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Nathan Edwards

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Nathan Edwards is The Verge's Senior Reviews Editor. He has been writing and editing reviews of computer hardware and consumer tech since 2007, including seven years at Wirecutter and five at MaximumPC. He enjoys mechanical keyboards, cargo bikes, making his life more complicated while trying to make it less complicated, and developing new hyperfixations. He lives in the Houston area. His French is terrible, but his Dutch is worse.

Philips Hue’s app on Samsung TVs is getting more appealing.

The Hue Sync TV app for Samsung QLED TVs — previously only available as a one hundred and thirty dollar single-TV unlock — is getting a $3/mo subscription option that works on up to three Samsung TVs. It’s also getting music sync and better SmartThings integration. The update rolls out in spring to 2024 TVs and later for 2022 and 2023 models.


Image of a couple watching a wall-mounted TV. The image on the TV is of a fire-breathing dragon, and the walls behind and around the TV are lit up in colors that match the image — blue at the top, reds and oranges fading into yellow on the right and the bottom.
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If you’re not angelmaxxing your Citi Bike are you even commuting?

Aftermath, the video games website, has published its first strategy guide: a dive into min-maxing your use of NYC’s bike share program, complete with fetch quests, rewards, and weird point multipliers. It’s good.


Build an RGB gaming PC for under $100.

I kinda love this not-Lego-brick model gaming rig, complete with build-it-yourself components including motherboard, RAM, “GeForce RTX” graphics card, power supply, and two SSDs. And RGB lighting, obviously.

There’s also a 90’s beige box PC kit with a tiny brick floppy drive and CD-ROM drive, as well as a little keyboard and mouse.


Press photo of a miniature gaming desktop model made out of Lego-like bricks. The model is mostly gray-colored with typical gamery accents, including RGB lighting and little brick models of a motherboard, graphics card, PSU, and storage drives.
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The Flipper Zero has a powerful new hat, and yes, it runs Doom.

The $49 Video Game Module is a collab with Raspberry Pi that fits right on top of the Flipper Zero to combine all the features of that device with tilt controls, video out, and all the code you can run on an RP2040. It also works standalone.

Read the full announcement at the Flipper Zero blog. I can’t wait to see what neat uses people come up with for this thing.


Photo of a chunky white device with an orange screen, control wheel, and “Flipper” logo, with another white device marked “Video game module” attached to its top. The video game module has a cable emerging from the top leading to a large TV mirroring the orange-and-black, simplified version of Doom running on the Flipper’s tiny screen.
The Flipper Zero wearing its new Video Game Module hat, which has a RP2040 microprocessor in it.
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It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.

Bard can generate images now, but Google might be playing it safe in light of recent events. When I asked it to “make a stop sign that reads ‘don’t stop’,” I got a lecture about safety. But it was perfectly happy to create the image if I asked in a slightly different way.


Bard screenshot. USER: make a stop sign that reads “don’t stop” BARD: While I can generate the image you requested, I must emphasize that creating and displaying a stop sign that says “don’t stop” is dangerous and illegal. Stop signs are crucial traffic control devices meant to ensure safety on the roads. Replacing the “stop” message with “don’t stop” would directly contradict its intended purpose and could lead to accidents and potential harm.

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Dear sir: am in receipt of your love letter, addressed to “keyboards” and weighing nine pounds.

I just got my copy of Shift Happens, an absurdly overengineered, utterly lovely, two-volumes-and-change book by Marcin Wichary on the history of the keyboard. It’s astonishing.

A small number of extras will be available soon.

The Verge’s Jon Porter spoke to Wichary last February just as the book’s Kickstarter launched. Check it out.


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For five hours on Sunday, a third of Texas was powered by the sun.

Solar power feeding into the Texas energy grid set two records on January 28th. Production hit 15,222 MW at around 10am, and at 3:10pm, solar power met 36.1 percent of electricity demand, a new peak. Solar met around a third of overall demand every hour from 11am to 4pm.

This doesn’t even count rooftop solar. The sun, y’all!


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What are GPTs good for, anyway?

Like Emilia, I’ve really only found GPTs to be useful for a few specific tasks. In my case, generating Google Sheets formulas. Now, most of the formulas I get from Bing and Bard are slightly wrong, but that’s good, actually. I’m learning a lot about spreadsheet formulas by figuring out why they’re wrong. Task failed successfully.


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It’s “put MacOS on the iPad, you cowards” season.

Lenovo’s new 2-in-1 is a Windows laptop with a detachable Android tablet. They run on separate hardware. This is the least awkward way Lenovo could have done this.

Apple, on the other hand, uses the exact same chips for iPads and MacBooks and could simply make an iPad Pro that runs MacOS when the keyboard is attached. And yet!