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I'm Matt Birchler, a designer, product manager, YouTuber, and developer who's been writing about tech since 2010.

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Xbox embraces exclusives again (and why Nintendo may have played the long game brilliantly)

Joe Skrebels: XBOX Games Showcase 2026 Recap: The Return of Exclusives, World Premieres, and Anniversary Hardware As part of our

13 Jun

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Anthropic: Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 The US government, citing

12 Jun

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Devin Coldewey: Google's new logos are bad Google really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of

12 Jun

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12 Jun

Apple

One of the big problems with the glass redesign in OS 26 was that it was really optimized to look

12 Jun

Apple

As someone who has been covering this ecosystem for nearly twenty years, the biggest shift this year, and my single

11 Jun

Apple's WWDC kicked off yesterday, and there is one update in particular that struck me, the Sidecar feature

09 Jun