Our friend Marques Brownlee ran a “which pocket do you carry your phone in” poll, and almost 600,000 later, “front right” is winning in a shocking landslide. Obviously, not everyone has such big pockets, but for those that do... apparently the official Phone Pocket is the front right. (I’m a front-lefter, personally.) Who knew!
ESPN and the NHL really hope so. They’re betting on TikTok to get younger fans engaged, primarily by helping them get to know players better. That can only mean one thing: more adorable hockey family TikToks incoming.
This is a really good read on a new study of how disinformation spreads on Wikipedia — which is maybe the internet’s single most important source of information? — and the ways the platform is trying to stop it. It’s all so much more subtle than I realized.
Ugmonk started as a T-shirt store — now founder Jeff Sheldon is trying to turn it into something much more ambitious. But as he knows, hardware is hard.
So much tech news this week! We dug into all of it, from Meta Connect to our Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch reviews to the never-ending slew of Microsoft announcements. And we all have strong feelings about the whole idea of “enterprise VR.”
In a survey first spotted by ex-Spotify users on Reddit, the company is asking people whether they’d switch back for a $19.99 a month “Platinum” tier that includes HiFi and a bunch of other features. That means, sadly, that whenever HiFi does surface it’s probably going to cost extra.
Ken Kocienda, the longtime Apple designer and current exec at Humane, dropped 12 books he recommends in a tweet thread. They’re not all tech, but they’re mostly tech, and I nodded vigorously at all the ones I’ve read before. Definitely reading Longitude this weekend, too.
Basically: it doesn’t want to compete for broadcast rights, it wants sweeping deals to build new stuff a la the MLS service coming next year. Here’s how Eddy Cue put it during a panel this week:
“There’s all kinds of capabilities that we’re going to be able to do together because we have everything together. And so if I have a great idea, I don’t have to think about, OK, well, my contract or the deal of interest will allow this.”
Ahead of the US midterm elections, The New York Times has some seriously bleak numbers:
In the poll we have in the field right now, only 0.4 percent of dials have yielded a completed interview. If you were employed as one of our interviewers at a call center, you would have to dial numbers for two hours to get a single completed interview.
Pollsters are adjusting in big ways to make sense of these tiny samples — and they’re having to dream up wholly new systems, too.
[The New York Times]
