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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
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The World’s First Multi-Chain Gaming Console That Will Never Exist
Polium: Polium One: The World’s First Multi-Chain Gaming Console
Polium is building the world’s first multi-chain gaming console. The console will be built by the community. It will be capable of running games that are built on different blockchains. Users will be able to play games that are on ImmutableX, Solana,
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Uniquely American
On this Fourth of July, I found this Reddit thread fascinating: What's an incredibly american thing americans don't realize is american? Check it out, but a few standouts to me here:
* Prescription drug commercials. These are like half of the ads during some shows here in the U.S.
* Extremely long
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Nintendo Finally Got Third Parties Right
Chris Brandrick: Persona finally comes to Switch (properly), plus Nintendo's Joy-Con repair subscription
Now, this week we finally got that Direct we were all waiting for. It may not have been a 'proper' Direct (like those we typically see in June), but nonetheless I thought it was rather good. I
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Enjoy the Good Old Days of Game Pass
Xbox Series X: long term review
Game pass has literally been a game changer and I’ve played so many more games I wouldn’t have looked at before. Aside from buying the occasional plane in flight simulator the console hasn’t cost me any additional money. Looking at the PS5 I can’t see
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Stranger Things Posters are Going Hard
I love this series of posters Stranger Things is posting to Instagram recently. Some of them are a little spoiler-
