- 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
Tag: smart home
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 03.27–04.02
- iOS 16.4 is here, and it brings new emoji like a moose and goose to your iPhone
- Arc’s mobile browser is here — but it’s not trying to replace Safari and Chrome yet
- Apple Music Classical is now available from the App Store
- Amazon to flag ‘frequently returned’ products you maybe shouldn’t buy
- Hidden Systems is a book that could teach your kids how the internet works
- Finally, a Logitech name-brand headset for little school kids
- Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
- Philips Hue’s Matter update has been delayed
- The Home Assistant SkyConnect is a combination Zigbee and Thread dongle for better smart home control
Weekly Links 03.13–03.19
- Oscars 2023 winners: Everything Everywhere All at Once did the thing many times over
- SodaStream is a bad deal, and modding your own is better
- The shift to EVs is slowly killing off AM radio — and that’s bad for emergency broadcasts
- Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
- Keychron Q1 Pro review: they actually pulled it off
- Microsoft Edge now has a Bing AI chatbot sidebar
- Carrot Weather update introduces snarky chatbot based on ChatGPT
- LinkedIn is adding AI tools for generating profile and job descriptions
- Belkin’s smart home brand Wemo is backing away from Matter
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 01.02–01.08
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №24
- Senators nod to fan Ryan Reynolds with Deadpool mask
- Microsites in Drupal
- Farewell to 3G
- Bring back personal blogging
- Winners of the 2022 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
- Hugh Jackman begs Oscar voters not to honor Ryan Reynolds before Deadpool 3
- FIFA 23 players find Ryan Reynolds Easter eggs in the commentary
- The biggest new movies coming out in 2023
- Polygon’s 50 most anticipated games of 2023
- NHL All-Star Game 2023: Rosters, schedule, how to watch
- NHL All-Star snubs and names to know for next year
- SwitchBot’s new hub will support Matter
- Nanoleaf’s new light switches will learn when you need them
- Nanoleaf’s new lighting kits sync up with the action on your TV
- Drop’s desktop computer speakers are tempting me to ditch the headset
- Looney Tunes and The Flintstones are the latest victims of the HBO Max purge
- More than 200 million Twitter users’ email addresses leaked by hackers
- The PS5 shortage is over, says PlayStation boss
- The Winners of the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Awards
- Lego’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
- How Spider-Verse Is Leading the Shift Away from “The Pixar Look”
- The Best Movie Posters of 2022
- You Suck at Cooking
- In Perfect Unison
Podcasts
- Syntax — 546: Code Styles × Readable Rules and Petty Preferences
- Syntax — 551: “Serverless” Databases
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Trivia, Food History, and YAML
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: More Holiday Trivia and Tech Interviews
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Trivia Continued and Web Developer Tools
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Treats, Final Holiday Trivia, and Quantum Computing
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