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Mini PCs have gotten genuinely capable over the last couple of years, but most of them still ask you to accept meaningful connectivity compromises to get into a compact chassis. The GEEKOM A7 MAX doesn’t make that trade. It’s down to $699 at Amazon, a $250 saving off its $949 list price, and it pairs a Ryzen 9 7940HS with dual USB4 ports, dual 2.5G LAN, and DDR5 memory in a package that takes up less desk space than most monitors. What you’re getting The AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS is an 8-core, 16-thread processor that boosts up to 5.2GHz, which…

Dr Michelle Ng turned a moment of loss into a new beginning for herself On Jun 28, 2025, Dr Michelle Ng was 39 weeks pregnant, nine days away from giving birth. That’s when she received an email from her previous employer, saying that they would pause her senior doctor incentives and deduct from her maternity pay to cover the commissions for doctors hired in her place.  She read the email twice. Then she went on to draft her resignation letter with conviction. What happened next would transform Dr Michelle’s and her family’s lives. Within a few months, she would open…

Apple Watches are smart little gadgets, but they don’t always fit the vibe. There were plenty of nights and dressier events when I left mine at home because—as much as I wanted to check my notifications discreetly—it didn’t match my outfit. I’ve also had my fair share of faux pas and just let the neon orange sport band clash with my neutral ensemble.Fortunately, Apple Watch bands are a simple and relatively affordable way to zhuzh up the look of your wearable. Beyond aesthetics, different styles also impact performance and functionality. For example, I don’t want a heavy stainless steel or…

Eric Howard, founder of Dog Tired, rides his One Wheel while running Boone, a golden retriever, near Lake Tapps, Wash. (Photo courtesy of DogTired) It’s tough to tell who has the bigger smile: the guy zipping by on the Onewheel, the dog running alongside him at full sprint, or the passersby lucky enough to witness it. This is Eric Howard‘s dream job. Howard is the founder and chief dog runner at Dog Tired, a dog-exercising service outside of Seattle that operates at a different speed. After stints in tech, including at data visualization company Tableau, Howard ditched the corporate leash…

Capital One Financial Corp.’s five-year mission to transform its information technology operations to a “serverless-first” model is paying off in improved developer productivity, lower operating costs and a shift away from infrastructure focus toward customer-facing outcomes. The move has been less a technology migration than a redefinition of how applications are built, operated and governed at enterprise scale, executives say. Reducing the need to manage infrastructure has required the financial services giant to shed some control, but the speed at which it can deploy new applications has more than made up for the tradeoffs. Serverless computing is a cloud execution…

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get access to member-exclusive stories every month, become a Vox Member today.AI is coming for the laptop class. While you clack away at your keyboard — writing code or drafting memos or making spreadsheets or scrolling X or perusing DoorDash or reading Vox or dreading death — machines are teaching themselves how to do your job.Over the past four years, chatbots have gone from neat parlor tricks to hyperproductive polymaths. AI models can now generate new software out of a single English sentence, summarize case law in seconds,…

Is it the era of the great digital retreat? Ofcom’s latest report concludes so. Ofcom recently conducted a survey across UK social media users and noticed a strange dip. Only 49% of the UK adults actually post, share or even comment on social media. That’s a 61% decline since 2024. The reason, one can assume, is the panopticon effect. Social media was always thought be a space for the ‘now’- the ‘present.’ But if one hasn’t noticed, it’s now used as a record of our past and present followings. You can also call this: archive anxiety. It’s the fear that…

This canceled LG Rollable smartphone highlights how far behind today’s designs feel. A newly surfaced teardown from JerryRigEverything shows the device wasn’t just experimental, it pushed further than what you can actually buy today. The LG Rollable smartphone never reached store shelves, but it did make it into the hands of a few internal users. Now, a teardown video details how much engineering went into a phone that almost launched back in 2021. LG What stands out is how complete the concept feels. Even after five years, the hardware works, and the approach tackles problems foldables continue to face. Inside…

Pinball video games have been around for years — I cut my teeth on Space Cadet 3D Pinball, which was pre-loaded on Windows 95. They range from realistic recreations of pinball tables you’ll find at arcades to games that could never exist in real life like 2019’s Demon’s Tilt or older ones like Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS or Pokémon Pinball for the Game Boy Color.I didn’t expect to find a detailed pinball game for the humble and delightful Playdate, but a pair of developers working under the name Amano pulled it off with Devils on the Moon…

Mowers I Am Currently TestingWe are just into a new cutting season here, so I haven’t tested these new robot mowers enough to make a full recommendation, but here are my impressions so far.Photograph: Simon HillMammotion Luba 3 AWD for $2,399: If this robot mower continues to perform as well as it has in its first week, it will earn a spot above. It is pricey, but the Mammotion Luba 3 AWD can handle relatively rough terrain and steep slopes, and it combines three technologies (GPS, LiDAR, and AI vision) to ensure it can cut larger lawns even where there…