Billie Eilish — hostage
Eerie and dark
A look inside China’s number 1 phone manufacturer
How Oppo hopes to expand beyond China’s Silicon Valley
SNES Classic (PAL)
★★★★☆ — As you’d expect
FIFA 18 for Nintendo Switch
★★★☆☆ — It’s FIFA…almost
I just want more battery
The iPhone X still doesn’t have a great battery. The iPhone X still doesn’t have a great battery.
Taylor Swift — …Ready For It?
Eh…
Facebook makes News Feed less blue
Facebook is rolling out a minor update to its mobile News Feed, starting today. The update makes comment threads look more like Messenger threads, with grey bubbles and more realtime feedback. The app is also becoming less blue on screens that branch off from the main News Feed page. Profile
Deadspin publishes an extensive look at SB Nation’s “Army Of Exploited Workers”
From Deadspin: These sites are run by managers who are expected to post articles and videos, track and sometimes break news, manage writers, conduct interviews, assign stories, find contributors, edit posts, write analysis, and generally do the work of journalism. These responsibilities can add up to a demanding job — or,
Medium loses Bill Simmons ‘The Ringer’ to Vox Media platform
The Ringer is officially off Medium, with the site now hosted via Vox Media’s Chorus CMS. Vox Media Design Director Yesenia Perez-Cruz wrote about the change on the Vox Product Blog, saying that: You’ll see a brand new homepage tailored for different editorial scenarios, highlighted podcast and video
The Awl leaves Medium, turns off the platform’s lights
In a post titled ‘Something’s Different’, Awl editor Silvia Killingsworth has confirmed that The Awl and other sites in The Awl network (The Hairpin, Billfold) have moved back to Wordpress. In April of last year Medium announced that several publications would be moving to their platform. Back then The
How to get scammed on Gumtree
Looking a scam right in the eyes I was really, really close to being scammed yesterday on Gumtree, which makes me sound like a huge moron. And in a way I was a huge moron. But still, the scheme was actually pretty advanced and…
HTC U11
I took some photos of this glass giant
Apple Music Connect is goin’ off
Gawker.com for sale
From The Wall Street Journal this morning
New: SplinterNews.com
Fusion.net, a low-traffic site originally designed to supplement “millennial” cable TV network Fusion TV, has relaunched. The site has stumbled through a strange serious of rebrands over the past few…
New: Xbox One X
A smaller, more powerful Xbox