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Jay Peters

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    Look at those RGB stripes.

    RGB stripe subpixel arrangements are the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors, and my colleague Antonio took some great photos of Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM monitor at CES so you can see the arrangement on a real monitor. Sean snapped a few photos of RBG stripe screens, too.

    A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout.
    A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout.
    A photo of Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM monitor.
    A photo of Asus’s ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM monitor.
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    The monitor up close...
    Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    Who will be Apple’s next CEO?

    Apple is stepping up succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, and hardware chief John Ternus could be the lead pick, according to a New York Times profile. However, the publication says Cook is “also preparing several other internal candidates.”

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    Jay Peters
    The Switch’s Hulu app is being discontinued.

    “The Hulu app is no longer available in the Nintendo Switch eShop with support for the application ending on February 5, 2026,” Nintendo says in a support document. It originally launched way back in 2017.

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    Jay Peters
    Rinkside at the Olympics.

    During the Winter Olympics next month, Peacock will expand on features like multiview and its whiparound Gold Zone show with curated “Rinkside Live” behind-the-scenes angles. For some figure skating events that will add a Coaching Cam view during the routines, as well as a view of team benches during some hockey games.

    Images of screenshots of the Winter Olympics on Peacock.
    Image: NBCUniversal
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    Jay Peters
    Indie studio Heart Machine shut down its Patreon.

    Last year, Heart Machine told me it was experimenting with Patreon because “money is tough to come by.” But in a late December post, Heart Machine said it’s pausing the Patreon because “our current projects are too nascent for us to provide updates or ongoing material that would make this Patreon feel meaningful or worthwhile.” (I have the post in email; the Patreon is now inaccessible.)

    Trying Patreon out “gave us a lot of insight, and reconnecting more directly with the community was genuinely valuable and so meaningful to us.”