Would You Buy a Nintendo Switch Plus in 2020?
It hasn’t been confirmed yet, but there has been a lot of rumbling about a new Nintendo Switch coming
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How Does the Apple Watch Avoid Screen Burn In?
I was looking at my Pixel 4 (like you do) and I noticed something I don’t often think about
A New Era in Daily Climate
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale | Nature Climate Change
For generations, climate scientists have educated the public that ‘weather is not climate’, and climate change has been framed as the change in the distribution of weather that slowly emerges from large variability over decades. However, weather when considered
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There are Fewer Dramatic Rebrands These Days
Warner Bros. Studios, PBS, and IKEA rebrand for this century
Really, if you’re adapting to the digital age now,
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The Golden Age of Blogging
Josh Ginter writing for his personal blog, The Newsprint
I started The Newsprint in what felt like a golden era
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The Damn Pixel 4 Camera
I recently wrote about how damn good the iPhone 11 cameras are, and it only felt right to also mention
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You Must Read This Post About the Decade Writing About Video Games
The Cost Of Being A Woman Who Covers Video Games
At the beginning of 2010, I had no idea how
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This Reboot Needs…a Reboot
Finding Lara Croft - Super Jump Magazine - Medium
Sega has responded to this collision of old and new fans by releasing
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One UI 2.0: The BirchTree Micro-Review
Alright, let’s do this thing! I’m calling this a micro-review because there actually isn’t a ton
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The Damn iPhone 11 Camera
Look at the photo above. Really look at it.
That’s a picture of my dog, Sherman, shaking himself off
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Privacy as I Say, Not as I Do
Daring Fireball: The New York Times's Hypocrisy on Ad Tracking and Privacy
Here’s the thing. The NYT’s website is loaded with several dozen ad-trackers. I don’t know if any of them collect location data too, but you’d be a fool to bet against that.
This report from The
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On Weekly Release Schedules
Weekly episodes are better than binging · Maximilian Litteral
I truly believe Baby Yoda wouldn’t be as big of a phenomenon it is today if the entire show was available all at once.
The Verge also wrote about this
By dropping every episode at once, Netflix is sacrificing weekly discussions around The Witcher for a
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Iovine on the Music Business Going Into 2020
Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here’s Why He’s Worried. - The New York Times
And the streaming music services are utilities — they’re all the same. Look at what’s working in video. Disney has nothing but original stuff. Netflix has tons of original stuff. But the music streaming services are all the
Critics, They’re Just Like You and Me
There has been something gnawing at me since the launch of Apple TV+, and that’s the general frustration some people have with “critics.” This sort of disconnect is perpetuated by sites like Rotten Tomatoes which condenses critical and user perception to single numbers. So for example, The Morning Show has a 63% score from
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How I’m Using Notion to Track my Life in 2020
I know articles and video on Notion are a dime a dozen, but after years of being totally befuddled by
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Limewire
An Oral History of LimeWire: The Little App That Changed the Music Industry Forever
Movies were more of a hassle. You’d have to wait about a day or two for the download to be finished, and you didn’t even know if it was the correct file or not. The only thing you had
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Documenting DLC’s 2020 Gaming Predictions
I did this last year too, and I hope that this is useful for Jeff and Christian as they put
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Recession…Revitalization
2019 was the first year ever that BirchTree saw fewer visitors than the year before.
Needless to say, after 8