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Google Fonts is an incredible resource, and it's made it stupid-easy for many people to get custom fonts on their websites with ease. I'm a little fuzzy on all the details, but it's also helped make a bunch of high quality fonts free and open source for the

Chance Miller: A new full-size HomePod could be a hit, as long as Apple doesn't overthink it But as I wrote just a few months ago, hindsight is 20/20, and it’s starting to appear that we (and Apple?) might have taken the original HomePod for granted. Now that the HomePod

Peter Kafka: Netflix's newest problem: Its newest customers [B]y the end of April, 23 percent of Americans who signed up for Netflix had dropped the service within a month. That’s more new subscriber cancellations than any other competitive service Antenna tracks — including the likes of Apple TV+ and HBO Max, which

Mitch Cohen: “Sign in with” anything - and save it in 1Password Today we’re starting with a familiar kind of sign-in service (also known as social logins or SSO). When you visit a site and click a button like “Sign in with Google”, 1Password will remember your choice and offer to save it for

Sony’s upcoming InZone monitors look perfect for me: Made for PC but with specs to take full advantage of the PS5, along with Xbox Series X, the $899 InZone M9 is the flagship product of the bunch. It’s a 27-inch 4K IPS gaming monitor built to match the aesthetic of the PS5

The latest episode of Connected was tons of fun, but there were two iPhones were I think there was one phone massively undervalued: the iPhone 11 Pro. Today I'm going to argue why I think this is the greatest modern iPhone, and one of the best the company has ever made. The Everything

Alex Russell: Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice Past swings away from OS default browsers have hinged on the superior features, better performance, improved security, and superior site compatibility. Marketing and distribution play a prominent role but have been indecisive in recent browser battles. The leads of OS incumbents are not insurmountable because browsers

A site called 52audio is reporting a few things about AirPods Pro 2, including that they will have USB-C for charging rather than Lightning. Assuming this rumor is true: 1. Lightning is annoying when all other new tech has USB-C, and Apple's move to bring USB-C to all of their

An article about podcasting, Bitcoin, and payments?! You know I had to comment! Apple did a nice job keeping a hands-off approach to the market and letting third-party apps innovate where they could. What remained was an open protocol (RSS) that allowed anyone to subscribe to any show in any app. Good times

Jeff Benjamin has a reputation for making extensive videos about what's new in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS every year, and in his first real video for his new indie channel Cellular, he went all out. Here's two and a half hours of super high-quality walkthroughs. Enjoy! P.S. Yes, there

Jana Iyengar: Private Access Tokens: stepping into the privacy-respecting, CAPTCHA-less future we were promised Private Access Tokens are an alternative to CAPTCHAs for supported client platforms. They use careful application of cryptography and requirements to guarantee that a website learns only exactly what it needs to know about a user in order to

Alice Gribbin: The Empathy Racket Asking artworks to teach people lessons means asking those who engage art to see themselves as morally wanting. As a circumscribed expectation of an art encounter, empathy burdens the mind. The imperative that one corral one’s feelings in a single direction is spirit-smothering, tyrannous. There may be some

Bryan Caplan: Convenience vs. Social Desirability Bias The Panglossian explanation is that there’s almost no political resistance to the inconvenience of extra privacy, safety, and consumer protection because these benefits are clearly worth the loss of convenience. Yet that’s hard to reconcile with the enormous effect of convenience on our actual behavior. Furthermore,

José Adorno: watchOS 9 is Apple Watch's greatest update in years thanks to Series 3 being discontinued I honestly think watchOS 9 is the greatest update for the Apple Watch in years and the main reason is Apple Watch Series 3 going away for good. I know it’s a very affordable wearable