- Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
- Nanoleaf’s latest smart lights are designed to amplify entertainment
- Apple says proposed UK law ‘poses a serious threat’ to end-to-end encryption
- How NASA Writes Space-Proof Code
- Microsoft wanted to acquire Square Enix as part of plan for mobile Game Pass
- Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
- Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff
- Microsoft CEO says he wants to end Xbox exclusives but blames Sony
- Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private
- How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
- Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
- 1Password now lets you manage family accounts in its apps
- YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
- How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever
- Twitter has started blocking unregistered users from viewing tweets
- Elon Musk puts a reading paywall on Twitter
- Lego Stop-Motion Recreation of Iconic Scenes From The Shining
- The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
- How Wes Anderson Uses Miniatures to Create His Distinctive Worlds
- Behind the Scenes of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
- The Missing Bill Murray Scene From Asteroid City
Tag: Apple
Weekly Links 06.12–06.18
- PHOTO TOUR: New Indiana Jones Den of Destiny Prop Gallery & Bar at Hollywood Studios
- Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: Apple’s Big Air era
- Star Wars Outlaws gameplay looks like Grand Theft Auto: Tatooine
- Forgetting How to Be Yourself
- Vintage Analog Photo Booths
- Western Digital NAS drives flash three-year ‘warning’ in Synology DSM
- Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, judge rules
- Google Home launches its new smart home automation script editor
- Before She Was Famous: Demo Tape of Madonna Performing With Her Post-Punk Band
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №27
- Plotter, Sunsama, and Notion: A Simple Hybrid Productivity System
- How We Created our Master Resource Database
- Jeff Abbott’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- Mike Schmitz’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- Jermey Keith — Add view transitions to your website
- Dave Rupert — A guy telling peanut butter jokes for 12 minutes
- Dave Rupert — Markdown images are an anti-pattern
- Dave Rupert — My double standards about JS framework compilers
- The Best Illusions of 2023 Contest
- Sony starts testing cloud streaming PS5 games
- Nvidia’s RTX 4060 will be available to order on June 29th
- Apollo Remastered
- It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice
- The New Rubik’s Cube World Record Is Just 3.13 Seconds
- The Supreme Court Just Made This Gerrymandered Map Illegal
- Daring Fireball: Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit Is Already Showing Results
- Chris Coyier — margin-trim as a best practice?
- Chris Coyier — Google Passkeys
- Chris Coyier — New File Here
- Chris Coyier — Two Things That are Not Great About OKLCH
- The Verge’s favorite travel gear
- The 2023 Father’s Day Gift Guide
- Reducing Complexity in Front End Development
- Google Domains is shutting down, and its assets are going to Squarespace — I got burned again. You really can’t depend on Google to keep any of their services running.
- Apple Mac Studio (2023) review: the M2 Ultra rips
Smart home
The Verge published several smart home articles this week.
- What is a smart home, and do you need one?
- Apple Home, Google Home, or Amazon Alexa? How to pick the right smart home platform for you
- From brilliant to basic, here are our smart home setups
- Google Home: How to start a smart home
- Apple Home: How to start a smart home
- Home Assistant: How to start a smart home
- Smart home security: your questions answered
There was a lot of drama at Reddit this week.
- More than 6,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s API changes
- Reddit starts crashing as subreddit blackout keeps growing
- Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
- Apollo’s developer on Reddit’s new API changes, and why users revolted
- Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’
- Reddit says it won’t force subreddits back open (but will it?)
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
- Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
- Three of the biggest Reddit communities now only feature John Oliver posts
Weekly Links 06.05–06.11
- Why Does Jack Nicholson Repeatedly Break the Fourth Wall in The Shining?
- Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
- Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
- Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO
- 1Password users can now preview passwordless sign-on technology
- The 2023 Food Photographer of the Year Awards
- WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
- Jeremy Keith — Reaction
- Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
- Marvel Snap adds a competitive ladder with new Conquest mode
- Star Wars: Outlaws is a new open-world Star Wars game from Ubisoft
Apple WWDC news
- Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air is the ‘world’s thinnest’
- Apple’s iOS 17 is official with better autocorrect and StandBy
- Apple’s new journaling app turns your iPhone into a digital diary
- Apple is changing the ‘Hey Siri’ trigger phrase to just ‘Siri’ in iOS 17
- Apple’s iPadOS 17 adds personalized lock screen and interactive widgets
- Apple announces macOS Sonoma with game mode and support for desktop widgets
- Apple announces widgets will return to watchOS 10 at WWDC
- FaceTime is coming to Apple TV with tvOS 17
- Standby is a new iOS 17 feature for your iPhone that could be great for Apple Home users
- Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
- Apple upgrades WebKit, adds new features to Safari
- Apple announces visionOS, the operating system for its Vision Pro headset
- Apple News Plus is getting crossword puzzles with iOS 17
- For better or worse, Apple is avoiding the AI hype train
- With iOS 17, Apple lets you share AirTags with friends and family
- iPadOS 17 finally supports external USB webcams and cameras
- Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
- Apple’s Journal app needs to read the room
- Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is a perfect response to slowing Mac revenue
- Apple TVs with tvOS 17 will get native VPN support
Weekly Links 05.29–06.04
- Mimestream review: this is the Mac app Gmail users need
- Windows 11 is adding a one-stop RGB lighting shop
- Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month
- Netflix might ruin password sharing for everyone
- Govee LED Strip Light M1 Matter review: A bright and colorful smart light that’s compatible with everything
- Opera is getting its own AI side panel to match Edge
- Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager
- Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games
- The Arc browser’s Boosts feature lets you change how any website looks
- Belkin’s fast-charging Apple Watch power bank might be witchcraft
- Walmart Onn Google TV box review: the best $20 deal in streaming
- Apple’s original cloud photo sync service shuts down this summer
- Wyze’s Cam Floodlight Pro lights up when it recognizes cars and people
- Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast
- Windows 11 gets some useful widgets for CPU, memory, and GPU monitoring
- Sony’s small but mighty XB100 speaker is cheerful and very cheap
- The unsung heroes of the Apple Watch are its hidden band release buttons
- A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
- Telly dual-screen TV first look: it’s free and may be the future
- Web Roulette — A Swipeable Randomized Web Browser
- Fighting Fascism in America
- Is Ozempic an Anti-Addiction Drug?
- Going to High School in an Old Department Store
- The Immaculate Copy of the Declaration of Independence Found Hidden Behind a $4 Flea Market Painting
- The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time
- Ze Frank on Slime Molds
- Penguins hire Kyle Dubas as President of Hockey Operations
Weekly Links 04.24–04.30
- Apple’s App Store can stay closed, but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals court
- Disneyland dragon catches fire during Fantasmic show
- WiZ smart lights are now Matter compatible
- Apple’s Weather chaos is restarting the weather app market — ForecastAdvisor
- Microsoft’s Phone Link app is now available for iOS so you can use iMessage from a PC
- Disney sues Florida for ‘government retaliation’ in escalating feud
- Pirating the Oscars 2023: The Final Curtain Call
- Apple’s Journaling App and Day One
- Microsoft is done with major Windows 10 updates
- Dallas Cowboys get Deuce Vaughn, son of team scout, in 6th round of NFL draft
Weekly Links 04.17–04.23
- Apple’s new savings account lets Card users grow their Daily Cash
- WB announces a Harry Potter Quidditch multiplayer game
- Google brings Matter support to its Nest Thermostat
- Panic says it’s sold more than 50,000 Playdate handhelds
- Prime Video adds new Dialogue Boost feature to make voices easier to hear
- Galaxy Quest, the best Star Trek movie, could be getting a TV series
- Apple’s HomePod and HomePod Mini can now listen for smoke alarms and send you an alert
- Netflix is shutting down its original DVD business after 25 years — I have fond memories of getting DVDs in the mail from Netflix.
- Netflix is out of the DVD business because streaming won – now, can Netflix still win?
- Netflix delays its password-sharing crackdown to sometime before July
- AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google
- Sonic The Hedgehog can actually spin in Lego’s new sets
- Voicemod now available on Mac with real-time AI voice changing and soundboards
- Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft
- Elon Musk removes Twitter’s ‘government-funded media’ labels after outlets flee the platform
- Disaster alert accounts are preparing for a world after Twitter
- Pocket City 2 is a mobile SimCity but better
- Apple is reportedly developing its own journaling app for the iPhone
- The Fictional Brands Archive
- How the Legendary Chuck Jones Became a Great Artist
- Wes Anderson’s Staged Re-Creations of Out of Sight, Armageddon, and The Truman Show for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards
- The End of Computer Magazines in America
- AMD is quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors
Weekly Links 01.23–01.29
- Twitter will stop forcing you onto its ‘For You’ timeline
- The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today
- Drop Sense75 review: a $350 keyboard without $350 of quality
- Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023) review: the core count grows
- Apple Mac Mini (2023) review: Mac Studio junior
- Sony’s DualSense Edge is a pro controller done (mostly) right
- Oscars 2023 nominations: everything, everywhere, all the noms
- Ivory 1.0 for iOS
- Dave Rupert — CSS Wishlist 2023
- LastPass owner GoTo shares more bad news about November’s security breach
- Windows 11’s File Explorer is getting a modern UI overhaul
- The Verge’s favorite desktop accessories
- The “Contagious Visual Blandness” of the Netflix Look
- The Minimalist Photography Awards for 2022
- Angry Miao’s quirky new keyboard saves space by using a touch panel for arrow keys
- 1982 TV News Report on Arcade Video Games
- Sunburn Photographic Printing
- This sick new desk from Steelcase costs almost $10,000 and might be worth it
Weekly Links 01.16–01.22
- AI-Generated Stills From a Movie That Doesn’t Exist: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1976 Version of ‘Tron’
- The Trio of Apps That Will Replace iTunes for Windows: Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Devices
- Chris Coyier — Farewell, An Event Apart
- Manhattan mourns loss of The Little Grill co-owner Kenrick Waite
- Dave Rupert — I’m Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing)
- Dave Rupert — Updates on my Bing ban
- Dave Rupert — My Bing Webmaster Guidelines Compliance Report
- Vegas goalie Lehner files for bankruptcy, cites $50M debt — “Lehner’s debts also included missed payments for a collection of rare snakes he purchased for $1.2 million”
- Drone Dives the Full Height of the Burj Khalifa
- Keychron cuts the cord on one of our favorite mechanical keyboards
- Apple announces a Mac Mini with the M2 and M2 Pro
- Apple announces MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips
- Wyze’s two new security cameras can be paired together for live multiview streaming
- The Google Home app’s new TV remote adds volume and play controls
- Neck exercises (neck-xercises) for gamers
- An obsessive gamer’s guide to chronic pain peripherals
- Four Failures of Productivity (and how to solve them)
- How to Get Back 7 Hours per Week
- How to Build a Journaling Habit that Lasts
- Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile
- Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America
- Firefox found a way to keep ad-blockers working with Manifest V3
- Logitech’s new $69.99 webcam is a stylish alternative to its aging C920s
- What’s on your desk, Tom Warren?
- Apple is turning on the HomePod Mini’s secret temperature and humidity sensor
- Here’s how the HomePod Mini’s new bundle of features work
- Amazon is closing its AmazonSmile charity platform
- Reed Hastings is stepping down as Netflix’s co-CEO
- Netflix’s paid password sharing to roll out ‘more broadly’ in the coming months
- Microsoft has copied the best Windows audio app
- Three attributes for better web forms
- Penguins’ P.O. Joseph, Sens’ Mathieu Joseph leave ice together
- Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot
- Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules
- Twitterrific: End of an Era
Weeknotes 12.12–12.19
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Weeknotes 10.24–10.30
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