Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 100, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for a big gadget week, and also you can read Read more…
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of transportation and technology, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ Read more…
Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days may bring some great Kindle deals, but if you can’t wait, you don’t have to. Right now, the Kindle Kids (Amazon, Best Buy, and Target) and Kindle Colorsoft Kids (Amazon, Read more…
Spotify has found itself the target of artists’ ire for many reasons over the years: poor audio quality, terrible payouts, giving Joe Rogan millions of dollars… the list goes on. But recently it’s been CEO Read more…
The robovac comes with a dock that can refill itself using its built-in water tank. Robot vacuums that mop well rarely come cheap, but thankfully, some of our favorite models are receiving a significant discount Read more…
Last week at the Zurich Film Festival, Eline Van der Velden – founder and CEO of AI production house Particle6 and its subsidiary talent studio Xicoia – said that a number of talent agents had Read more…
Why just post a photo when you can encourage all your friends and followers to engage with it? Have you tried simply uploading a photo to Instagram lately? It’s a minefield. Is that a Story, Read more…
There’s a lot of math in diet culture. It’s all numbers – calories in, calories burned – and a constant tally running in one’s head. In some ways, disordered eating can be considered a disturbed Read more…
Breaking up Google’s ad tech monopoly is, apparently, like going to Mars or trying to replace Michael Jordan – dubiously possible and a huge amount of work. Those were some of the analogies witnesses testifying Read more…
Acer has made many Spin-series Chromebooks before, and despite flaws, this is one of its best yet. I was cautiously optimistic about Acer’s Chromebook Plus Spin 514 when I tested a preproduction model last month, Read more…