Like Amazon with its Big Spring Sale, Woot just kicked off a massive spring video game sale, and it’s packed with deals — like savings on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Super Mario Galaxy, Minecraft and more. This sale also includes tons of other bargains on games and accessories for Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation and PCs. These deals are available only through March 31 or until the stock runs out, so you might want to hurry.

Even eight years after the Switch’s initial release, straightforward deals on Switch consoles are hard to come by, but if you’re willing to buy one refurbished, Woot does have a deal available. You can get a Grade A refurbished model of the Switch OLED that comes with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe priced at just $270, which is a great deal if you already know that’s a title you’re going to want. For comparison, the list price of a new version of this bundle is $499.

You can also score serious savings on tons of gaming accessories right now, like this PowerA controller charging base for the Switch, which can be had for $14, a 50% discount on its $30 list price.

Or you can get the Razer Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition wired controller on sale for $55, a $45 savings on its $100 list price. The wireless version is also on sale for $110 on Woot. Additonally, there’s a wide selection of PowerA controllers on sale, including a Kirby Switch 2 controller and a Borderlands Xbox controller.

There are also some incredible game deals, and we’ve rounded up some of the top picks below:

• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening: $48 (save $12). Play as Link and explore Koholint Island, a strange new land where animals talk and monsters roam.
• Super Mario Party Jamboree: $47 (save $13). This Super Mario Party game includes 110 minigames and 22 playable characters.
• Pokemon Legends: Z-A: $45 (save $15). Play as a Pokémon Trainer and help protect Lumiose City.
• Minecraft: $25 (save $5). Place blocks and go on adventures with this popular game.
• Elden Ring: 19 (save $31). Become an Elden Lord in the Lands Between in this fantasy-action RPG.

Why these deals matter

Woot’s spring sale is an excellent time to stock up on accessories or grab some new games at up to 50% off. Woot deals often fly «under the radar,» which means they typically aren’t picked up and matched by other retailers like Amazon and Best Buy — making some of the best offers you’ll find right now.

It’s pretty easy to digitally sign important documents these days from your computer or phone. But sometimes they’re handed to you as physical paper, and it’s up to you to sign it, scan it and send it over email. When you just have to put your signature on a real-life document, but you don’t have a standalone scanner handy, the easiest method to do it is right in your pocket — using your iPhone to turn images into PDFs.

Yes, your iPhone doubles as a document scanner. It may not produce images as sharp as a dedicated scanner would, but it does a respectable job, even when the phone is positioned at odd angles, trying to capture text. iPhones have had this hidden feature since iOS 11 launched in 2017, but as the cameras built into Apple phones have improved, so has their ability to take decent scans of documents and turn them into PDFs you can email. 

You won’t need to download additional software or pay for a third-party app — Apple’s Notes app that comes preinstalled on iPhones does the trick. The good news is that it’s quick and easy to scan a document, save it, and send it wherever it needs to go. If you’ve kept your phone upgraded to the latest version of iOS 26, it’s easy to use this feature. Keep in mind that the process will be different if you haven’t upgraded past iOS 17, but we’ll walk you through it.  

Here’s how to scan a document with your iPhone.

Scan a document with your iPhone or iPad

To scan a document with your iPhone or iPad, first place the document on a flat surface in a well-lit area. 

Open up the Notes app and either open an existing note or start a new one by tapping the New Note button in the bottom right corner (pencil-in-square icon). On iOS 17 versions and older, tap the Camera button at the bottom of the screen (or if you’re editing a note, the same Camera icon will be above the keyboard) and tap Scan Documents. If you’re on iOS 26, instead of a Camera icon, you’ll tap the Attachments button (the paperclip icon) and likewise tap Scan Documents.

This will open a version of the Camera app that just looks for documents. Once you position your iPhone over the document that needs scanning and in view of the camera, a yellow rectangular layer will automatically appear over the document, showing approximately what will be captured. Hover over the document for a few seconds, and the iPhone should automatically capture and scan the document, but you can also tap the Shutter button in the bottom center. You can scan multiple documents at once if you’d like, and when you’re done, tap the yellow checkmark button in the top-right corner. 

Sign, share or save your scanned document

Once you’ve captured a document, you can tap it, and others you’ve captured in the same session, to edit them before saving them. You can also tap Retake in the top right corner to start again.

When you edit the document, you can re-crop it from the original photo captured (if you need to tweak its edges), switch between color filters (color, black and white, grayscale or the unedited original photo). Then you can save the scanned document.

Once it’s saved into a note, you can tap the Markup button (circled pen icon) at the bottom to sketch or scribble with different colors. If you tap the Add button on the bottom right (plus sign icon), you can add text, your signature, shapes or even stickers. Once you’ve added a signature, you can tap it to bring up a menu,  then tap the diagonal line to edit its thickness and color. You can tap and hold the signature to move it around.

There are also AI tools for adding and rewriting text, though they aren’t helpful for signing documents. To use them, tap the button in the center that looks like a diagonal pencil stylus surrounded by a circle of loops. 

To send or locally save the document, tap Share button at the top (the square-and-arrow icon) to send it via Messages or apps, copy it, save it locally to the Files app, print it out via linked printer or other options.

How to export your scanned document as a PDF

Understandably, you may want to send your scanned document as a PDF. Tap the Share button at the top (the square-and-arrow icon) and scroll down below the contact and app roulettes to the additional list of options. 

The easiest way to send your scanned document as a PDF is a bit convoluted: among the aforementioned list, tap Print and then tap the Share button at the top (square-and-arrow icon) once more — this will share your PDF-converted document. Then pick your share method of choice, most easily via email, though you can also upload it to cloud storage or send it via text message if you want.

You can also use a third-party app to convert your document to PDF if you so choose. Scroll down past the Print button to find your app of choice. For instance, if you have the Adobe Acrobat app downloaded to your device, you can select Convert to PDF in Acrobat to do so — though you’ll need to wade past several screens attempting to upsell you on Adobe subscriptions first. 

Why can’t I find the camera button to scan documents?

If you’re running iOS 26, the Camera button has been replaced with an Attachments button (paperclip symbol). It should function just the same: Tap it and choose Scan Documents from the dropdown menu

If you can’t see the Camera or the Attachments button, check to see if you’ve opened the note in either the iCloud section or the On My iPhone section — you’ll only be able to scan documents and save them in either of these places. If you can’t tell, tap Folders in the top left corner of the Notes screen and select either iCloud or On My iPhone. 

The document scanner is just one of many unnoticed iPhone features that come prepackaged in Apple’s handsets, often nested in the apps that come with your phone. Some hidden iOS 26 features add even more surprising capabilities already on your iPhone. But you can also find ways to do other tasks, like making a GIF on your iPhone, using third-party apps and through your browser.

In a bipartisan team-up, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are demanding more transparency regarding the energy use of data centers. 

The pair sent a letter to the Energy Information Administration on Thursday, urging the EIA to «establish a mandatory annual reporting requirement for data centers.» Wired reported the news earlier. 

Data centers have become a major topic of debate, as tech giants like Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta and Microsoft continue to buy massive amounts of land to house artificial intelligence data centers. While some landowners are taking the payouts, others — like a Kentucky woman and her mother, who turned down $26 million to sell their land — are holding out because of their opposition to data centers.

The interested buyer in Kentucky remains anonymous, but the landowner told WLKY they were described as a «major artificial intelligence company.»

Not only do data centers need large plots of land for their infrastructure, but they also require substantial water and electricity to operate. The exact amounts are not always known, which is why the senators are urging the change. 

The collected information would help with grid planning and «will support policymaking to prevent large companies from increasing electricity costs for American families,» Warren and Hawley’s letter stated in part. 

BloombergNEF reports that by 2035, the energy demand for data centers will more than double.

On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to pause all data center construction until the government enacts safeguards. 

«AI and robotics are creating the most sweeping technological revolution in the history of humanity,» Sanders said in a statement. «The scale, scope and speed of that change is unprecedented. Congress is way behind where it should be in understanding the nature of this revolution and its impacts.»