Phil Spencer isn’t your friend
The Xbox head uses his gamer image to sell terrible corporate decisions
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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A critical tech reading list for mid-2024
13 book recommendations to get you through the next few months
Roundup: How bias can creep into tech coverage
Read to the end for a perfect example of worst person you know just made a great point
Embrace the splinternet
We’re being told to pick between US and Chinese tech. What if we don’t choose either?
Roundup: Should we ditch smartphones?
Read to the end for Ridley Scott not doing a George Lucas
The Vision Pro is a big flop
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitability
Hollywood is reviving its war on piracy
As the streaming deal gets worse, people are going back to piracy. The industry wants to stop them.
Roundup: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover team
Read to the end for a video of Musk proving he may be a simulation after all
Elon Musk is using Twitter to defend Brazil’s fascists
The fight shows countries will no longer put up with the drawbacks of unregulated social media