AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarPitchfork lived and died by the internetverified_publisherThe Verge - Elizabeth LopattoPitchfork exploded as the music industry changed, then was cut down to size by another wave of technological change. Was that it? Last year, in an appearance on Rick Rubin’s podcast, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor observed that over the course of his career, music has become more ubiquitous — and, …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarThe Echo Hub is Alexa’s missing pieceverified_publisherThe Verge - Jennifer Pattison TuohyAmazon’s new control panel makes using an Alexa-powered smart home as easy as flipping a light switch (only better, trust me). Amazon’s Echo Hub ($179.99) is the best solution yet for an affordable, intuitive way to control your smart home. I’ve lived with home automation for over a decade and one …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarInside King of the Hammers, a gnarly off-road race that’s “Burning Man for rednecks”verified_publisherThe Verge - Emme HallWhile the event is known as one of the biggest motorsport events in the world, it’s also a place to showcase technology, land stewardship, and just a tiny bit of nightlife. Every year, tens of thousands of people gather here in the Mojave Desert with two goals: to see some incredible off-road racing …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarThe rise and fall of robots.txtverified_publisherThe Verge - David PierceFor decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. Part of / For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or …
AvatarThe VergeHow Lego builds a new Lego setverified_publisherThe Verge - Sean HollisterMarc Corfmat was a teenager when he began to compete for Lego’s ultimate prize: the chance to design an official set. He and his brother Nick had been building custom Lego creations ever since they were kids, sometimes in California, sometimes during vacations at their grandparents’ home in La …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarHow Twitter broke the newsverified_publisherThe Verge - Nilay Patelere is a very dumb truth: for a decade, the default answer to nearly every problem in mass media communication involved Twitter. Breaking news? Twitter. Live sports commentary? Twitter. Politics? Twitter. A celebrity has behaved badly? Twitter. A celebrity has issued a Notes app apology for bad …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarThe year Twitter died: a special series from The VergeThe Verge - Verge StaffA news accelerator. A tool of mass harassment. An idealistic, money-losing workplace. The Verge bids a fond farewell to the infinite joke machine that was Twitter.
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarGoodbye to all that harassmentverified_publisherThe Verge - Sarah JeongSarah Jeong @Sarah Jeong I’ve had a really good time on here. I’ve also had a really bad time on here lol 8:47 PM · Nov 17, 2022 he first tweet was already unsettling. It was a composite image of things I’d said — largely dug up from five years earlier — screencaps of posts with tiny archive links …
AvatarThe VergeThe greatest tweets of all timeverified_publisherThe Verge - Verge Staffjulia fox is literally mother @sophiepenrose (about to invent gargoyles) babe the cathedral looks great. how can we get a little fucking freak on the roof. 6:18 am • Patricia Lockwood @TriciaLockwood I will fuck chewbacca and I will die that way 10:42 pm • Heroic Girls @SDCC 2023 - #MoreThanCute …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarBefore Elon, Twitter was an idealist’s workplaceverified_publisherThe Verge - Zoë SchifferStill, many employees appreciated the fact that, particularly in recent years, Twitter focused on improving the health of online conversations rather than growth at all costs. That might sound naive for a business, but at least for a time, the company embodied the idealistic promise of Silicon …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarThe people who ruined the internetverified_publisherThe Verge - Amanda Chicago LewisAs the public begins to believe Google isn’t as useful anymore, what happens to the cottage industry of search engine optimization experts who struck content oil and smeared it all over the web? Well, they find a new way to get rich and keep the party going. The alligator got my attention. Which, of …
AvatarThe VergeAvatarAvatarThe obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserableverified_publisherThe Verge - Erika Hayasakiike many instructors, Janani Umamaheswar occasionally checks Rate My Professors to monitor her course reviews. The site offers a loose barometer of how you are doing as a teacher, especially early in a career in academia. Since users post anonymously, including criticisms and rants, the site can …