble is bringing them back. We present person our archetypal look astatine the caller ticker successful action. Continue reading...

Today Is the Day: Skype Is Officially Shutting Down for Good

After each these years, Skype is yet shutting down. That acquainted bluish icon and bubbly ringtone are going dark, leaving immoderate radical looking for a caller destination for their video calls and chats. Continue reading...

YouTube Premium Is Testing One of Spotify's Best Options

Like everything other lately, YouTube Premium keeps getting much expensive. And portion I emotion YouTube Premium, which delivers ad-free videos and a YouTube Music subscription, it needs much options oregon pricing tiers. Luckily, YouTube is investigating a caller two-person program for couples oregon roommates. Continue reading...

ASUS' New Outdoor Wi-Fi 7 Router Offers Everything but Tri-Band

ASUS is preparing to motorboat the ZenWiFi BD4 Outdoor, a dual-band mesh Wi-Fi 7 router designed to widen your existing wireless net strategy beyond the home. It appears to beryllium a coagulated enactment for those who ain a ample spot and are already invested (or are consenting to invest) successful the ZenWiFi ecosystem. Continue reading...

First Look astatine Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android

For years, if you’ve wanted to plug your Android telephone into a show and get thing that felt remotely similar a desktop, your lone enactment has fundamentally been Samsung DeX. It offers a due multi-window interface, a taskbar, and the quality to usage your telephone similar a PC. Meanwhile, Android’s offering for different devices has been highly lacking. That appears to beryllium changing. Continue reading...