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In the wake of our Pixel 5 review, we were left thinking about the subject of haptics and what, precisely, separates good haptics from bad. It's hard to quantify a sensory experience, and that's part of why phone reviews are a thing. But we've dug into the subject, and even sat down with Cirrus…
October 1, 2020, 8:00 PM▲ Reiko Katsube, a social worker at the Toyonaka Council of Social Welfare, driving to meet clients. Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, they continue to search for direction in middle age. October 1, 2020, 8:00 PM The doors open only once. That’s how people often…
The Great Read A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished. Credit... Oct. 26, 2020 Leer en español LO
Bussa Krishna, a farmer who called President Trump his god, stopped eating after Mr. Trump became infected with the coronavirus, his family said. He died on Sunday. Bussa Krishna in February at his sh
I try to keep two distinct readers in mind with these annual reviews of new iPhones. First, you, today — you probably want insight to help you decide, to some degree, whether you should upgrade from whatever iPhone you currently own (and you probably do own an iPhone already) to one of this year’s…
This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland Sohla?” the video begins. “Do you have a minute?” The stars of Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen have so many questions, and Sohla El-Waylly is like…
The day after the Oscars in 2018, everything that had changed, changed back again. Timothée Chalamet had spent the previous months becoming known. He had acted in a film, Call Me by Your Name, which was critically acclaimed as well as an instant object of cultish admiration—and his performance had…
Many people who used to commute to an office every day have passed the six-month mark as remote workers, and we are now working from home offices, dining room tables, desks set up in the corners of bedrooms, or living room sofas. The folks here at The Verge are no different, and we thought it might…
I joined Stripe four years ago to make starting an Internet business easier, mostly by work on Stripe Atlas . This has been a series of adjustments for me: to working as an employee, to experiencing h
When Netscape launched in 1994 and kicked off the consumer internet, there were maybe 100m PCs on earth, and over half of them were in the USA. The web was invented in Switzerland, and computers were invented in the UK, but the internet was American. American companies set the agenda and created…
Hi! Can here! You might have noticed I’ve been a bit away from Margins. The last couple of weeks have been a bit crazy — I traveled to Turkey as Northern California ceased to be livable. And right after I waited out my quarantine, I took a week off from all internet, which has been a godsend. I am…
President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and faith leaders say a prayer in the Oval Office in September 2017. Alex Wong / Getty One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime co
ODDO Architects describe Hanoi as a city dense with people, traffic, and air pollution. They say it lacks parks and public spaces, but it’s strong in Vietnamese culture and tradition. In 2019, they designed the CH House for a family of six spanning three generations, drawing on tradition to create a…
Programming notes: There’s a presidential debate tonight! Here’s how to watch it online. And here’s P September 29 · Issue #576 · View online Programming notes:
The Biden team’s planning for a hypothetical administration is already well underway. And on questions of economic policy, the transition effort is already becoming a locus of a fight about what a Democratic White House should look like. On one side stand progressives, urging the creation of…
Choosing to learn in public is the best career decision I’ve ever made. I started my podcast as a 22-year old. In less than four years, I’ve interviewed astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson, entre
I. Leaving After seven great years at The Verge, I’ve decided to take a flying leap. Today I’m announcing Platformer, a tiny media company dedicated to covering social networks and their relationships with the world. In this post, I’ll tell you why I think the world needs a publication like…
Casey Newton, who has covered tech for The Verge, joins a growing number of reporters who have started subscription newsletters at Substack, a three-year-old platform. Casey Newton is the latest journ
Monday, Sep 21, 2020 The most important thing I look for when choosing which tools to use is longevity. Learning software is an investment, and if you have to switch to another application later, you lose some of that investment. In most software categories, choosing the software with longevity is…
September 2020 Mozilla is in an absolute state: high overheads, falling usage of Firefox, questionable sources of revenue and now making big cuts to engineering as their income falls. Mozilla's top exec pay has gone up hugely even as usage has crashed. Mozilla recently announced that they would be…
Your work is done when it looks so simple that the consumer thinks they could have done it, which means they won’t appreciate how hard you worked. Easy reading is hard writing. To write well, you must
Founded by two former Pentagram designers, Order is a Brooklyn-based design office that’s created acclaimed identity systems for the likes of MoMA and Kickstarter. Alongside it, they run renowned publishing imprint Standards Manual, from which they’ve created archival books on NASA and the NYCTA. To…
This is where it all starts… ISSUE 001 Welcome! It feels great to be writing again. For our premiere issue, I want to explain the motivations driving Andy Works and why I feel it needs to exist. I get into the state of tech and Design's role in our lives. It's long, so you'll have to indulge me. I…
Spark Capital 2 min read· Sep 16, 2020 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Today, we unveiled our new look, one that was influenced by our past and is a nod to the many creators who have inspired us over the years on their journey to make impossible ideas — real. It’s a story that…
Magazine ‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden Behind the friendship was a more complicated relationship, which now drives the former vice president to prove his p
Alex Wheeler 12 min read· Sep 3, 2020 -- One of the conversations I find myself having with every user experience designer I meet in the game industry is how they ended up working in games. The stories are always unique, but usually involve a winding path through non-gaming companies and a…
I just like the vibe of Kanazawa. Maybe it’s the general lack of tall buildings. Or the extreme walkability of it all — from the station to the main downtown area, to the gardens and tea districts. Maybe it’s the small streams that criss-cross the city, appearing alongside sinuous roads, burbling…
It seems appropriate that the first ruling in Epic v. Apple was a split decision: Fortnite remains out of the App Store,1 but Epic may continue to use Apple’s developer tools in order to support Unreal Engine. Apple v. Epic The truth is that, from a philosophical perspective, both Epic and Apple…
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