The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Ring’s new TV show sounds like a dystopian America’s Funniest Home Videos [1088d]
• Amazon finally added a good slideshow feature to the Echo Show [1088d]
• Rivian reports more losses in the second quarter of 2022 [1088d]
• You can turn Meta’s chatbot against Mark Zuckerberg [1088d]
• Go read this report on ByteDance employees with ties to Chinese state media [1088d]
• Telegram founder blames Apple for holding back a major update [1088d]
• Google is letting some people launch cloud games directly from search results [1088d]
• The 2022 Motorola Razr is only launching in China, but we want it, too [1088d]
• Here’s how the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 compares to last year’s Z Fold 3 [1088d]
• Opioid addiction treatment is collateral damage in online prescription backlash [1088d]
• Goku’s maybe getting a gun... in Fortnite [1088d]
• Anker’s new 24,000mAh portable battery can fast charge a 16-inch MacBook Pro [1088d]
• Heat pumps: what they do and why they’re hot now [1088d]
• Kirby’s Dream Buffet will feast on the Nintendo Switch very soon [1088d]
• Ethereum’s big proof-of-stake blockchain switch could happen on September 15th [1088d]
• Acura’s first electric SUV will have one of the brightest EV grilles yet [1088d]
• Rick and Morty are getting into the podcast game in first season 6 trailer [1088d]
• Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails [1088d]
• The FTC is pushing for changes to how Big Tech handles data [1088d]
• iRobot’s excellent Roomba i3 EVO is available refurbished for $170 off today [1088d]
• Bricked Epson printers make a strong case for user repairability [1088d]
• How Nokia ringtones became the first viral earworms [1088d]
• Facebook begins testing default end-to-end encryption on Messenger [1088d]
• The speakeasy economy of WeChat [1088d]
• This Mac hacker’s code is so good, corporations keep stealing it [1088d]
• Pirates of Khadda Market [1088d]
• Apple is reportedly funding podcasts that it could one day turn into TV shows [1089d]
• Intel shares 48 benchmarks to show its Arc A750 can compete with an RTX 3060 [1089d]
• Google Fiber isn’t dead, it’s expanding [1089d]
• Google Search will stop telling you when Snoopy assassinated Abe Lincoln [1089d]