“Historically, our identities were heavily linked with where we lived, our families and friends. But as the quality of mirrors improved and candlelight gave way to gas and electricity, visual self-awareness was intensified and focus turned inwards – a shift which has had a significant impact. ‘The…

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In recent years, Apple has taken to making more of its new features available across all of its major operating systems. As a result, it’s made less sense for us to cover the same feature in multiple

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4 min read · Aug 17, 2017 -- “All I do is work, my work-life balance is a mess.” “Silicon Valley brogrammer companies do not understand or value diversity.” “Most startups fail.” “Recruiting is diffic

At Slack, every one of our processes and features has been designed with the primary goal of making Slack a workplace tool that feels human. We see ourselves as our users’ hosts, and we want them to f

One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with an Asgardian ex

The twentysomething daughter of a friend of mine recently ordered half a dozen new dresses. She wasn’t planning to keep the lot; she’d been invited to the wedding of a college classmate and knew in ad

Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon There’s a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ’s Marakuguc Shrine , but it’s broken. More than half of the bridge is pile

It was August 1984, and Ronald Reagan was seeking reelection. The Democrats had held their convention in July, in San Francisco (a choice that would haunt them for years), where they nominated Walter

A well-conducted code review is an opportunity for both the author and the reviewer to learn, share knowledge, and contribute to the overall quality of the software . They are our shared journey towar

AUSTIN, Texas In March, Alexandre Ponsin set out on a family road trip from Colorado to California in his newly purchased Tesla, a used 2021 Model 3. He expected to get something close to the electric

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One thing to be said about Apple's virtual events is that they go at a breakneck pace. Rewatch some of Apple's in-person events from 2019 and earlier, and they'll go at a snail's pace compared to thei

Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge There was a sign in the Google Reader team’s workspace at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “Days Since Cancellation,” it read, with a

This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge. A few months after graduating from college in Nairobi, a 30-year-old I’ll call Joe got a job as an annotator — the tedious work of processing the raw information used to train artificial intelligence. AI learns by finding…

Star Wars may be a wild sci-fi fantasy galaxy of aliens, pirates and space wizards, but it actually has a lot of secret rules. For instance: Paper does not exist. There are no wheels. Doors always sli

Apple’s WWDC23 keynote presentation was going so well. I wasn’t loving everything, mind you. The new 15-inch MacBook Air didn’t impress me and I still believe it’s an unnecessary addition that further

Vision Pro. I’m going to be direct with this story. My 30-minute demo with Vision Pro last week was the most mind-blowing moment of my 14-year career covering Apple and technology. I left the demo spe

16 min read · Jun 7 -- This morning, I spent half an hour trying the Apple Vision Pro headset. Here’s the punch line: This is one freaking mind-blowing piece of tech. I mean, when Steve Jobs unveiled

I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” building Apple constructed specifically for this experience. This was a one

Apple kicked off the 2023 edition of WWDC, its developer conference, with a 2-hour long keynote that saw the company announce the next versions of its five operating systems( iOS , watchOS , iPad OS ,

Contents It’s been a fantastic year for WebKit. We’ve shipped eight Safari releases since WWDC22, with more than 140 new web technologies in the first half of 2023 alone. Now, we are pleased to announ

It used to be just technology journalists and privacy advocates who got excited about the new privacy features that Apple would announce at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Now, data privac

Strategic leadership can often sound abstract and hard to put into words. Not only that, the majority of the CTOs, VPs and engineering leaders I work with are so busy running from meeting to meeting,

Credit... Photograph by Jamie Chung. Concept by Pablo Delcan. The Great Read Whether the platform is dying or not, it’s time to reckon with how exactly it broke our brains. Credit... Photograph by Jam

Ask yourself this: what do you want from a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? More enemy variety? Better dungeons? Totally unexpected new ideas? Or is simply more Hyrule to explore eno

In 2015, Google hatched a plan to save the mobile web by effectively taking it over. And for a while, the media industry had practically no choice but to play along. It began on a cheery October morni

When they last sat down for an interview, in November 2020, Barack Obama told Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg that disinformation is “ the single biggest threat to our democracy .” The threa

In “ The 46 Mac Apps I Actually Use and Why ” (19 April 2023), I noted that the first app I installed after my Level 2 clean install was the Web browser Brave and that, just weeks later, I replaced it

On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a license for SpaceX to launch the first orbital test of Starship, the largest rocket in human history, as soon as this Monday, April 17th. I pred

Ellis Hamburger was a reporter for The Verge between 2012 and 2014 before leaving to work at Snapchat. After leaving Snap last year, he went to work at The Browser Company. We asked Ellis to write abo

Mayor Michael Caldwell delivers his State of the City speech to his constituents. Jan 20, 2023.

Part of / You, me, and UI The Apple Lisa was not, by nearly any definition, a hit product. Released in 1983, the ambitious but flawed machine was instantly overshadowed by Apple’s follow-up, the 1984

Ten years ago ( from last Saturday ) I launched Stratechery with an image of sailboats: A simple image. Two boats, and a big ocean. Perhaps it’s a race, and one boat is winning — until it isn’t, of co