Alex Cranz

Scott Stuber, the chairman of Netflix film, is leaving the company to start his own media venture. If you’re not spending your days in the trades you likely won’t recognize his name, but Stuber is a big reason why Netflix has so many Academy Awards now.

I’m using an exclamation point to celebrate because this is exciting news if you’re an Apple Music Classical fan. Thanks to much improved metadata, the app is infinitely better than Apple Music for finding and surfacing classical music. Yet despite it being made by Apple, it’s been slow to come to the other places iOS apps usually come. That means there’s no official tvOS or iPadOS app, and there hasn’t been support for CarPlay.

I say “technically” because while the feature will finally be on phones updated to 17.3, we still don’t know what hotels and hotel groups will actually support it.

It makes sense that a new deal will see the company outfitting new and existing hardware with Starlink. That should allow people who live in the middle of nowhere to better take advantage of the high-tech tools John Deere has been packing inside recently. Because right now the rural internet situation is hellish.

President Biden was, fortunately, away when someone called this morning to claim the White House was on fire.

Phone makers keep experimenting with ways to incorporate E Ink, from secondary displays to relying on it as the only display, but its lower refresh rate can make experiences feel hampered compared to LED and OLED.