From The Verge: "Apple has resumed selling the latest Apple Watches on its website after a [U.S.] federal appeals court paused a sales and import ban." Here’s more, including when the watches will be available in physical stores. https://flip.it/2xa1We #Tech#Apple#AppleWatch#TheVerge
From The Verge: From massive roleplaying games to soothing cleaning simulators, here’s a list of 10 great Xbox Game Pass games that are well worth your time over the holidays. https://flip.it/Jq02i- #Tech#Technology#Gaming#TheVerge#Xbox
@dangillmor@verge The great irony of #TheVerge’s #Twitter / #X content is how they remain tacitly deeply committed to it as a social media platform, even while constantly reporting on its continual slide into rent-seeking debravity.
And I geddit, not many other places ready for “prime-time” media yet, and I’ve been glad to see them start to cross post all their content here, and they have plenty of staff with accounts here as well (if they’re often quiet), but over all of that, they still have all the X buttons on every page. Add a mastodon button!
#TheVerge has a grossly over-designed deep dive into the death of #Twitter, but the content in it is quite good. This in particular is absolutely worth the time to read:
Let's begin a campaign to have news online sources STOP USING Xitter. HuffPo not only has links to xitter, but fills its articles with xitter post embedding. The Verge, too many.
Please call for news orgs to STOP embedding, stop linking, remove xitter badges from aerticles and site Maps.
"How tall are we talking here? According to the IIHS, the average US passenger vehicle has gotten about four inches wider, 10 inches longer, eight inches taller, and 1,000 pounds heavier over the past 30 years. Many vehicles are more than 40 inches tall at the leading edge of the hood. And on some large pickups, the hoods are almost at eye level for many adults."
Elizabeth Lopatto, a reporter for @verge has sat in the courtroom every day of Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud trial and thought “Surely things cannot get worse for this man.” Instead, Lopatto has come to this conclusion: Sam Bankman-Fried is doomed. Only she used a different word. https://flip.it/OFx8aS #Tech#Technology#TheVerge#SBF#FTX
My best friend said he went to #GalaxysEdge and now I'm slightly jealous lol
And I'm not even a big #StarWars fan I just think it's cool that #Disney literally built #Westworld for #StarWars fans (and with real people of course)
I’m happy to see more automation-friendly smart home stuff, but I went down the #HomeAssistant rabbit hole this year and am not tempted to look back. 😅
"Comedy Bang! Bang! host Scott Aukerman, where he notes that podcasts stand out because so much of entertainment today is prescripted. Podcasts are rare in that you can hear people laugh and 'be joyful in the moment'."
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks | #TheVerge
#TwitterBlue, which #ElonMusk is currently rebranding to €X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious #BlueCheckmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for #Twitter and avoid memes about how “this mf paid for twitter.”