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Rumors of OnePlus leaving the US market circulate once again as an announcement may happen "soon"

Simon Batt — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:27:54 GMT

Back in January, we saw a pretty huge claim that OnePlus was planning to wind down its operations worldwide. Top managerial positions in the company took to social media to refute the rumors, saying that the company was planning to continue as normal. However, the idea of OnePlus shutting down kept swirling in the back of people's minds, to the point where it's hard to brush off any negative signs as proof that the company isn't doing well.

Changing this one setting solved all of my Windows 11 Bluetooth issues

Hamlin Rozario — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:19 GMT

Bluetooth is one of those features you'd expect to work perfectly on Windows by now, considering how long it's been around. And to be fair, I have no trouble connecting my AirPods Max, PS5 controller, or any other Bluetooth peripheral. That part has never really been the problem. Whenever I leave my PC idle for a while or wake it up from sleep, that's when things start getting weird. More often than not, I've had to turn Bluetooth off and back on just to get the device to reconnect.

This open-source puck lets you use your Steam Controller on Xbox, Switch, and PlayStation consoles

Simon Batt — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:33:54 GMT

Once you find a good controller, you really want to use it on every gaming device you own. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as plugging an Xbox controller into your Switch, so you're often hunting for workarounds.

I transformed my unused SSDs into portable storage with this $14 external case

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:16:42 GMT

Over the past few weeks, I've been doing a bit of cleaning around the house I grew up in. The amount of tech unearthed was astounding, with old PC builds, cell phones I'd never even look at now from decades ago, along with HDD and even some SSD storage.

Your new laptop might have an SSD brand you've never heard of, and it's worth checking which one

Abhinav Raj — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:00:19 GMT

Whenever an industry finds itself amid a supply shortage, prices are the first thing to rise, and interesting alternatives to everyday products are usually the next to appear. The PC storage market seems to have produced its own example. In a recent review of the Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL, Notebookcheck found a 512GB NVMe drive from YMTC, which is a known Chinese NAND manufacturer.

I switched to an AI browser that runs its own local LLM, and I'm not going back to Perplexity or Chrome

Nolen Jonker — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:01:20 GMT

AI browsers have already had their moment. Perplexity's Comet kicked most of it off, then OpenAI shipped Atlas, and by early this year Google had baked Gemini into a persistent sidebar in Chrome with an agentic auto-browse mode. So even Chrome kind of counts now, which says something about how quickly this category filled up. In any tech or AI boom, you're always going to end up sifting through a lot of nonsense to find the handful that are actually worth paying attention to.

The dock makes your Mac mini feel like a complete workstation, now 40% off

Timi Cantisano — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:54:25 GMT

Despite it being such a small device, the Mac mini with M4 chip is packed with ports. You get two USB-C ports in the front, along with a 3.5mm audio jack. Plus, three USB-C Thunderbolt ports in the back, along with Ethernet and HDMI. Not bad for a compact device.

I tried booting Windows 11 from a USB drive, and it revealed why Microsoft let this feature die

Ethan Meyerowitz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:30:18 GMT

Since I've had great success booting Linux from external drives, I decided it would be fun to try booting Windows 11 from an external drive as well. It turns out Microsoft developed a feature called Windows To Go to help you do exactly this. With Windows To Go, you can boot up a Windows instance on any computer, and the only thing you need to carry with you is a tiny USB drive.

My Obsidian vault got too bloated, so I switched to this app for simple notes

Patrick Hearn — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:00:19 GMT

Obsidian has been my go-to productivity app for a long time. I basically manage my entire life inside of it, whether I'm drafting a story or managing personal finances. When I first started using Obsidian, my vault was snappy, and I could open it up and jot down a quick note without an issue. Now, though, with thousands of notes and images stored inside it, opening my vault takes several minutes, and even switching to it isn't as fast as opening the native Notes app on my laptop.

Photogrammetry makes games look incredible, but it's also why I rely on frame generation

Abhinav Raj — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:30:18 GMT

What do all the highly detailed, almost lifelike games like the Forza Horizon series, Black Myth: Wukong, Uncharted, God of War, and Microsoft Flight Simulator have in common? Each game represents one of the most stunning uses of photogrammetry in gaming. It is the only reason why a screenshot from Microsoft Flight Simulator, viewed from a virtual window seat, can look almost indistinguishable from a real photograph taken over the same terrain.