December 31, 2019 Samsung Is Making the Best Phones Last year after a somewhat lackluster product cycle, I said Samsung couldn’t afford to hold back anymore. And in 2019, it seems Samsung took…
December 31, 2019 Netflix claims The Witcher is already one of its most popular shows of 2019 Image: Netflix Netflix released its list of the most popular movies and TV shows of 2019 and, with the exception of Disney Pixar’s Incredibles…
December 31, 2019 In 2019 cameras got much better, but the market still crashed For cameras and photographers, 2019 was another banner year… but for manufacturers? Not so much. Sales were down in all categories as of mid-year…
December 31, 2019 What The Witcher Gets Wrong (and Right) About Disability Narratives The world of fantasy has been one of the few genres to regularly include disabled characters, though this inclusion has always come with the…
December 31, 2019 The Witcher’s success is held back by Netflix’s release strategy in a post-Game of Thrones world The Witcher has everything it needs to be Netflix’s next success: popular source material, a massive marketing campaign, a well-received performance by Henry Cavill,…
December 31, 2019 Smoke app brings the Steam store to your Apple Watch If you can't bear to be away from Steam for a moment least you miss one of its famously great sales, then Smoke, a…
December 31, 2019 The Witcher’s success is held back by Netflix’s release strategy in a post-Game of Thrones world The Witcher has everything it needs to be Netflix’s next success: popular source material, a massive marketing campaign, a well-received performance by Henry Cavill,…
December 31, 2019 No one is ready for California’s new consumer privacy law Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The California Consumer Privacy Act goes into effect January 1st, and it doesn’t look like anyone, even…
December 31, 2019 Brazil hits Facebook with $1.6 million Cambridge Analytica fine The Cambridge Analytica data scandal may have come to light nearly two years ago, but the former company — and as a result, Facebook…
December 31, 2019 Open Channel: The Best Tweets of the Decade That Still Haven’t Been Deleted Over a decade in, the value proposition of Twitter as a medium is murky, not easily defined—though one area it undoubtedly excels is allowing…