Author: Awais

The discussion around open-source productivity suites is usually dominated by one name — LibreOffice. I even got around to using it when I tried going fully open-source for a week. However, for someone like me, who isn’t a power user, there were aspects of LibreOffice that just didn’t click. Specifically, the need for modern conveniences, such as collaboration and mobility, made me switch to something else. I ended up settling for another open-source productivity suite called OnlyOffice. While it lacks some of the advanced features of LibreOffice and not everything is free, I discovered it meets my needs. I don’t…

There’s more than one way to make a sweet potato casserole. There’s the classic pecan or marshmallow topped version that shows up on holiday tables year after year, of course. But sweet potatoes can also show up in a breakfast bake, a dessert dish, or mixed with apples in equally delicious dishes. These 10 top-rated sweet potato casseroles show the variety of ways you can turn the beloved orange-hued spud into a crowd-pleasing part of your meal. Sweet Potato Sonker Photographer: Robby Lozano / Food Styling: Jennifer Wendorf / Prop Styling: Abby Armstrong This sweet potato sonker is is vry…

In a previous article, I of the most important techniques I utilize to code effectively with AI agents. In this article, I’m continuing with four additional techniques, all of which I use on a daily basis. I believe that in order to be an efficient programmer today, you have to heavily utilize AI tools. If you’re not coding using AI agents, you’re falling behind. Furthermore, agents can be used for so much more than coding as well: Agents can read and create Linear issues Agents can perform deep research on a topic you’re interested in Agents can review log messages…

As you might expect, things have been relatively quiet on the deals front since Black Friday, particularly when it comes to discounts on charging accessories. Thankfully, Anker’s aptly titled Laptop Power Bank is once again on sale at Amazon and Walmart for $87.99 ($47 off), which matches the record-low price we last saw at the end of November.Unless you’ve been living under a proverbial rock for the past several years, you’re probably aware that Anker makes an ungodly amount of charging accessories. The portable A1695 “InstaCord” has quickly become a favorite among Verge staffers, however, owing to the fact that…

Using the Gemini overlay on Android today comes with a major limitation that breaks the flow of multitasking. When you trigger Gemini using the hotword or by long pressing the power button, the assistant appears on top of whatever app you are using. But despite looking like an overlay, it does not behave like one. The moment you tap the background to return to another app, Gemini shuts down entirely. When you bring it back, the conversation is gone, and you have to start over, making longer or slower tasks frustrating to use. Google is now working on a fix…

The wonders of almond flour are many. It’s got protein, a gentle nutty-sweet flavor, and only one ingredient (almonds, of course). It’s grain-free, paleo, and gluten-free. But almond flour’s assets can also work against it in recipes. Since it’s made from nuts, it’s much higher in fat than flours made from grain, and that extra fat can lead to dense baked goods. Its lack of gluten means you need to use it with binders to keep cakes and cookies from falling apart. Translation: Instead of swapping almond flour 1:1 in recipes calling for all-purpose flour, use almond flour in recipes…

Google reduced the minimum audience size requirement to just 100 active users across all networks and audience types, making remarketing and customer list targeting far more accessible—especially for smaller advertisers. What’s new. Audience segments with as few as 100 users can now be used across Search, Display, and YouTube, including both remarketing lists and customer lists. The same 100-user threshold now applies for segments to appear in Audience Insights, down from 1,000. Catch up. The shift toward smaller audience thresholds began in May, when Google lowered the minimum user requirement for Customer Lists in Search campaigns from 1,000 to 100.…

All monitors have HDMI and DisplayPort to connect to a PC (or even VGA if it’s a really old one). Those are the basics. If you want the latest of these port standards in monitors, you’re looking for HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.1.More and more monitors nowadays include a built-in USB hub, which can sometimes include USB-A ports, an Ethernet jack, and more. Once you connect over the upstream USB-C (or USB-B if the monitor’s a bit older), you can plug accessories and peripherals directly into the monitor. That’s particularly useful if your laptop doesn’t have many ports, or if…

Best Buy has knocked $250 off one of the better-balanced prebuilt PCs you can buy for under $1,000 right now. The iBuyPower Slate desktop (SBA7R96XT01) has dropped to $999.99 from a listed value of $1,249.99, and it excels in a category where corners are often cut.What separates this system from many sub-$1,000 rivals is the platform choice. Instead of leaning on older DDR4 memory and last-generation CPUs to hit a price target, this build uses AMD’s Ryzen 7 9700X paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM.That combination alone puts it ahead of a lot of similarly priced desktops that ship with…

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of interest for folks outside of the tech industry, let alone an issue of particularly captivating political resonance. Well, as of 2025, it would appear those days are officially over. Over the past 12 months, data centers have inspired protests in dozens of states, as regional activists have sought to combat America’s ever-increasing compute buildup. Data Center Watch, an organization tracking anti-data center activism, writes that there…