Nilay Patel

Did you know SiriusXM was a merger of Sirius and XM, which were incompatible satellite radio services, and lots of cars out there with older Sirius receivers still can’t get the full lineup of stations? I got into it with CEO Jennifer Witz on Decoder last week, and mentioned that people have been asking for the popular Road Trip Radio station to be moved to the Sirius bands for years now.

Marques shows the comparison clearly here and points out that Ready Player One is also a pretty dystopian story to lean on. I’ll go one farther: it’s a weird reference for a product Apple is trying to position as augmented reality, not VR. But in the end: it’s a headset, you know? This is the headset shot.

Apple’s new headset made the splashiest debut during WWDC 2023, so don’t miss Nilay Patel telling you (outside of podcasts, editorials, and comments) what it’s like to wear one before the Vision Pro is released early next year.

This video pulling back the curtain on the shark-infested waters of the creator ecosystem is so good, and so revealing. One thing I try not to take for granted here at The Verge is that we are built on decades of ethics policies and snooty journalism arguments about background policies and so on — most independent creators just get thrown into the deep end, and the machine preys on it.

I’ve used Gmail in Mailplane for years but it’s been getting slower ever since official support went away. Mimestream is a native Mac app so the speed is a huge relief and — crucially — the app lets me navigate my inbox just by hitting the delete key. I’m in love.

The Washington Post charts the startling increase in laws that threaten school librarians with prison for distributing books the government doesn’t like. Librarians. Prison. Don’t take the bait about free speech on platforms without bringing this up, you know?