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The future of code is exciting and terrifying
On The Vergecast: how to love and hate AI at the same time, and what US phone buyers are missing.
The fast rise and epic fall of Clubhouse
On Version History: How audio social networking came to be the next big thing, and why it never really was.
Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game
Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Sonos speaker, a huge Apple history book, the Bigfoot emoji, and much more.
On The Vergecast: Apple’s newest and next gadgets, the next Xbox is a PC, and the Big Tech space race.
This is immediately my new favorite way to watch YouTube.
It’s called Channel Surfer, and it presents YouTube as an old-school grid of TV channels, which you can flip though to see what’s on. All the simplicity of watching cable in a hotel room; all the videos you actually want to watch. It’s fun on its own, but it feels like magic as soon as you import your own subscriptions to create personalized channels.
“You’re sitting at home and just taking pictures of yourself, pulling various faces.”
One of my favorite things to do on social media is to just imagine the people setting up the camera right before the video starts — because as soon as you remember they set up a camera, the whole viewing experience changes. This fun Ringer story about the rise of YouTube Face (trust me, you know the face) pulls back a lot of that artifice and dives into some of the strange workings of the internet’s biggest video platform.
The twist in the Ticketmaster antitrust fight
On The Vergecast: music monopolies, Anthropic vs. the DoD, foldable phones, and much more.
Furby: kind of sneakily an AI story.
The third season of Version History kicked off this weekend, and I can confidently tell you it’s the first time that research has required me to spend several hours on Geocities. Such was the toy world in 1998! Furby is a story of technology, of toys, and of human-gadget philosophy. It’s a really fun episode — subscribe wherever you get podcasts, or watch the full episode on the new Version History YouTube channel.
Apple iPad Air M4 review: a little bit faster now
If your iPad is still in good shape, you don’t need this one. Or any other new one. But if it’s upgrade time, start here.
The cute and cursed story of Furby
On Version History: the cute, furry toy that wouldn’t stop talking and made millions of friends anyway.
