Search engines are dying
The optimisers are outwitting the engines. Now it's easy to find 'something' but hard to find a specific thing.
Just because we can...
Dyson's new air purifier raises big questions about form, function, and the just plain freaky.
A cultural event horizon
Twitter showed its best and worst during the Smith/Rock Oscars incident.
Bad laws ignored badly
One year on, the News Media Bargaining Code has failed to stand up for those who needed it most.
Exploring the Backrooms
William Gibson's 'The Footage' meets a horror liminal space meme and I love it.
Cringe du jour
The memes are on the attack, but happiness has other ideas.
Emailing through the info wars
The digital iron curtain can't hold back manual messaging systems
Apple AirPods are on Amazon at their best prices yet
Both AirPods and AirPods Pro are seeing significant discounts on Amazon, making it a great time to buy.
Stu-Stu-Studio
Apologies to Phil Collins...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
