Vox

JANUARY 4, 2024

Every new year brings with it a gaggle of writers, analysts, and gamblers trying to tell the future. When it comes to tech news, that used to amount to some bloggers guessing what the new iPhone would look like. . | Moor Studio/Getty Images AI will change the world this year. We just don’t know how yet.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple’s WWDC 2020 was unique before it even began. It’s the first time Apple’s developer conference has been streamed exclusively online with no in-person event. Regardless, there were some big announcements, including some you might have been expecting and others that might catch you by surprise.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The two tech leaders, who didn’t exactly have the most amicable split , joked and reminisced together as guests on “The Good Time Show,” which is hosted by the tech wife and husband team of Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan. And so, I still can’t live down this Clippy thing. ‘Say the words!'

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Vox

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Silicon Valley was an early leader in psychedelic research in the 1960s, helping shape an enduring narrative about the ties between tech innovation and drug use. Getty Images Sure, Elon Musk’s into ketamine and Peter Thiel has his doping Olympics, but drugs and tech are nothing new. But do you agree with that?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft’s annual developer conference has officially kicked off, the first yearly developer conference in the consumer tech world we’ve experienced online. The others are Google I/O and Apple’s WWDC. Do Microsoft’s presenters actually call themselves that? But Microsoft did make impactful news yesterday.

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Vox

AUGUST 4, 2023

A scene from “Joan is Awful,” the first episode of the newest season of Black Mirror. Netflix A chat with Charlie Brooker about AI, creativity, and why tech can be like growing an extra limb. Since then, we’ve had a real reckoning about tech — or, at a minimum, our views about tech have gotten much more complicated.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But when she was starting to build her new venture, a personal assistant service called Yohana that launched in September , her thoughts did not immediately turn to robots or artificial intelligence. When she picked up the phone, the foundation asked, “Are you holding anything fragile in your hand?”

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

If at first you don’t succeed, try try try try try again Pop quiz: what’s the biggest video website on the internet? Everybody’s answer is different, but I bet most people’s first answer isn’t YouTube. When it comes to consumer tech, social networking, messaging, music streaming, and television top the list.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2021

But when she was starting to build her new venture, a personal assistant service called Yohana that launched in September , her thoughts did not immediately turn to robots or artificial intelligence. When she picked up the phone, the foundation asked, “Are you holding anything fragile in your hand?” ” and she said, “Yes.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2023

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Hype Aviation , a news aggregation site that you might think of as Techmeme for aviation, space and defense news. Todd Bishop: Robin, can you tell us the backstory? Because you started this before you met Isaac. But I wanted to do something else.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

If you weren’t watching tech news yesterday, you missed an entire afternoon’s worth of cramming handfuls of popcorn in your mouth as you stared wide-eyed at the screen wondering what madness was coming next. Expect a long discussion on The Vergecast and articles from reporters on our tech and gaming crews.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Last week I wrote that Apple seemed “astonishingly confident” in its new M1-based Macs. I reviewed the MacBook Air , Nilay Patel reviewed the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro , and Chris Welch reviewed the new Mac mini. And the fact that Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer doesn’t cause slowdown or bugs for legacy apps.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Our new documentary now streaming on your TV You may have read on the site that Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn has been working on a documentary called Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone. It’s about a company called Handspring working on, you guessed it, a very early smartphone. That’s right.

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Vox

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Apple’s privacy-friendly ad business is also an antitrust avoidance strategy. Have you noticed there are more ads on your iPhone this year? You aren’t wrong — there are. Hope you don’t mind, because in 2023 there may be even more of them, and in more places. Apple framed it as a pro-consumer privacy measure.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

There were three or four pieces of news that were all harbingers of future products that you might use in conjunction with an Android phone. Next, we got the announcement of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 4100 processors, which will feature much-needed improvements for the next Wear OS watches. It’s a thing.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Twitter launched its new subscription product, Twitter Blue , in the US this week — it’s a $2.99 Ad-Free Articles (a take on Scroll, for articles you click through on Twitter). It doesn’t take much time using Twitter to realize that the ability to quickly fix a typo would be a nice thing to have.

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Today, Samsung is going to announce a giant pile of new gadgets. Here’s what to expect : Two Note 20 phones, a couple of Tab S7 Android tablets, a new Galaxy Watch, and Galaxy Ear Buds Live. Late breaking rumors say we should expect “ some real hype s**t ” about the design. The Galaxy Z Fold 2, from a leak | Evan Blass.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“We all agree that we are here at Apple to make insanely great products that enrich people’s lives and the world,” they wrote. “We Two weeks earlier, Cook had announced that after a difficult year working remotely, Apple was reopening its offices. Not everyone is afraid that their boss at Apple is going to fire them.”.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Do older people needed their own dedicated devices? As boomers age, a new crop of iPads and Alexas are popping up. The poem said, ‘You can do it, just keep trying,’” Dezern continued. She said soothing things to me. ElliQ doesn’t say, ‘Would you like to listen to music?’ Do you want to play a game together?’

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images. Apple has released public betas for the next big Apple Watch and Mac software updates. On the Mac, Big Sur (as the OS is called) has a ton of visual differences that I think will grow on you — they make macOS look just a little more like iOS.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s the one you should get unless you’re waiting for the Max or mini More than most years, there are a lot of things that are new in the iPhone 12. Apple has loaded in the usual upgrades like a faster processor and improved camera, but that’s something we’ve come to expect. I love the new design for the iPhone 12.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The next Seattle mayor will take over a city going through historic transitions — from a pandemic shutdown to the oscillating reopening; from working at work to working from home; and from a city awash in new residents with money to a city left with a massive homelessness crisis. Watch the videos below to see the full interviews.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Scott Galloway, serial entrepreneur, podcast host and NYU marketing professor, surveys and predicts the impact of the pandemic on the economy and society in his new book, “Post Corona.” You revisit this in your new book, “Post Corona.” Oh, wait, what are we doing at home? Decade of growth.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. Another highly ranked question asked, “How will we meaningfully put safety, integrity, and responsibility first in the Metaverse? Courtesy of Meta. It’s the next big breakthrough in technology. It’s a joke. It’s a marketing strategy.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the things that usually happens at CES in Las Vegas is you get a sense that one company or another is really going hard. One company seemed to be doing its very best to try, though: TCL. Second, we have a new newsletter! You can subscribe here. Image: TCL.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

An interview on Decoder with Nilay Patel The holiday season is always huge for gaming, but this year, it’s even bigger: a new console generation has arrived with Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X / S and the Sony PS5 , and gaming itself has gotten even more enmeshed in mainstream culture during the pandemic. I do, yeah.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

If you ask Jimmy Bailey what killed his best friend Mark Calivas, his answer is simple: “It was Apple.” How else could he explain how the Apple Store wellness champion — known for evangelizing therapy and mental health — would slide into a depression so profound he’d be forced to take medical leave and ultimately die by suicide?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

First announced at Apple’s WWDC earlier this year , Siri has now landed on Ecobee SmartThermostats. The Apple voice assistant arrives via a free software update allowing you to say “Hey Siri” to the thermostat to set the temperature, send an intercom message, and use all of Siri’s smart speaker features.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon wants its corporate and tech employees back in the office at least three days per week, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to workers on Friday. The Seattle-based tech giant previously said in October 2021 that it was leaving back-to-office decisions up to individual team leaders.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

New cars, old cars, weird cars: he drives them, pushes all the buttons, and tells you about their quirks and features, a phrase that is now inextricably linked to Doug in the car community. I think the answers to all of that will surprise you. And you run Cars and Bids, a car auction website. Welcome to Decoder.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

Apple is also chasing after this idea, and may finally unveil a new headset to make it happen this spring. Even if the real-world metaverse doesn’t pan out, Stephenson has had an enormous influence on how we think about tech today. You know, maybe people are actually taking this seriously.” What do you make of that?

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

Spotify’s chief legal officer on tech’s ‘ruthless bully’ This week I’m talking to Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs and chief legal officer of Spotify, to help me understand why Spotify and so many other app developers are so frustrated with Apple. Because if you can’t make that case, then aren’t we just moving money around?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, if your current iPhone is still in good shape, you may be wondering about what to do with it. Should you sell it? This guide will walk you through the process of preparing your old phone, and what your best alternatives are for disposing of it. Are you transferring to a new iPhone?

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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2021

With new rules for tighter consumer privacy protection looming, freshly appointed chief privacy officers often lacked tools to manage enormous amounts of sensitive data scattered across siloed departments, with some still using spreadsheets to manually store passwords and social security numbers. GeekWire: You immigrated to the U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

30 percent is unconscionable,” says Congressman David Cicilline Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully, according to the chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee. There’s been rumbling discontent from developers about how Apple runs the iPhone App Store for years now, but the Hey situation has brought it to startling light.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you spend any time online, you already know this. That’s the business model of Big Tech. A new book by the British journalist Johann Hari, called Stolen Focus , takes a close look at what’s happening — and what’s happened — to our collective attention. I could do them, but they were getting harder and harder.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

One day you’re writing about internal dissent over the company’s ability to uproot influence campaigns and election interference ; the very next, you’re watching a live stream of the same company’s foray into virtual reality helmets and designer mixed reality glasses. I don’t know how many times in my career I will be able to do this.

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