Jay Peters
Vergecast fans might recognize a familiar voice in the trailer for Netflix’s Juul documentary.
You won’t have to listen for long to hear who it is.
Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul comes out on October 11th.
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Ubisoft just sneakily announced The Division 3.
The company made the news in a blog post about the appointment of Julian Gerighty to head up The Division’s brand. Gerighty will move into the role after Ubisoft ships Star Wars: Outlaws in 2024 — he’s serving as creative director on that game.
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Widget spinner.
Christian Selig, the creator of the now-shuttered Apollo app for Reddit, has a devious new widget for his Pixel Pals app. And he says that it’s the “smallest hint of the fun to come.”
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It’s battery cycle season, I guess.
Apple is adding battery cycle counts to the iPhone 15 series, and now Android expert Mishaal Rahman reports that Android 14’s QPR1 (Quarterly Platform Release) beta adds a cycle count to Android’s settings. You should scan through his whole thread of interesting updates that are in the beta, including a new “repair mode” feature.
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Glen Schofield, the director of The Callisto Protocol, is leaving the Krafton-owned studio that he founded that made the game.
Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier has the story. The Callisto Protocol was a big bet by Krafton (the company behind PUBG), but the game had some issues and apparently didn’t sell as well as Krafton wanted.
You can read more about Schofield’s approach to the game in our interview from 2022.
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