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People Can’t Stop Talking About the Metaverse
Metaverse! Metaverse? Metaverse!! — Benedict Evans
But VR today seems to be at risk of stalling out as no more than a subset of hardcore games. We have a great consumer device but we don’t have any other use cases, and indeed some games people would argue that VR isn’t even working in games.
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The Return of Style in Software
Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding" - Molly Mielke
Style matters to our economy, our society, and to each of us personally — it allows us to communicate who we are and who we want to be. While it is widely understood that style is the driving force behind consumer purchasing decisions in
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We Actually Can Handle the Truth
Michael Bang Petersen writing for Nature:
During a pandemic, rapid behavioural change is crucial, so people cannot be asked to
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Delightful iPhone Ringtones and Notifications
Josh Ginter:
Cleartones are awesome. They’re simple notification tones and ringtones made with simple instruments. To me, these are
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I've Never Seen Cheating on a Test Like This
This is nuts!
"The slippers had a sim card and the candidates had a tiny Bluetooth bug implanted in
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Live to Work? Ehhhhhh…maybe.
Who Gets To Have Fun At Work? - Charlie Warzel
So why do people in Armstrong’s position take this criticism
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Going Into the Office to Zoom with Colleagues
Anne Helen Petersen:
On college campuses across the United States, staff are back in the office. More specifically, they’re
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1Password Psst! makes it stupid easy to share passwords more securely
1Password rolled out a pretty cool new feature today called Psst! that lets you share a link to a specific
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How I'd Redesign Alarm and Timer Notifications on iOS
Apologies for the iPhone 13 screenshots on an iPhone 12 body, my mock ups haven't been updated for
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Give Me More $20 Games I Can Beat in a Weekend
PS5 Boss Wants Future Games To Be As Popular As Music
“Right now, we are narrowing ourselves down into genres and sequels and certain types of games,” Shawn Layden, former CEO of SIE Worldwide Studios, told GamesIndustry.biz in July. “Favourites like my own, like Parappa and Vib-Ribbon, those things don’t seem to
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Facebook’s PR Landslide
Why Facebook is spiraling - by Casey Newton - Platformer
And so once again, even when the details are wrong, I think the scrutiny is broadly right. How does Facebook affect our mental health? How does it affect our politics? What does it know about itself that it has so far declined to share?
These strike me
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What Happens to All this Rage?
What Do We Do With All This Rage? - Charlie Warzel
When I walk around public spaces now — no matter where — I find myself thinking about the vaccination status of those around me and whether some reckless person will turn me into a vector for disease that will get my father-in-law or my friends&
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It’s All About Storytelling
Life by anecdote | Seth's Blog
“What evidence would you need to see to change your mind?”
The honest answer to this question is usually: “I need a new story that’s more immediate, more vivid and most of all, more culturally aligned than the one I have now.”
Stories are way more powerful
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Consumerism as Patriotism
How 9/11 convinced Americans to buy, buy, buy:
This version of patriotism — consumer patriotism — was on full display after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the hijacking of United Airlines Flight 93 in 2001. The message from political leaders was that the way for Americans to move past the
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I'm Not Sure Anything's Different This Time
Changing The Facebook Conversation - Charlie Warzel
And what Haugen is doing here is articulating a very powerful point that many Facebook users still take for granted: What you see on Facebook is not organic presentation of information. It is the result of decisions made for you by the company’s software, which follows its leaders’
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Ted Lasso is No Superhero (he's even better than that)
Ted Lasso is No Superhero - Sophie Gilbert
One character alone can’t fully rid pop culture’s masculine paradigm of
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Okay, Walmart 👀
Walmart has announced stores will be closed Thanksgiving this year:
Today, Walmart announced all U.S. store locations will close for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, as a ‘thank you’ to associates for their continued hard work during the pandemic.
I mean okay, you're totally doing it as a "thank you to your
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Organizing a Web Browser's UI
File this under, "am I taking crazy pills?" but I've been quite confused by one specific part of the Safari 15 complaints I've seen over the summer. The complaint is basically that Safari 15 gets the order wrong of it's main 3 rows of chrome: address bar,
