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Apologies to Phil Collins...
Seamus Byrne
Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.
The slow Airspeeder emergence
F1-style drone racing in the Aussie outback? Bring it on!
Moving to Substack
The next step in the evolutionary journey of the Byteside newsletter
Big Ideas
How to pitch Byteside
Your guide to delivering a great pitch to write a Byteside story so it catches our eye and delivers a well focused idea readers will love.
Health
Reflections
Paying attention to how we use our time and how we feel about our daily routines is a big part of making choices we’ll later reflect on in a more positive way.
Games
The Wordle domain move has begun and it's killing your precious streaks
Wordle's move to the New York Times website has begun. While your current game will keep its overall stats, that streak you've been working on? Hmmm...
Links to the future
There’s been a lot of great writing about AR, Web3, Metaverse, and the like, so here’s to letting you get on with exploring the curated links this week.
Technology
Samsung Galaxy S22 series: Note-orious Ultra
The latest Galaxy Unpacked event showed off the new Galaxy S22 range, with the S22 Ultra the big attention grabber.
Technology
The best phones right now
Real recommendations top to bottom. The best phones money can buy: the best iPhone, best Android, best budget phones and the best cheap as chips smartphone for under $200.
Health
The last Wordle
If this summer has taught me anything, it’s that games have great power to help us manage our mental state during difficult times.
Byteside Podcast
Inside the weird world of Devolver Digital
We talk to Devolver Digital Marketing Manager Robbie Paterson about the publisher's "developer friendly" reputation and it's wild E3 video events.
Games
Yes, Microsoft's Activision Blizzard moment is a confusing emotional rollercoaster
Business is business in the buyout of Activision Blizzard, but it makes sense fans and staff could be feeling a mess of emotions about what comes next.