- 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: smart home
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 05.08–05.14
- Lego’s Tales of the Space Age set is now available for $49.99
- Discord’s username changes have gamers rising up concerns
- Gateway 14 review: it’s blue!
- Will Google announce a Nest Hub update at I/O?
- Peridot review: Niantic’s pet game is a next-gen Tamagotchi
- Matt Birchler’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- ☠️ WordPress to Twitter
- Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features
- Google’s new Home app is now rolling out to everyone
- Disney will bring Hulu content into Disney Plus and raise its ad-free prices
- WiZ’s motion sensing smart lights can now monitor your home
- The Whimsical Fellowship, Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings
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 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