Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In early 2019, Michele Turner sat down for dinner with her colleague Grant Erickson. Joining them at the restaurant in Silicon Valley’s Woodside were two of the

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This week, I want to break from our usual format and respond to the fairly unusual global events. I expect a lot of my readers are trying to get a grasp on what is happening right now in Ukraine and i

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Last month The Information published an intriguing report about Facebook’s decision to cancel its own ground-up OS for virtual and augmented reality — a project known internally as “XROS” — in favor o

372 reads What is The Open Web and Why is it Dying? February 10th 2021 4m by 372 reads Too Long; Didn't Read Part 1: How your user experience changes for the worse as the open web gives way to walled

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(Pierre Borthiry / Unsplash) Programming note: I’m planning to take Wednesday off the newsletter so I can focus on a panel I’m moderating at Pivot Con in Miami. (I’ll be interviewing Parler CEO George

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It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time th

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(Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald) Perhaps not surprisingly given that Joe Biden is president, the Bipartisan Immigration Framework that seems likely to become law is a big win for Amtrak.

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Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge My guest today is Dave Limp, the SVP of devices and services at Amazon — or, more simply, the guy in charge of Alexa. Dave’s group at Amazon also inc

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