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Political Emails Bypassing Spam Filters…as a Service!
Ashley Belanger: Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters
Earlier this month, Google sent a request to the Federal Election Commission seeking an advisory opinion on the potential launch of a pilot program that would allow political committees to bypass spam filters and instead deliver political emails to the
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Apple Getting NFL Sunday Ticket Would Be Perfect
Dylan Byers: Is Apple's Eddy Cue About to Get NFL's Sunday Ticket? (via MacRumors)
The race for the Ticket has therefore come down to Apple and Amazon, and while nothing has been signed or agreed to, I have been given ample reason to believe that Apple is the most likely winner
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Bored, Mad, and Posting Like Your Great-Uncle
Charlie Warzel: Elon Musk Is an Honorary Facebook Boomer
I’d like to talk about Elon Musk’s obsession with bots and how it actually illustrates the ways he is an extremely shallow thinker when it comes to online dynamics.
And:
Instead of facing the reality that many people dislike him as a result of
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Heardle Joins Spotify
Ariel Shapiro: Spotify acquires music trivia game Heardle
Spotify announced Tuesday that it has purchased Heardle, one of the many themed trivia games that cropped up in the wake of Wordle’s blockbuster success. Heardle is Spotify’s first game acquisition, and the company hopes it will play a dual role: in addition to keeping
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250 Hours of Extra Life
Yasmeen Serhan: How the Rest of the World Is Doing RTO
When I asked experts about the main reasons driving preferences for hybrid and remote work, the most common answer had to do with commuting. Although those who live within walking distance of their workplace may find it convenient to return to the office, many
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Good Guy Nintendo
Nintendo officially recognizes domestic gay partnerships for employees
In the employees section of Nintendo’s CSR, we learn that Nintendo is officially recognizing gay domestic partnerships. This might not seem like a big deal at first, but Japan currently doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages from a law standpoint. Nintendo obviously disagrees with this, hence
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Pixelmator for iOS Gets a Big Update
Pixelmator 2.7 is out today and it's a huge improvement to the app, in my opinion. They've made some good updates to the design using modern iOS components, and support for Pixelmator Pro documents makes it a more useful tool for those of us who rely on their Mac app
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Billions of Worlds in a Single Pixel
NASA has released the first full color images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and they're pretty
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Why Passkeys Will Be Simpler and More Secure Than Passwords
Glenn Fleishman: Why Passkeys Will Be Simpler and More Secure Than Passwords
The main question that remains unanswered is how portable passkeys will be among ecosystems: can I use iOS and Android and Windows and share a passkey generated on one among all three? Given that Apple has built an AirDrop-sharing method for passkeys,
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The UX Wins for Apple and Google Maps
This article is a good breakdown of a few elements that Apple and Google do better than each other. For example, Apple has far better voice guidance, but Google understands that pedestrians don't have to stick to the roads.
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Wishing the Nothing Phone Luck
Chris Hannah: I Hope The Nothing Phone Does Well
The problem I’ve already started to see with this phone (that isn’t even released yet), is that some are already asking “Is this the iPhone killer?”. Let’s not beat around the bush. The Nothing phone (1) is not the iPhone killer. Nor will
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Checking in on El Salvador’s Bitcoin Project
Nelson Rauda Zablah: In El Salvador, Bitcoin Is Nothing More Than Authoritarian Propaganda
In El Salvador over the past year, many members of the global crypto community have cheered on President Nayib Bukele’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender while largely ignoring his dismantling of democratic institutions over the past three.
Not dissimilar to
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Mobile Games Are Trash and We All Know It
From the Friends Per Second podcast:
But I do think that this product, Diablo Immortal specifically, really sets a new president for how I view this company, because I don't think it's fine for us just to be like “oh, well it's a mobile game, so we just ignore
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Another Opinion on the Opal C1 Webcam
Mike Schmitz has a great review of the Opal C1 on The Sweet Setup:
Hands down, the Opal C1 is by far the most impressive webcam video I’ve ever seen. I’ve tried just about every premium webcam out there, and in my opinion the Opal C1 is truly head and shoulders above everything
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Apple’s M2 is a Great Value
I was watching the Hardware Unboxed performance analysis of the new 13” MacBook Pro with an M2 processor and this performance chart stood out to me:
This shows the M2 performing quite well compared to these other processors, but it wasn’t top of the pack, so I was curious what the cost was to
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AirPods Max 2 are Getting a New Case
This patent is clearly not showing a perfect replica of what the final product will look like, but I fully
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What Americans Think “Free Speech” Actually Means
Knight Foundation: Free speech for all? Poll reveals Americans’ views on free expression post-2020
Most people believe other groups have an easier time exercising their free speech rights without consequence than they do. For example, Democrats see conservatives as having an easier time, while Republicans believe minority groups, such as Black, Hispanic, Asian, or
