The future of podcasts is getting written in print

Image: Good Tape / Dane Cardiel This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. --- Hope everyone is well rested after the holiday weekend. Today, I have a Q&A with two of the founders behind Good Tape, a new biannual print magazine that is aiming to tell the untold stories within the podcast industry. The publication hopes to feature a mix of journalism and cultural criticism about audio storytelling — with a focus on lesser-known creators and independent modes of production. The first issue is scheduled to be released in the fall. There are precious few outlets focused on the podcast industry (this obviously being one of them), so I wanted to find out what the founders hope Good Tape can add to the current… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/PzRqOvH via Grabey
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The System Shock remake is a delightful surprise

POV: You are a pathetic creature of meat and bone. | Nightdive Studios Welcome to my death machine, interloper. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/SiwOJyg via Grabey
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The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that don’t play anything

I swear, this is a screenshot of an actual YouTube video. | Image: David Pierce The video’s title is, for once on YouTube, pretty straightforward: “24 hours + of pure black screen in HD!” Leaving aside the questions about the difference between standard- and high-def pure black screens, the video does what it says on the tin. Hit play, and you get more than 24 hours — 24 hours, one minute, 27 seconds, to be exact — of black screen and silence. It’s like turning off your computer, without turning off your computer. This video has 40.2 million views. The first time I watched it, I assumed there was a joke or a Rick Roll or something in there somewhere and watched an upsettingly long time to find it. Nothing. So I figured it was a bit. Fun meta-commentary about the drivel people choose to watch! Most commenters seemed… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/mTDMHr9 via Grabey
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How to watch Nvidia’s Computex 2023 keynote (and what to expect)

Image: Future Publishing via Getty Images Computex, one of the biggest trade shows of the year for the laptop and PC space, begins in a couple of days. A number of companies will have big announcements, but the most anticipated event of the week is Nvidia’s keynote, which will open the show on Monday morning. The keynote speaker will be Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang, who — in case you missed it — added $7 billion to his net worth a few days ago following the company’s massive Q1 earnings report. Nvidia hasn’t publicly released much information about the topics Huang will cover; Computex revealed that the talk would include “advanced developments in the fields of accelerated computing and artificial intelligence.” Needless to say, we expect AI to feature heavily…. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/yN2Gfn5 via Grabey
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The wildest Tears of the Kingdom builds we’ve seen

Image: Nintendo The most enjoyable aspect of Tears of the Kingdom for me right now isn’t so much my own adventures in the game. It’s watching other people far more creative and patient than I am craft the most ridiculous mind-, physics-, and decency-bending machines ever made in a video game. We’re already seeing players craft fire-spouting robots, elaborate murder contraptions that would make Wile E. Coyote exceedingly jealous, and, more wholesomely, horse car washes and baby swings. Here are some of our favorites. @foozology Ganondorf may be the Demon King but im the King of Demons #totk #zelda #link #ganondorf #America #b2 #stealthbomber #oil #switch ♬ Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival This is the most American thing to ever… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/avPet5j via Grabey
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All our burning Qs about PlayStation’s Project Q

Image: Sony On Wednesday, Sony announced perhaps its weirdest gadget in a while: Project Q, a handheld device designed solely to play games streamed from your PS5. It’s basically an 8-inch LCD screen with the two halves of a DualSense grafted to the sides, and it will be able to play games from your PS5 at up to 1080p and 60fps over Wi-Fi via Remote Play. It’s supposed to launch later this year. That’s pretty much all Sony said about the device during its PlayStation Showcase. If you’re anything like The Verge’s newsroom, you might still have a lot of questions, so we wrote some out. (Some are less serious than others.) And let us know your questions in the comments! * Exactly when will it come out? (Reportedly November, but we’d like the official… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/7bjPfo3 via Grabey
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The best smartwatches for Android users

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge WearOS is much better than it used to be, so there’s never been a better time to consider a smartwatch. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/jYS4W2Q via Grabey
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — all the latest on Nintendo’s huge sequel

Link in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. | Image: Nintendo Going deep on the biggest game of the year with analysis, interviews, and the wildest builds. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/WKq59rX via Grabey
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TikTok sues Montana over controversial state ban

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge On Monday, TikTok sued Montana over a new law that would ban the app statewide next year. The lawsuit comes less than a week after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed SB 419, the first state bill to ban the popular video app. The law, set to go into effect January 2024, would prohibit TikTok from operating “within the territorial jurisdiction of Montana” and would force mobile app stores to make the app unavailable for download within the state. “We are challenging Montana’s unconstitutional TikTok ban to protect our business and the hundreds of thousands of TikTok users in Montana,” Brooke Oberwetter, TikTok spokesperson, said in a statement Monday. “We believe our legal challenge will prevail based on an exceedingly strong set of… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/LcSFiZz via Grabey
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Pac-Man is the latest video game classic to be lovingly recreated in Lego

Lego’s new Pac-Man set. | Image: Lego Lego has announced a new premium set based on 1980s arcade classic Pac-Man. The 2,650-piece set is designed to recreate a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, complete with an illuminating coin-slot, four-way joystick, and a mechanical chase. There’s a crank on the side of the cabinet which you can turn to move the characters around the game’s maze, and the set comes with a diorama of a figurine playing a smaller version of the arcade cabinet. On top of the cabinet sit rotating versions of Pac-Man and the ghosts Blinky and Clyde. Image: LegoTurning a small crank makes the characters move around the ‘screen.’ Image: LegoThere’s even an illuminating coin-slot. The Lego Icons Pac-Man set will… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/DAkSKOl via Grabey
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Instagram was down, but now it’s working again

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For a couple of hours on sunday evening, Instagram was down. The app’s feed was frozen, tossing users errors saying that it couldn’t refresh, while the website gave only a blank page. According to the outage tracker DownDetector, the first reports of trouble started a few minutes after 6PM ET before spiking to over 175,000 reports at its peak, but by 7:30PM ET, the issue appears to have been resolved and it’s working again. In an email to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold acknowledged the outage, saying, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.” Given the timing, the outage quicly surfaced as a… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/UF5tP47 via Grabey
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Xgimi MoGo 2 Pro Android TV projector review: automatic entertainment

An all-in-one portable projector that also doubles as a Bluetooth speaker. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/gZawbyQ via Grabey
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This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

Image: Lia Haberman We finally have an idea of what Instagram’s rumored text-based Twitter competitor might look and feel like, as reported by Lia Haberman, who shared in her ICYMI Substack newsletter what appears to be a leaked marketing slide and details about the app. The slide doesn’t give the app a separate name — instead, it just calls it “Instagram’s new text-based app for conversations” — but the app is apparently codenamed P92 or, alternately, Barcelona, according to Haberman. Users will be able to sign in with their Instagram username and password, and your followers, handle, bio, and verification will transfer over from the main app. Based on a (somewhat blurry) example I got, Meta’s new app looks a lot like Twitter. So, could this take over… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/Ra71Bvx via Grabey
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Apple TV finally gets multiview for live sports

Image: Apple Apple TV is finally giving users the ability to watch multiple live sports games at once. On Thursday, Apple announced that Apple TV 4K devices now let you watch up to four Major League Soccer or Friday Night Baseball games on the Apple TV app. The feature will come in handy if two of your favorite teams are playing at the same time and you don’t want to keep flipping back and forth between games. Once you choose the games you want to watch, Apple will let you customize your viewing layout with multiple options, allowing you to enlarge one match while keeping the others small. You can also opt to watch two to four games in a split-screen layout, as well as toggle audio preferences. Apple says MLS 360 and MLB Big Inning support multiview,… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/y2oXFlg via Grabey
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Here are the best Kindle deals right now

The latest Kindle Paperwhite is on sale at Amazon with a power adapter and a fabric cover starting at $169.97. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge When it comes to finding a device to use to read your ebooks, you have a few options to choose from. You can always buy a tablet or use your phone, but those devices are multipurpose and can be used for a ton of things, like surfing the web or doom-scrolling on Twitter. If you are looking for something to strictly read books, e-readers, while niche, are designed to store all of your books in a virtual library with limited functionality. Amazon, one of the pioneers of the e-reader, has dominated the space for years with its ever-expanding Kindle lineup, which consists of several unique models with their own pros and cons. The bulk of the devices function as simple ebook readers; however, with the Kindle Scribe, Amazon looks to be moving… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/PpEQ1q6 via Grabey
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Here are the best iPad deals right now

Select iPad models go on sale quite regularly. | Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge While the best iPad deals come around during major sale events like Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Amazon Prime Day, you can still find plenty of great discounts at all times of the year if you know where to look. Whether you’re after the high-end iPad Pro or the most affordable entry-level iPad, there’s likely a sale going on somewhere that you may be interested in. Of course, it’s difficult to know exactly where you can find the most notable deals unless you’re scouring the major retailers on a daily basis. But that’s often what our deal hunters at The Verge are doing each and every day, so let us help you out. Below, we’ve listed the best deals you can get on each iPad model that is currently available, including the latest ones… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/XOvWUHi via Grabey
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Elon Musk is stuck with his ‘Twitter sitter’ after court rejects bid to toss SEC settlement

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk’s so-called Twitter sitter is here to stay. A federal appeals court rejected Musk’s bid to toss or modify his 2018 fraud settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, leaving in place a consent decree that requires his tweets to be approved by a lawyer before he can post them. Given the frequency and volume of Musk’s tweets — and the fact that he now owns Twitter — it’s unclear whether Musk is abiding by the order to have the Twitter sitter review his tweets. But his argument that the SEC was exploiting the consent decree “to conduct bad-faith, harassing investigations of his protected speech” was found to be meritless by the court, according to a ruling released today. The court notes that, to the contrary, the… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/GnCUvtk via Grabey
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Google’s AI tools embrace the dream of Clippy

Microsoft’s Clippy sits atop its paper throne. | Image: Microsoft The words “it looks like you’re writing a letter, would you like some help with that?” didn’t appear at any point during Google’s recent demo of its AI office suite tools. But as I watched Aparna Pappu, Google’s Workspace leader, outline the feature onstage at I/O, I was reminded of a certain animated paperclip that another tech giant once hoped would help usher in a new era of office work. Even Microsoft would acknowledge that Clippy’s legacy is not wholly positive, but the virtual assistant is forever associated with a particular period of work — one packed to the brim with laborious emails, clip art, and beige computers with clunking hard drives. Now, work has changed — it’s Slack pings, text cursors jostling in a Google Doc, and… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/6SGnRqO via Grabey
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Can Google’s Pixel Fold really hang?

For US buyers, the Pixel Fold is the first credible alternative to Samsung’s Galaxy Fold series. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google’s debut foldable makes a strong first impression. But if recent Pixels are anything to go by, the company has a lot to prove when it comes to performance and dependability. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/Qei5Oh6 via Grabey
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Dbrand’s Zelda skin turns your Switch into a giant middle finger to Nintendo lawyers

Dbrand switches things up. | Image: Dbrand Dbrand just made another quick buck by flipping off Nintendo. You can now preorder a $50 skin for your Nintendo Switch that’s a dead ringer for the $359 Nintendo Switch OLED Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Edition — at least until you look closely. At first, the “Clone of the Kingdom” seems like just that. But then you realize that Dbrand replaced the Triforce with The Eye of Providence, a symbol often as famous for its connections to conspiracy theories and the Illuminati as for its benign appearance on the back of a US Dollar. (Admittedly, the crest of the Sheikah is an eye with three pyramids for eyebrows.) Then, you might notice the runes. What might they read? “Go fuck yourself, lawyers” is the first one I decoded; I won’t… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/78rAaCZ via Grabey
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I won’t spend more than $250 on a new smartphone

The Pixel 7A has a more than capable camera. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge I won’t spend more than $250 on a phone. I know what you’re thinking: that doesn’t sound like a lot of money considering how expensive some phones are these days. (And by these days, I mean yesterday, and by expensive, I mean the Pixel Fold’s eye-watering $1,800 price tag.) But yesterday, I also ordered a new Pixel 7A and, after two years of rebates on Google Fi, it will come out to a clean $250. That’s the same $250 I spent on the Pixel 6A last year, which I will hand over to my partner to replace the Pixel 4A 5G that I bought in 2020, which also cost me… you guessed it, $250. It’s not that I have always lived by this rule. I bought my first iPhone in 2008, the iPhone 3G, whose 16GB variant cost me $299 on a two-year contract. Before… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/0qUfJl8 via Grabey
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Google’s new Project Starline prototype isn’t a giant booth

Image: Google Google has revealed a new, smaller version of its Project Starline 3D telepresence technology as part of its bevy of updates announced at Google I/O. In the past, I’ve described Project Starline as a video chat booth because it was a booth you could actually sit in to talk to lifelike holographic projections of another person. I got to sit in a Starline booth last October, and I thought it was really impressive. But this new Starline prototype looks more like a big TV that I can more reasonably imagine fitting in an office or conference room. In addition to the smaller size, the updated Starline apparently doesn’t require the special array of infrared light emitters and cameras used by the version of the technology that I saw. Instead,… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/zh4bDFJ via Grabey
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DAZN joins anti-piracy coalition to crack down on bootleg sports streams

Photo by Zac Goodwin / PA Images via Getty Images International online sports broadcasting company DAZN has joined a global task force that aims to shut down pirated and unauthorized sports streaming operations worldwide. The new group is operated by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), which counts giants like Amazon, Apple, NBC Universal, Netflix, Disney, Sony, and Warner Bros. among its members. Unauthorized streaming sources can often be the only available option for people to watch certain teams and matches subject to complicated broadcasting deals, locked into high-priced bundles, and blackouts. With more tech and entertainment companies using sports as a sweetener for their services (NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube, MLS / MLB for Apple TV Plus, and Thursday Night… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/A0WSm3I via Grabey
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Achewood is back, and it’s weirder than ever

Web comic artist Chris Onstad, creator of the Achewood comic, is photographed in his home in Portland, Oregon. | Photo by Christine Dong for The Verge The cult hit web comic sprawled in literary scope, pushing author Chris Onstad to burnout. Now, he thinks an AI might help him manage it. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/GfjyJai via Grabey
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How Google tried to fix the web — by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/NXwkGdo via Grabey
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A day on the Gateway 14

I spent a day on a $279, bright blue, cow-spotted 14-inch laptop, and I’m seriously impressed by how much it has to offer. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/NGe25Sl via Grabey
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VanMoof S5 e-bike review: nice but twice the price

$4,000 and a long list of features, but how many do you really need? Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/PQxI0s4 via Grabey
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Congress is flooded with bills for childproofing the internet

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This week, lawmakers and regulators made a fresh push to strengthen privacy and safety protections for children online, introducing a flood of bills and enforcement proposals with varying amounts of support from their colleagues, civil liberties groups, and tech trade associations alike. The burst of action comes on the heels of an ongoing youth mental health crisis that seemingly all stakeholders want to resolve, but many fear these proposals could create new problems for children and members of marginalized communities online. The largely bipartisan bills were filed in quick succession. Last Wednesday, a group of senators introduced the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act, which would establish a nationwide age verification pilot… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/uONKLQX via Grabey
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All the rumors about Google’s upcoming Pixel hardware so far

Illustration: The Verge From the Pixel 7A to the rumored Pixel foldable, here’s what we’re expecting out of Google’s hardware division in May and beyond. Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/fL8APgY via Grabey
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Dune: Part Two’s first trailer is a tense sandworm ride

Photo: Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures Following an all-too-brief tease yesterday, the first trailer for Dune: Part Two is here, and most importantly it includes a sandworm — you even get to see Paul Atreides ride the beast. Though it’s nothing fancy. The sequel is an adaptation of the second half of the Dune story, which is not all that surprising since the first film was dubbed Dune: Part One and ended rather abruptly. It also expands the impressive cast with the likes of Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, and Léa Seydoux, most of whom get some screen time in the new trailer. They’re joining returning cast members like Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, who thankfully appears to have a much larger role this time around. Denis Villeneuve is returning to direct,… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/xAHL7jt via Grabey
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How to create an iCloud Shared Photo Library in iOS 16

iCloud Shared Photo Libraries let up to six people contribute photos and videos to a single place. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Almost everyone has been guilty, at some point or another, of forgetting to send a picture or video to friends and family. The good news is that iOS 16 now lets you create an iCloud Shared Photo Library to make it easier to share memories with loved ones on their iPhones, iPads, and Macs. An iCloud Shared Photo Library is exactly what it sounds like: it allows up to six people to contribute photos and videos to a single collection. Everyone who has access to the shared library can add, edit, or delete content. You can also choose to either upload photos to the shared library manually or automatically when your phone detects you’re near other members. For example, if you invited Mom and Dad to a shared library, you can set it up so that… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/alOMxPA via Grabey
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Apple’s first iPhone Rapid Security Response patch had a problem, but it’s fine now

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple announced the new “Rapid Security Response” updates for iPhones, iPads, and Macs last year at WWDC, and today, the first publicly released patch on the system started to roll out. After rough going initially when the new update claimed every iPhone was “offline,” the new patch is now installed on our devices without a problem. The Rapid Security Response system is supposed to make things easier, adding security fixes in between larger system updates that could install on some devices without a reboot as well as allowing users to opt out of receiving them entirely or uninstall them if they caused any issues. this just successfully installed for me and it installed in around 30 seconds. Good to see rapid patches available on iOS —… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/awkMWhv via Grabey
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The entire Super Mario Bros. movie keeps getting posted to Twitter

Whoops. It’s a long-standing belief here at The Verge that copyright law is the only real law on the internet, because it’s the only speech regulation most people on most platforms will accept. (At least in the United States.) Post something that blatantly infringes someone else’s copyright, and most platforms will spring into action to take it down, because they are protected from liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if they take action in a reasonable amount of time upon request. And the way the DMCA influences user behavior on platforms is really well-known: we have been writing about “no copyright intended” for over a decade now. There are lots of and lots of people out there who know how it works. Anyway, Elon Musk isn’t… Continue reading… from The Verge – All Posts https://ift.tt/1FdhMV9 via Grabey
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