Published on: 2025-06-06 16:35:14
Don’t abandon your OG Switch just yet, even if you’re jonesing to break the seal on your new Nintendo Switch 2 in the coming days. Overnight, Nintendo dropped a heap of updates to its original Switch games in time for its sequel handheld’s Thursday launch. There’s more beyond compatibility patches streaming to your favorite Switch games for the updated hardware. GameShare may help your Switch 2 become a portal for playing with friends on their older hardware with just a single copy of a game. He
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 20:00:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. A lot of Polygon’s staff was laid off following Vox Media’s sale of the publication to Valnet, but two of its former guides writers are launching their own guides-focused website: Big Friendly Guide, which you can find at bigfriendly.guide. Ryan Gilliam and Jeffrey Parkin founded and are co-owners of the site. Guides make Gilliam “feel like I’m helping someone enjoy something
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 16:38:43
Nintendo is gearing up for the launch of the Switch 2 on June 5, and to ensure you’re ready to go when the console arrives at your door, you’ll need to download the latest update for the newly renamed Nintendo Switch App. The app, which was previously called the Nintendo Switch Online app, had added a number of new features, including a more seamless screenshot interface, GameChat functionality and placeholder icons for game-specific services like Zelda Notes. The latter will become usable on la
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 00:41:56
In my social circles, becoming a parent is seen as a gigantic sacrifice. You lose sleep, time with friends, time for hobbies. You’ll probably have to move to a less desirable neighborhood to afford the extra space for your kid. If you’re the one carrying the child, you’re ‘destroying’ your body and jeopardizing your professional goals. But what if it didn’t have to be this way? An Indian friend recently told me how his parents couldn’t fathom why anyone wouldn’t want to have a child. In his pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 23:28:11
Heads‑up: The concept of this post might seem trivial, but it can improve your career, happiness, and the people you care about. Proceed without caution. It only takes about 10 minutes to read. What is “Root For Your Friends”? It’s getting excited for your friends when something good happens, and rejecting jealousy. It’s deeply believing that a rising tide lifts all boats. It’s understanding that most games in life aren’t zero‑sum; they’re wildly positive‑sum. Outcomes: If you read this pos
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Heads‑up: The concept of this post might seem trivial, but it can improve your career, happiness, and the people you care about. Proceed without caution. It only takes about 10 minutes to read. What is “Root For Your Friends”? It’s getting excited for your friends when something good happens, and rejecting jealousy. It’s deeply believing that a rising tide lifts all boats. It’s understanding that most games in life aren’t zero‑sum; they’re wildly positive‑sum. Outcomes: If you read this pos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 12:38:17
If you ask the man who has largely shaped how friends and family connect on social media over the past two decades about the future of social media, you may not get a straight answer. At the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly trial, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempted what seemed like an artful dodge to avoid criticism that his company allegedly bought out rivals Instagram and WhatsApp to lock users into Meta's family of apps so they would never post about their personal lives anywhere else. He
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 12:50:59
International Disney Parks sensation Duffy has made a comeback at Disneyland for the theme park’s 70th anniversary celebration. The bear took off at Tokyo Disney before expanding to the rest of the overseas parks, making it a must-have collectible alongside his friends. Reservations for the shop at Tokyo DisneySea, where the latest versions of the adorable stuffed animals are available, quickly sell out. I recently asked my friend who lives in Japan to pick up one of the new characters, LinaBel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 04:45:07
If the question, “Who is Meta’s biggest rival?” were on a Family Feud survey, TikTok would likely be the winning answer. In the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against the Facebook and Instagram owner, the government’s response probably wouldn’t even make the top 10: a small blockchain-based platform called MeWe. MeWe looks a fair amount like Facebook at first glance, except that you make an account using the Frequency blockchain — which the company explains is a decentralized protoco
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 08:00:30
When Adam Mosseri took over Meta-owned Instagram as CEO in 2018, the app was experiencing what he’d later call “concerning” drops and plateaus in user engagement, thanks partly to fierce competition from a new app: TikTok. Instagram estimated in 2019 that 23 percent of the decline in time spent on Instagram in the US was due to TikTok. Bytedance’s video app kept expanding through the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. “We can’t explain it all, but what’s clear at this point is that we need to adapt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 10:34:36
FractalU is a “school” for adults, taught from living rooms in New York City. We’ve run over 100 classes and taught thousands of students. Classes meet weekly and are held on evenings and weekends, since most of our students and teachers are working professionals. Here's a small sampling of our recent courses: We teach out of our homes, and keep the administrative burden low. That way, teachers can offer their classes at affordable rates. And adult students can make taking classes and learni
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 21:37:26
I somehow escaped having an Instagram account. This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with. I feel very blessed. Still, Instagram hasn’t completely escaped me. And it bugs me. My wife and I live a pretty social life. My wife’s job required us to temporarily move to a place far away from home.
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I somehow escaped having an Instagram account. This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with. I feel very blessed. Still, Instagram hasn’t completely escaped me. And it bugs me. My wife and I live a pretty social life. My wife’s job required us to temporarily move to a place far away from home.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 11:13:45
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings. In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel this week, Zuckerberg asserted that more people should be connecting with chatbots on a social level — because, in a striking line of argumentation, they don't have enough real-life friends. When asked if AI chatbots can help fight the loneliness epidemic, the billionaire painted a dystopian vision o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 23:41:21
February 2025 Issue Carolyn Bruckmann, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ‘25 The so-called “Friendship Recession” is making its way into the vernacular—a profound shift in how Americans experience and sustain friendships. The data paints a stark picture. According to the American Perspectives Survey, the percentage of U.S. adults who report having no close friends has quadrupled to 12% since 1990, while the percentage of those with ten or more close friends has fallen by nearly threefold. The foundat
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February 2025 Issue Carolyn Bruckmann, Harvard Kennedy School MPP ‘25 The so-called “Friendship Recession” is making its way into the vernacular—a profound shift in how Americans experience and sustain friendships. The data paints a stark picture. According to the American Perspectives Survey, the percentage of U.S. adults who report having no close friends has quadrupled to 12% since 1990, while the percentage of those with ten or more close friends has fallen by nearly threefold. The foundat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-14 06:49:34
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet Have you ever walked into a supermarket, pharmacy, or department store looking to buy a specific item, only to find the layout confusing? Perhaps you ended up aimlessly strolling around, purchasing other items? This is deliberate, and known as the Gruen Transfer. The 'Transfer' part is the moment that you, as a consumer surrounded by a deliberately confusing layout, lose track of your original intentions. We've all experienced it, and now it's star
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-15 15:30:00
It can be overwhelming to think about all the ways you might improve your home. There's the long-planned kitchen renovation, the appliance upgrades -- and oh, maybe solar panels on the roof. But you probably don't have unlimited time and money, so you have to prioritize which upgrades are most important to you. And if you're renovating with the idea of sustainability in mind (increasing efficiency and reducing fossil-fuel use), it can be even harder to choose which projects make the most sense.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 17:09:00
I’m on the hunt for the best eco-friendly cleaning products. Deep-cleaning my house used to leave me with a lot of plastic bags, paper, and plastic containers to throw away. But I’ve been trying to reduce my footprint, and for this guide I tried to find an environmentally conscious recommendation that could fit in every step of your cleaning routine, including my favorite overall: the Blueland Clean Essentials Kit ($46). Scientists are developing new ways to recycle plastic, but it's not an Ear
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 20:15:00
Summer is drawing closer, and things are about to heat up. For Marvel, the warm weather is as good a time as any to provide a blast from the past: the return of its cheeky Swimsuit Special. In the early to mid-’90s, Marvel would release these one-shots from various creative teams that would show the heroes hanging out and soaking up the sun. This new version—officially titled Marvel Swimsuit Special: Friends, Foes, & Rivals—marks its first return in 30 years. Why bring it back? Well, it probab
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 19:00:00
With the first week of Meta’s antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight into Meta’s internal struggles to keep Facebook relevant. In emails from 2022, Meta executives mulled different visions for Facebook’s future to boost its success, acknowledging that its cultural relevance was decreasing. Fast-forward to 2025, and Meta is still grappling with this issue. Mark Zuckerberg said during the company’s Q4 earnings call in January tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-18 11:00:00
This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire. It might be years before the nearly 3 billion users of the company’s flagship app Facebook—known internally as the Blue app—learn the fate of the service they still use, despite the constant obituaries. (For the record, two years ago, Tom Alison, who heads the service, issued a statement affirming “Facebook is not dead nor dying.”) But with all the hubbub surroundi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 08:00:00
This week, Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in an antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of Meta’s social networking empire. It might be years before the nearly 3 billion users of the company’s flagship app Facebook—known internally as the Blue app—learn the fate of the service they still use, despite the constant obituaries. (For the record, two years ago, Tom Alison, who heads the service, issued a statement affirming “Facebook is not dead nor dying.”) But with all the hubbub surroundi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 12:00:19
The creators of Sunderfolk wanted to make a video game that would help players “Rediscover game night.” By my reckoning, they have succeeded, because I am now regularly arguing with good friends over stupid moves. Why didn’t I pick up that gold? Don’t you see how ending up there messed up an area attack? Ah, well. That kind of friendly friction, inside dedicated social time, only gets harder to come by as you get older, settle into routines, and sometimes move apart. I’ve hosted four Sunderfolk
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-21 12:56:53
The Meta monopoly trial has raised a question that Meta hopes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can't effectively answer: How important is it to use social media to connect with friends and family today? Connecting with friends was, of course, Facebook's primary use case as it became the rare social network to hit 1 billion users—not by being acquired by a Big Tech company but based on the strength of its clean interface and the network effects that kept users locked in simply because all the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 08:40:41
Get out of my <head> Make faster, more accessible, more environmentally friendly websites, by removing these tags from your site's <head>.
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads. These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the years as he built his social media empire. Over the past two days, he talked about
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-26 23:56:18
Suppose you have an API route that returns some data as JSON: app . get ( ' /api/likes/:postId ' , async ( req , res ) => { const postId = req . params . postId ; const [ post , friendLikes ] = await Promise . all ([ getPost ( postId ), getFriendLikes ( postId , { limit : 2 }), ]); const json = { totalLikeCount : post . totalLikeCount , isLikedByUser : post . isLikedByUser , friendLikes : friendLikes , }; res . json ( json ); }); You also have a React component that needs that data: function
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 04:24:59
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting everyone’s Facebook friends in an effort to boost the social network’s cultural relevance. This “potentially crazy idea,” as the exec called it at the time, was revealed on Monday as a part of the evidence introduced during the first day of the U.S. government’s antitrust trial against Meta. In one message to Meta employees in 2022, Zuckerberg proposed the strategy of “wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again” as a possible solution
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-27 12:41:00
In brief: If you think Facebook has strayed far from its roots as a platform that connected friends and family, you're not alone. Even Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shares this view. He also considered purging every friend from users' accounts in 2022 and having them start from scratch. Zuckerberg was on the witness stand on Monday to defend Meta against a case brought by the FTC in 2022. The agency alleges the company created a market-dominating monopoly when it bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsAp
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