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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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Sean is a senior editor at The Verge, a very good website he helped found in 2011. He thrives at the intersection of gaming, technology, and toys, with a side of consumer advocacy because companies just can't help themselves, can they? Sean previously led breaking news teams at The Verge and CNET and the reviews program at Gizmodo. He also has that voice.

Ethics statement, June 2023: Sean's wife is employed by Apple as a video producer. He therefore does not currently report or edit stories about Apple products or Apple as a company.

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How a smart RGB cube fixed my shared home office.

My wife takes work calls that I can’t hear or see. She wears earbuds and doesn’t always speak. I’d often ask her questions without realizing she was busy!

But now, we have a red light that means “NO TALKING,” yellow for “LISTEN-ONLY CALL” and green for “CLEAR” — thanks to a $16 cube that took mere minutes to set up with WLED!


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Florida man arrested for shooting Walmart delivery drone.

Dennis Winn, the suspect, admits he fired what he characterized as a single warning shot.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office: “A bullet hole was discovered in the payload the drone was carrying.”

Shooting at aircraft is illegal, period; in addition to that, he’s also charged with “Criminal mischief damage over $1,000” and “Discharging a firearm in public or residential property.”


Framework Laptop 16, six months later

Preorders are fulfilled, it’s now on sale — is it better?

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AMD’s FSR 3.1 is here — and Sony’s PlayStation PC games are the first to embrace it.

Horizon Forbidden West, Ghost of Tsushima, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, and both Spider-Man PC games now support the upgrade to AMD’s upscaling and framerate boosting tech. It reduces shimmering, ghosting, and flickering of earlier versions and lets you use frame generation independently of upscaling.

God of War Ragnarök will also get FSR 3.1 “soon.”


The Ayaneo Flip DS’s second screen is getting more useful.

The Nintendo DS-like’s lower screen will soon double as a virtual keyboard, triple as a virtual touchpad, and quadruple as a dual-screen task switcher with the company’s Ayaspace v2.5 software update. Those could all make it a bit easier to navigate Windows handheld!


Finally, a budget eGPU for people who’ve already got graphics cards and power supplies.

The Minisforum DEG1 is just $99, it’s already on sale, and your existing desktop PC parts (GPU, PSU) can make it work.

It connects with Oculink, not USB4, so it won’t work with most laptops — mostly boutique handhelds. But it could be more powerful than existing Oculink eGPUs with a desktop card at its disposal!


Imagine plugging a gaming handheld into this.
Imagine plugging a gaming handheld into this.
Image: Minisforum