- Always Worth a Look: the AIGA’s Best Book Covers of the Year
- Striking Vintage Calculators
- Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now
- Red Dead Redemption rerelease comes to Switch and PS4 August 17th
- Ikea actually got a decent grade for its sustainable shipping goals
- Zoom wants its remote work company to come back to the office
- Apple Music launches a Discovery Station to help you find new songs
- Sony is now streaming PS5 games at 4K over the internet in public beta
- The $219 WiiM Pro Plus brings your hi-fi setup into the streaming age
- The first PCIe Gen 5 drives are here and fast, but do you have a need for speed?
- Slack’s redesign: new DM and Activity sections and more features in the messaging app
- Threads is getting some useful new features
- You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon
- Disney is ‘actively exploring’ ways to crack down on password sharing
- Disney Plus and Hulu are about to get even more expensive
- Lego’s new $200 Concorde is a fantastic homage to the supersonic passenger jet
- Quake II is getting the remaster treatment
- Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11
- Apple’s old iTunes Movie Trailers app is still here but not for long
- Is this the PS5 Slim?
Tag: PlayStation
Weekly Links 06.26–07.02
- 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
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 05.29–06.04
- 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 04.03–04.09
- The Joy of Fortnite
- Microsoft Teams now has a green screen feature to make virtual backgrounds better
- Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) a file creation limit for all users
- Google Flights’ price guarantee could pay you back if your tickets get cheaper
- Harry Potter could be rebooted for the small screen
- Why do websites have so many pop-ups?
- Disney is in a land war with the state of Florida
- Song of the South’s racist legacy and Disney’s quiet reboot, explained
- How Tweetbot died (and lived again)
- Notion Quick Capture Hacks
- Why Lego Won
- Wikimapia — Putnam Hall — “Putnam Hall was the birthplace of the FatLan Lan Party.”
- Day One, Obsidian, and my months-long search for a private, personal place on the internet
- Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
- Netlify Drop — Drag and drop websites.
- Journaling for Anxiety: How it Works and Why it Helps
- Microsoft Edge launches Workspaces test that lets you share browser tabs
- Counter-Strike 2 is getting Nvidia’s latency-reducing Reflex tech
- Microsoft’s rolling out Edge’s AI image generator to everyone
- 11 ways to power up your gaming on your PS5
- Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe
- The Best Clicky Switches For Your Keyboard
- The Best Mechanical Keyboard Switch for Typing!
- McDavid becomes 1st player in 27 years to surpass 150 points
- Penguins’ Sidney Crosby because 15th to 1,500 career points
- Meet the Oakland Guy Making Fun of Your Favorite California Punk Bands
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 02.20–02.26
- 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 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