- 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: Microsoft
Weekly Links 06.19–06.25
- The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project
- Visual Editing Comes To The Headless CMS
- Municipal broadband is breaking Big Telecom’s hold on the internet
- The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
- Jeremy Keith — Button types
- Pollution from gas stoves can be worse than secondhand smoke
- Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them
- What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout
- Reddit is about to get a little less accessible
- Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest
- DPReview isn’t being shut down thanks to new ownership
- Super Mario RPG is getting a remake for Nintendo Switch
- Opera launches revamped browser equipped with an AI sidekick
- Adobe XD is on life support ahead of Figma acquisition
- Five AI tools creators should know
- The FTC’s case against Microsoft could turn into Xbox vs. PlayStation
- Sony’s PlayStation chief privately said Microsoft’s Activision deal wasn’t about Xbox exclusives
- Bethesda’s Indiana Jones game is exclusive to Xbox and PC
- Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation
- Across the Spider-Verse’s animators allegedly worked under unsustainable conditions
- Secret Invasion studio under fire for AI art says ‘no artists’ jobs’ were lost
- Chris Coyier — sizes=auto is a great idea
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 05.01–05.07
- The Galactic Menagerie, Wes Anderson’s Star Wars
- The future of streaming is free ad-supported TV and movies
- These are the FAST services you need to know about
- The best part of FAST TV is the choice it takes away
- Forget ad-supported streaming — here come the ad-supported TVs
- The Verge’s favorite Stream Deck hacks
- How a cleaning app tricked me into taking care of myself
- Hollywood writers to strike over low wages caused by streaming boom
- Netflix Condemns WGA Strike For Putting Future Show Cancellations Behind Schedule
- The Kidnappers Foil, the Most Remade Movie in History
- You Can Register Domain Names in iOS’s iCloud Settings
- 9 wild Disney conspiracy theories that will never die
- Nanoleaf Essentials Matter smart lights review: A better bulb
- Using Arc Boosts to identify bots in Elk
- Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
- AMD makes Ryzen 7840U official, claims it can beat Apple M2
- The new Pokémon Trading Card Game app is finally launching this June
- Google is replacing Chrome’s misleading lock icon
- Discord is making all users pick a new username
- A Collection of Sci-Fi Movie Logos
- The Browser Company Is Building a Swift Development Toolchain for Windows
- ‘Nice Twitter Handle You Have There. Would Be a Real Shame if Something Happened to It.’
- Microsoft Teams is getting animated backgrounds for your meetings
- The Google Home app is finally getting garage door controls
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 03.20–03.26
- 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
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 02.13–02.19
- 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