Editor-at-Large
David Pierce is The Verge's Editor-at-Large. In previous lives he worked at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. He owns all the phones.
He’s @imdavidpierce on Threads and davidpierce.11 on Signal.
Watching the intro to today’s Galaxy Unpacked event, I’m reminded of this great David Imel video answering the most important question of our time: why did everyone decide that the official logo of AI is ***sparkles***?
Ticketmaster does some pretty wild (and user-hostile) stuff in the name of stopping scalpers and bots from getting all the good tickets. And the scalpers and bots seem to always have another move. Case in point: those rotating barcodes on your ticket.
If you’ve bought a ticket, this token can be extracted from within the Ticketmaster app (or, in some cases, from Ticketmaster’s desktop website), exported to a third-party platform, and tickets can then be generated on that third-party platform.
Apple’s Vision Pro: five months later
On this episode of The Vergecast, a look back — and forward — at Apple’s headset.
The portable speakers you need this summer
Plus, in this week’s Installer: an AI app for reading anything, The Bear is back, an easy way to make websites, and much more.
The whole “my phone’s microphone is listening to me!” thing is one of my favorite internet debates. This McSweeney’s piece is very funny — and exactly correct about how it really works.
It’s not like there are hacks every day, and there will be more and more as time progresses, and some amoral lunatic on the dark web will eventually see a transcript of every in-person conversation you’ve ever had.
The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted
I thought I was buying an e-reader. And I was! But the smartphone-sized device does just enough other stuff that it now goes with me everywhere.