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Five different homescreens from a single phone.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 73, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, belated happy Pokémon Day, and also you can read all the old […]

Open access, digital memory, and the politics of piracy

Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran at the opening for the exhibit Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York on February 20th, 2025.

Since its founding in 2007, the Mumbai-based collaborative studio CAMP has used surveillance, TV networks, and digital archives to examine how we move through and record the world. In addition to their film and video […]

SoundCloud Tops Legitary Music Streaming Accuracy Ranking

SoundCloud partnerships

Photo Credit: SoundCloud Which music streaming platform is delivering the most reliable data on play counts? In a surprising turn of events, SoundCloud has emerged as the leader in Legitary’s latest DSP transparency and accuracy […]

YouTube makes huge update to how videos are used for AI training

YouTube AI opt-in feature

YouTube has just made a huge update to how videos are used for AI training by letting creators opt-in to letting companies scrape their videos. Ever since the Generative AI hype train began taking off […]

California’s “Click-to-Cancel” Law Makes it Easier to Unsubscribe

Television with Netflix, Peacock, and AppleTV icons.

Are you subscribed to a million different subscription services? I definitely know I am. The list seems neverending, from streaming services to mobile music providers to computer software. With so many subscriptions, it is only […]

Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn’t know how to play them: ‘I struggled’

Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn't know how to play them: 'I struggled'

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones to Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch — the integration of […]

Will you watch this 38-hour-long Beverly Hillbillies YouTube video?

Russ Hoover sitting in a room full of nerd memorabilia, including a Garfield. He has a very serious expression.

There’s an art to making an ultra-long YouTube video. For one, you have to make sure it’s broken up into digestible, complete chunks so that people can take natural-feeling breaks. Second, you have to use […]

From Earning $25 Million For Documentary To Becoming The Youngest Person To Win Two Oscars, Her Splendid Fortune Screams “You Should See Me In A Crown”

Two-Time Oscar Winner Billie Eilish Net Worth 2024

Here’s How Much Two-Time Oscar Winner Billie Eilish Is Worth!(Photo Credit –Instagram) Billie Eilish, the American singer and songwriter who won her second Academy Award on Sunday at the 96th Oscars, has become the youngest […]

The unlikely way Swifties are scoring cheap accommodation ahead of tour

The unlikely way Swifties are scoring cheap accommodation ahead of tour

As the excitement for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour reaches a fever pitch in Australia, fans are facing a significant hurdle: the soaring costs of accommodation.  With sold-out shows in Melbourne and Sydney, a recent Australian Financial Review report compared […]