- Fanatics replacing Adidas as the NHL’s official uniform partner
- Valve announces Counter-Strike 2, a free replacement for CS:GO
- The Internet Archive defends its digital library in court March 20th
- Microsoft’s Bing chatbot now lets you create images via OpenAI’s DALL-E
- Amazon is shutting down DPReview, the go-to camera reviews website
- You can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor with futuristic Office documents
- You might want to get your Mondo posters while you still can
- Roger Deakins Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films
- Amélie Was Actually a KGB Spy
- The Assassin’s Teapot
- The best video games of 2023 so far on Switch, PC, PS5, Xbox, and more
Tag: gaming
Weekly Links 03.06–03.12
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is reportedly getting a major update soon
- Love Letters from Letterboxd
- Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
- Sony releases new PS5 update with Discord integration, 1440p improvements, and more
- How to use sleep tech to become an early bird
- Disney’s largely forgotten wartime shorts, ranked
- Vinyl overtakes CD sales for the first time since 1987
Weekly Links 02.27–03.05
- Setting Up a New(ish) MacBook
- Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren’s Beatty’s ‘Dick Tracy’
- WSJ: ‘A Lab Leak in China Most Likely Origin of Covid Pandemic, Energy Department Says’
- The Last 55 Years of Best Cinematography Oscar Winners
- American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces
- New Ukrainian Postage Stamp Features Banksy Art and Says “FCK PTN”
- The best discard decks in Marvel Snap and how to play them
- Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar
- Microsoft’s Phone Link app now lets you use iMessage from your PC
- LastPass reveals attackers stole password vault data by hacking an employee’s home computer
- Google’s Chrome browser now squeezes more battery life out of MacBooks
- Dave Rupert — GameDev Journal №1: Otis’s Zelda-like
- A Native “Visually Hidden” in CSS? Yes Please!
- Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff
- A Movie Trailer Editor Deconstructs Iconic Trailers
- Disney’s Haunted Mansion remake lives up to its name in new teaser trailer
- A GOP plan to ban TikTok nationwide advances out of committee
- Movies Anywhere is ending its movie sharing and Watch Together features
Weekly Links 02.20–02.26
- Introducing Day One on the Web
- The internet has broken gift giving
- Google Chrome’s latest version includes tools to address its memory hog problem
- The Supreme Court is deciding the future of the internet, and it acted like it
- The best PS5 SSDs
- The Most Iconic Song in Cartoon History
- 2023 Oscars Visual Effects Nominees Showcase
- You can now play the original Half-Life with beautiful beams of ray-traced light
Weekly Links 02.13–02.19
- Jeremy Keith — Home stream
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №25
- Jon Hicks — Fiddling makes me happy
- Warren Beatty returns as Dick Tracy in a sequel to one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen
- Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first
- Happy Valentine’s Day: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer divorce is complete
- Super Bowl LVII was the most-streamed Super Bowl yet
- Tweetbot’s creators added an edit button to their Mastodon client
- Plex makes it easier to skip movie and TV show credits
- The Winners of the 2023 Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition
- PSVR 2 review: love on a leash
- Brad Frost — Thanks, An Event Apart
- A new mainline Civilization game is in development at Firaxis
- Ikea’s new air quality monitor lets you keep an eye on pollutants in your home
- iOS 16.4 will let web apps on your homescreen send push notifications
- Apple’s new iOS 16.4 developer beta includes new emoji, web app notifications, and more
- Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication
- How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends
Weekly Links 02.06–02.12
- Jaromir Jagr scores record 1,099th goal at almost 51
- Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’
- Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
- Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing is open for everyone to try starting today
- Elon Musk says bots with ‘good content’ can use Twitter’s API for free
- Twitter can now default to the ‘Following’ timeline on iOS and Android
- AMC is about to make paying for theater seats more like booking an airline ticket
- Samsung’s SmartThings Station is a smart home hub worth plugging in
- OnePlus’ first mechanical keyboard looks like a rebadged Keychron
- Drop’s latest Lord of the Rings keyboard wants us to give Mordor a chance
- Shift Happens celebrates 150 years of typewriters, keyboards, and the people who use them
- Analogue opens up final preorders for its beautiful takes on the Sega Genesis and SNES
- “2001: A Space Odyssey” Directed by George Lucas
- HBO’s Gritty Prestige TV Adaptation of Mario Kart
- Lord of the Rings comes to Lego with this massively detailed Rivendell set
- LeBron James Breaks Kareem’s All-Time NBA Scoring Record
- Disney removes Simpsons episode in Hong Kong that references Chinese labor camps
- Disney’s laying off 7,000 as streaming boom comes to an end
- 1Password is trying for zero passwords
- Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’
- Windows 11 will soon control your RGB lighting for PC gaming accessories
- Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar
- CatGPT
- Penguins’ Sidney Crosby picks up 1st game misconduct of career
Weekly Links 01.30–02.05
- How to use the Apple HomePod’s temperature and humidity sensors
- Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown
- Zeldman — Twitter Blue
- Free access to the Twitter API is ending:
- FTC fines GoodRx $1.5 million for sending consumer health data to Google and Facebook
- It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
- Dave Rupert — SOLVED! The Case of the Bing Ban Theory
- A remastered version of Myst is coming to iOS
- Alex Ovechkin, son share ‘special’ All-Star moment with Sidney Crosby
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
Weekly Links 01.09–01.15
- Penguins make pit stop in Montreal on way home from road trip to show support for Kris Letang
- Simple Type Co. and Grandsans
- Pokémon Squishmallows to be released in February following Walmart confusion — My kids love Pokémon and Squishmallows, but I’m guessing there would be a fight over who gets the Pikachu one.
- Visiting Super Nintendo World felt like being inside a Mario game
- Disney’s Magical Companion debuts at CES with some help from Amazon
- MSI says Afterburner isn’t abandoned, despite its developer’s doubts
- England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
- Adactio — Five websites
- Your desk is probably too tall for you — here’s how to fix it
- Marvel Snap PvP mode drops very soon
- 2023 Golden Globes: the complete list of winners
- Top 10 Title Sequences of 2022
- HTML with Superpowers: The Guidebook
- Some third-party Twitter apps appear to be broken
- The End May Be Nigh for Third-Party Twitter Clients
- State of the Twitterverse