I took a foldable phone to New York City’s first ever microdrama film festival to see if the entertainment industry’s investment in vertical video will clash with the wider aspect ratio screens of the iPhone Duo and Galaxy Z Fold 8.
Though Netflix originals The Pete Davidson Show and The White House with Michael Irvin look and feel like a podcast, they lack a lot of features podcast listeners are used to, like RSS feed downloads and chapter markers. Here’s my take.
This week we saw Lorde fans having trouble playing the CD version of Virgin because of its recyclable transparent design. I had some positive results playing from traditional clamshell players, but not so much with slot-style CD player mechanisms like in car stereos and game consoles.
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Bluetooth headphones these days are computers, and Nothing’s over-the-ear headphones will always remind you of that.
Nintendo let us try out a bunch of modes in Mario Kart World last week — and playing in a race of 24 characters I got my butt whooped.
I’m looking forward to just driving streets in Free Roam mode, though.
Google’s NotebookLM can turn any document into a conversation between two chatbots. Is this the future of podcasting?