The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Tesla’s new virtual power plant lets Texans sell electricity back to the grid [1237d]
• Google is letting businesses try out client-side encryption for Gmail [1237d]
• Epic is giving away free games daily for the holidays — again [1237d]
• Elon Musk is offering the generous opportunity to invest in Twitter at $54.20 [1237d]
• Democrats plan to return over $1 million from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried [1237d]
• Netflix’s Dragon Age show is a fun romp without the games’ emotional stakes [1237d]
• Marvel Snap will let you play against friends ‘in the next month or two’ [1237d]
• 13 predictions for tech platforms in 2023 [1237d]
• The Polestar 3 will keep an eye on you [1237d]
• Apple, Google, and Mozilla are teaming up to make a next-gen browser benchmark [1237d]
• Anker’s Eufy deleted these 10 privacy promises instead of answering our questions [1237d]
• Sony is making a multiplayer Horizon game [1237d]
• Apple’s rumored NFL Sunday Ticket deal might not happen this year [1237d]
• Elon Musk temporarily suspends Twitter Spaces after being confronted by banned journalist [1237d]
• How to upgrade to the new Apple Home architecture [1237d]
• Cruise’s robotaxis are under investigation for sudden braking and blocking traffic [1237d]
• Waymo’s driverless robotaxis are now doing airport trips in Phoenix [1237d]
• How to get your news fix now that Twitter sucks [1237d]
• Snag a refurbished Sonos Beam soundbar for $80 off [1237d]
• Unpleasant weather brings out unpleasant emotions on social media, study shows [1237d]
• Amazon Echo Show 15 review: Alexa’s on your wall [1237d]
• A stealthy startup led by Tidal’s former COO plans to turn throwback tracks into modern hits [1237d]
• The first teaser for the Barbie movie shows that life in plastic is fantastic [1237d]
• Henry Cavill to star in live-action Warhammer project for Amazon [1237d]
• HTC will announce a lightweight Meta Quest competitor at CES [1237d]
• Fortnite just kicked off its latest anime collab with My Hero Academia [1237d]
• Motorola ThinkPhone leak shows off a Lenovo ThinkPad-like phone [1237d]
• New Pokémon series will feature Scarlet and Violet starters [1237d]
• Steam’s annual winter sale kicks off next week [1237d]
• Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon [1238d]
• The Accord will be Honda’s first car to offer Google built-in [1238d]
• Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter [1238d]
• Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet [1238d]