Daring Fireball

Jeff Bezos:…

The New York Times:…

You’ll never guess what city this happened in.  ★ 

Helpful page for Chrome users from the EFF:…

Dieter Bohn, also doing some real work at The Verge today:…

Nilay Patel, doing some actual work at The Verge for once:…

The New York Times:…

Stephen Hackett:…

I don’t see the appeal of this dingus at all. It’s magnetic, and it works with MagSafe iPhones, but the charger itself doesn’t support MagSafe. It’s just a lousy 5W Qi charger that has a circle of magnets to help it stay in place — charging is…

Today is Jackie Robinson Day in MLB. To celebrate, here’s the great Buck O’Neil sharing a Jackie Robinson story with David Letterman. Quite a few lessons here that are as apt today as they were then.  ★ 

GSMArena on a new report from Ming-Chi Kuo:…

The University of Oxford:…

Miles Parks, reporting for NPR:…

YouGov:…

Kosta Eleftheriou on Twitter:…

Fun, fair, and informative video from Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal on the showdown between Apple and Facebook (and war of words between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg) over iOS 14.5’s imminent crackdown on surveillance advertising. Or as Nicole…

Great review from Marques Brownlee — as ever — of one of the most interesting Android phones on the market.…

Katie Robertson, reporting for The New York Times:…

Congratulations to everyone who ran Al Franken — clearly the best and most engaging communicator the Democrats have had since Bill Clinton — out of the Senate over a bunch of bullshit that everyone now regrets. But, on the other hand, if he were…

Todd Vaziri: Twin Pines Mall became Lone Pine Mall after Marty changed the future in “Back to the Future” (1985). Is that an Easter Egg or a Thing in the Movie? Let’s find out! Great Scott is this well-done.  ★ 

Remember RCS — the cross-platform successor to SMS that (supposedly) had the support of all the U.S. carriers and Google? A supposedly modern messaging protocol that wasn’t going to support end-to-end encryption — and something that Apple never…

Looks familiar, can’t quite put my finger on where I’ve seen something like this before…  ★ 

Welp, there goes my idea for a modern DF redesign. Back to the drawing board. (Via Craig Mod.)  ★ 

Chris Welch, writing for The Verge:…

Jacob Kaplan-Moss:…

Long story rendered very short, Taylor Swift does not own the rights to her first six albums, and isn’t happy about that. She faithfully re-recorded the entirety of her second album, Fearless, and just released the new version as Fearless: Taylor’s…

Derek Thompson, writing for The Atlantic:…

Craig Mod, writing for Wired:…

Always happy to see homage to the one true Apple logo. As for any meaning to the name or design, my take is that it means nothing and thus means something: that the things getting announced are all mostly unrelated to each other.  ★ 

Rebecca Wind, on Twitter:…