Além da Meta, a Microsoft utilizou esse sistema de solicitações de interoperabilidade da UE para pedir à Apple suporte à função de copiar e colar entre dispositivos, abrangendo iPhones e PCs com Windows.
Conforme detalhado na página do pedido, disponível no portal Apple Developer, a empresa descreveu o recurso da seguinte forma:
Copiar texto ou outro conteúdo compatível no iPhone e colá-lo diretamente no PC com Windows, e vice-versa.
Executar fluxos de trabalho comuns de produtividade sem precisar colocar um aplicativo em primeiro plano ou realizar ações repetidas e explícitas para iniciar uma transferência.
Acessar a sincronização da área de transferência como um recurso contínuo e leve, em vez de uma operação manual dependente de aplicativos.
À época em que comentamos o pedido da Meta, as informações eram de que a Apple havia colocado o pedido da Microsoft na fase II — o que significa que seus engenheiros estavam avaliando a possibilidade, sem um comprometimento de implementação. Mais recentemente, a Maçã moveu o pedido para a fase III — indicando que a companhia começará a desenvolver um recurso que atenda ao pedido da Microsoft.
Estranhamente, o cronograma exibido na página do pedido indica que essa mudança para a fase III aconteceu em junho — ou seja, antes mesmo da divulgação das informações sobre a fase II. Pode ser, porém, que a Apple tenha atualizado sua página retroativamente com o progresso do pedido, já que em meados de julho a página não indicava a mudança para a fase III ainda.
Não obstante, o fato é que a solução proposta pela Apple exige a adoção do frameworkAccessorySetupKit para sincronizar os dados da área de transferência entre as duas plataformas — de modo que, após emparelhar um PC com Windows a um iPhone, será necessário conceder permissão uma única vez para que os dois dispositivos possam compartilhar conteúdos.
Ademais, a Apple observou que, dada a complexidade de engenharia envolvida, a conclusão do desenvolvimento do recurso deverá acontecer só no outono (do hemisfério norte) de 2027. Além disso, ele será disponibilizado inicialmente em uma versão beta para desenvolvedores, visando testes antes do lançamento oficial. Caso a funcionalidade comece a ser testada próximo ao fim de 2027, o acesso pelos usuários em geral poderá ocorrer apenas no início de 2028 (em futuras atualizações do iOS 28, portanto).
Vale notar, por fim, que assim como muitas das mudanças motivadas pela DMA, a Apple poderá lançar a sincronização da área de transferência entre iPhones e PCs com Windows (inicialmente?) apenas na UE.
This week, John and Federico discuss the changing face of the AI-fueled App Store and questionable changes made to TestFlight before going into the nerdiest details of Open Minis, an iOS app that brings desktop-class agents onto the iPhone and iPad.
Then on AppStories+, Federico and John explore Cmux, a Mac terminal app with an iPhone and iPad beta that makes it easier than ever to sync coding projects across devices.
This week, the refreshingly complete announcement by Anbernic of the RG SP, Ticci buys a handheld, and people are tired of months-long hardware reveals.
We have a guest! D. Griffin Jones is here to show the gang technology they could only dream of: the MessagePad. After that, we look at the brand new Pastebot 3 and the surprisingly useful Clop, and we close it out by trying to sell Niléane on a 3D printer.
This week’s Cozy Zone is all about the games we’ve been enjoying lately.
This week, John realizes that too much Wi-Fi is never enough, Federico wonders what he’s going to do with a Linux PC, and John recommends Apple TV’s Lucky.
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Playing as recent arrival Lena, your challenges include learning a new language and uncovering family secrets – its developer hopes it will spread ‘a little more compassion’
The cosy house-sorting sim has become a much-loved staple of the PC indie scene. Titles such as Unpacking, A Little to the Left and Momento charm players with their detailed interiors and quiet narratives of lives lived and shared within the same four walls. For Clean Start, Polish developer Serious Sim has taken a different approach – here you play as domestic cleaner, Lena, an immigrant who has arrived in an unspecified western country with little knowledge of the local language, and a family to support back home.
From here, you’re tasked with cleaning a series of houses and apartments, polishing tables, tidying shelves and scrubbing muddy pawprints from kitchen floors. It seems you’re able to rearrange the rooms, giving them a personal feel, which is after all one of the most pleasing elements of the genre. You can also, we are reassured, pet the dog.
Hidden gems can be unearthed, but you have to dig deep into the bargain bins of countless outdated Fifas, Wii Fits without the controllers and partially finished quizshow games
As an eternally optimistic charity shop fan, I hold on to the fantasy that one day I’ll walk into my local Oxfam and find a pristine copy of the Sega Saturn shooter Burning Rangers for £1.50. Or perhaps a box full of old Neo Geo carts for a quid each. Sadly, this is now unlikely. Charity shops have caught on to the fact that old video games – like old vinyl albums – are highly collectible, and so they’re putting the good stuff on eBay. That’s fine, it’s their job to raise money, not to provide opportunist swine like me with bargains. But what games can you find tucked away in your local branch of Barnardo’s? To find out I visited about 40 charity stores across the country. Here is what I discovered on the shelves … And please do share your own charity shop gaming finds in the comments!
One of the most striking discoveries in condensed matter physics over the past few years is that simply rotating one atomically thin crystal on top of an identical layer can create entirely new electronic behavior. This idea became famous in 2018, when physicists found that graphene sheets stacked at a very particular “magic angle” could turn into a superconductor, even though a single sheet of graphene is not. That discovery launched an entire field, sometimes called twistronics, built around moiré patterns: the large-scale interference patterns that appear when two crystal lattices are laid on top of each other with a slight mismatch in angle or spacing. In many materials, these patterns reshape how electrons move, sometimes producing superconductivity or other exotic collective states.
Moiré collapse
Most of this research has focused on materials whose crystal structure looks roughly the same in every direction, such as graphene, where the interesting physics shows up only at very small twist angles, close to perfect alignment. Now, a team of researchers instead looks at a strongly directional material: bilayer black phosphorus, whose atomic structure behaves very differently along two perpendicular directions in the plane, somewhat like a fabric that stretches easily one way but not the other. That built-in directionality turns out to change the whole logic of moiré physics, producing an effect the authors call moiré collapse. 1
Moiré collapse in twisted anisotropic homobilayers. Source: D. J. P. de Sousa et al. (2026) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2527371123 / fair use
In black phosphorus, the two layers start out rotated 90 degrees relative to each other. As that angle is dialed away from 90 degrees, the moiré pattern does something unusual. Rather than staying a two-dimensional pattern, like a slowly shifting checkerboard, it stretches more and more along one direction until, at a specific angle that depends only on the material’s own geometry, it effectively stops repeating in the other direction altogether. What remains behaves like a one-dimensional crystal, even though the material is still built from ordinary two-dimensional atomic sheets. For twisted bilayer black phosphorus, the calculations place this collapse at a twist of about 71.6 degrees, or equivalently about 18.4 degrees away from the initial 90-degree arrangement.
Pure geometry
This transformation has nothing to do with how electrons repel or attract each other; it is pure geometry. The mathematical description of the moiré pattern, expressed in terms of the directions in which its periodicity repeats, is squeezed from two independent directions down to one. In ordinary space, this means the pattern keeps a well-defined repeat distance along one axis while stretching out indefinitely along the other, with no repeating pattern left in that direction at all.
Such a dramatic structural change reshapes the electrons riding on top of it. At the untwisted 90-degree configuration, the anisotropy of one layer happens to cancel out the anisotropy of the other, so electrons move about equally well in every in-plane direction. As the twist angle approaches the collapse point, that cancellation breaks down. The electron energy bands become sharply directional, and electrons increasingly travel along one preferred line rather than spreading across the plane. Their energy spectrum starts to show the telltale fingerprints of one-dimensional systems, including sharp spikes in the density of available electron states known as one-dimensional van Hove singularities.
Luttinger liquid physics
One-dimensional conductors behave very differently from ordinary metals. In a three-dimensional metal, electrons can mostly be treated as independent particles that only weakly notice one another. Confine them to a single dimension, however, and that picture stops working: electrons cannot slip past each other, so they are forced to move collectively, in a coordinated wave-like fashion. The framework that describes this collective behavior, called Luttinger liquid theory, traces back to work by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in 1950 and Joaquin Luttinger in 1963, and it has since been confirmed experimentally in systems such as carbon nanotubes. In a Luttinger liquid, the basic excitations are not single electrons at all, but collective ripples of charge and spin, and this leads to electrical transport properties that look qualitatively different from those of a normal metal.
The calculations in this study show that moiré collapse naturally sets up the conditions Luttinger liquid physics requires. As the collapse angle is approached, the one-dimensional electronic channels that form become progressively less coupled to their neighbors, making the correlated, wave-like behavior increasingly favorable. The analysis estimates a Luttinger parameter of about 0.3 for the collapsed black phosphorus system, a value indicating strong electron-electron interactions, and it predicts distinctive collective charge oscillations and unusual, non-metallic patterns in electrical conduction that could, in principle, be measured in the laboratory.
A notable feature of this mechanism is that the electron bands stay quite dispersive even at collapse, with electron speeds exceeding 100 kilometers per second. This sets it apart from most previously studied moiré systems, including twisted graphene, where strong correlations usually arise because the electronic bands become extremely flat and electrons effectively slow to a crawl. Here, the correlated behavior instead comes from the geometric collapse of the moiré lattice itself, with fast-moving electrons confined to one dimension rather than slow ones spread over two.
Moiré collapse is not a peculiarity of one material
To test these ideas, the researchers combined simplified mathematical models with detailed first-principles calculations of the atomic and electronic structure. Beyond black phosphorus, they found the same collapse in twisted bilayer tin selenide, another layered material with strongly directional bonding. The details of the electronic structure differ somewhat because of the specific atomic orbitals involved, but the same geometric collapse into quasi-one-dimensional channels appears, suggesting the phenomenon is not a peculiarity of one material but a general consequence of twisting any sufficiently anisotropic crystal.
Taken together, the findings outline a different strategy for engineering exotic quantum matter. Instead of hunting for a special magic angle that flattens electronic bands, as in twisted graphene, this approach relies on a purely geometric collapse angle at which a two-dimensional moiré material naturally turns one-dimensional. If confirmed in experiments, it would offer a new and versatile platform for studying Luttinger liquids and other correlated electronic phases that only emerge when electrons are squeezed into moving along a single line.
Author: César Tomé López is a science writer and the editor of Mapping Ignorance
Disclaimer: Parts of this article may have been copied verbatim or almost verbatim from the referenced research paper/s.
References
D. J. P. de Sousa, S. Lee, F. Guinea, and T. Low (2026) Moiré collapse and Luttinger liquids in twisted anisotropic homobilayers Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2527371123↩
Deep underground the player joins a colony of ruthlessly exploited pit workers who could be taking on the bosses. How things play out will depend on you
It is rare for video games to feature industrial action as a key theme, but it does happen. There’s the shady Dockworker’s Union in Disco Elysium and the Orbital Workers Union in space adventure Tacoma; then there is Lynx, the evil union-bashing corp in Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Soon we can add A Line Held Tight, a visual novel that puts workers’ rights – and workers’ lives – at the very centre of the narrative.
In the distant future, a colony of miners digs far beneath the surface of an isolated planet, searching for veins of some exotic ore, protected from the poisonous atmosphere within giant mech suits. But the working conditions are woeful and as a strike looms, an unpopular employee named the Canary must decide whether or not to stand with colleagues and fight against suppression. The player, of course, takes on the role of the Canary, navigating personal as well as political struggles in a world rendered in stark monochrome.
Lead-gen and ecommerce managers: two Google Ads bidding changes landed this summer. Here's what shifts, what doesn't, and which campaigns to audit first.
Está precisando ter um controle mais rígido do tempo que seus filhos usam o computador? Então instale a ferramenta de controle parental TIMEKPR no Ubuntu e resolva seu problema.
This week, AYANEO is chasing the classics again, teasing a Game Boy Advance clone, while Magmi is getting vertical – plus, a Mechanism desk stand for your handheld, 8BitDo’s FlipPad, and the GPD Win Max 3 blurs the lines between laptop and console.
On NPC XL, Brendon and John try Armada and report to listeners about whether it’s ready for prime time.
Niléane brings her newest fan (literally), Chris just assumed his co-hosts have installed the betas (they have), and they all tell each other how their respective apps could start earning millions.
This week’s Cozy Zone is a complete, and authoritative, tier listing of every Men’s World Cup logo ever.
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Turning low-energy light into higher-energy light seems to break the usual rules of physics, since energy is supposed to run downhill, not uphill. Yet a process called photon upconversion achieves exactly this, without breaking any laws of thermodynamics. Instead of absorbing one photon and releasing a single photon of lower energy, as most light-absorbing molecules do, an upconversion system absorbs two lower-energy photons and combines their energy to release one higher-energy photon. Because it takes two photons to make one, the total energy is still conserved; the trick is repackaging it into a more useful form. The phenomenon was first observed in the 1960s in simple organic mixtures cooled to very low temperatures, but it only became practical decades later, once chemists identified metal-containing dyes able to hold their excited states at room temperature. Since then, scientists have pursued upconversion as a way to make better use of sunlight, to power light-driven chemical reactions, to improve imaging inside living tissue, and to build new kinds of optoelectronic devices.
Triplet-triplet annihilation
The most developed route to upconversion relies on a process called triplet-triplet annihilation. A light-absorbing molecule known as a sensitizer first captures a low-energy photon and passes that energy to a second type of molecule, the annihilator. The annihilator settles into a triplet excited state, an unusually long-lived condition that allows it to persist until it meets a second annihilator molecule in the same state. When two such molecules collide, one drops back to its ground state while the other is pushed up into a higher-energy singlet state, from which it emits a photon of higher energy than either of the photons that started the process.
A long-standing problem with this scheme is that ordinary sensitizer molecules lose a portion of the absorbed energy internally, as the initially excited state converts into the lower-energy triplet state that gets passed along. This loss caps how large an energy jump the whole system can ultimately achieve. One promising way around the problem is to replace the conventional sensitizer with an organic radical, a molecule carrying a single unpaired electron. That unpaired electron gives radicals unusual electronic and magnetic behavior and can make the conversion from absorbed light into a usable excited state considerably more efficient, since it opens transitions that are otherwise very weak in conventional molecules.
A single hydrogen to control it all
Chemical structures of open-shell TTM-1Cz [tris(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl)methyl – 1 carbazole] , DPA (9,10-diphenylanthracene), open-shell TTM-1Cz-DPA and closed-shell HTTM-1Cz-DPA.New research examined 1 a pair of molecules built on this idea, both based on a radical component linked directly to an anthracene unit, the same type of light-emitting building block used in classic annihilators. The two molecules are nearly identical, differing at a single carbon atom: in one, that carbon carries the unpaired electron of the radical; in the other, an ordinary hydrogen atom has been added, pairing up the electron and removing the radical character entirely. That single hydrogen atom turns out to control everything. The radical version behaves as an efficient sensitizer, while the hydrogen-added version behaves as an annihilator, even though the two molecules share almost the same overall structure.
To work out why, the investigation combined light-based spectroscopy, electron spin resonance (a technique that detects unpaired electrons), and quantum chemical calculations. After the radical absorbs red light, its excitation transfers within about ten picoseconds (ten trillionths of a second) to the attached anthracene unit, creating a long-lived excited state that still carries some radical character. This internal handoff stretches the effective excited-state lifetime to more than 250 nanoseconds, roughly ten times longer than the 27 nanoseconds measured for the radical unit on its own. A longer-lived excited state gives the sensitizer far more opportunity to encounter another molecule and hand off its energy before simply decaying back to the ground state. The calculations independently pointed to the same conclusion, showing that energy transfer to a nearby annihilator proceeds far more readily through this long-lived triplet-like state than directly from the radical’s first excited state.
A mix needed
The work also tested an idea proposed in earlier research, that a single radical-containing molecule of this kind might act as both sensitizer and annihilator on its own, a so-called single-component upconversion system. The new experiments argue against this. Solutions containing only the radical molecule, across a range of concentrations, showed no detectable upconverted light, consistent with the radical’s higher excited states relaxing away too quickly for the necessary emission to compete.
Efficient upconversion instead required mixing the radical sensitizer with its hydrogen-added counterpart, or with the well-established annihilator 9,10-diphenylanthracene. Because the two molecules share nearly the same molecular framework, this two-molecule mixture is described as a “pseudo-single-component” system. Shining red light at 658 nanometres onto the radical paired with its hydrogenated twin produced blue emission at 450 nanometres, an apparent energy gain of about 0.9 electronvolts, with 7 percent of absorbed photon pairs converted into upconverted light. Pairing the same radical sensitizer with 9,10-diphenylanthracene instead produced blue emission at 437 nanometres, a slightly larger energy gain of about 1.0 electronvolt, with 12 percent efficiency. Both figures mark a large improvement over earlier all-organic radical sensitizers, which had reached efficiencies of only a few tenths of a percent, and the upconverted emission remained stable over hours of continuous illumination.
A practical strategy for photon upconversion
Beyond these specific molecules, the study illustrates how a minimal change in molecular structure, adding or removing a single hydrogen atom, can completely redirect a molecule’s photochemical role, switching it from an energy donor to an energy acceptor. Combining optical measurements, spin resonance, and computation made it possible to trace exactly why this switch occurs at the level of electronic structure, rather than simply observing that it happens.
The findings offer a clearer picture of how organic radicals can be harnessed for photon upconversion and point toward a practical strategy for building more efficient materials from radicals and their closed-shell relatives together. Such materials could eventually help capture more of the solar spectrum, drive light-powered chemical synthesis, or improve the efficiency of light-emitting technologies, by putting to use photons that would otherwise be wasted.
Author: César Tomé López is a science writer and the editor of Mapping Ignorance
Disclaimer: Parts of this article may have been copied verbatim or almost verbatim from the referenced research paper/s.
References
Kieran D. Richards, Wenzhao Wang, Philipp Thielert, James D. Green, John M. Hudson, Claire Tonnelé, David Casanova, Yoann Olivier, Timothy J. H. Hele, Sabine Richert, Feng Li, and Emrys W. Evans (2026) Open- and Closed-Shell Roles of Sensitizer and Annihilator in Pseudo-Single Component Mixtures for Upconversion Journal of the American Chemical Society doi: 10.1021/jacs.6c04090↩
Inspired by interactive theatre and fuelled by the motion capture tech used by VTubers, the vampire spies in Red Kiss have personality in spades
‘You look at the news and you’re like, ‘Another pointless war, another pointless bloodshed, another pointless genocide.’ And that can make you a bit hopeless.”
Roy van der Schilden, narrative designer and business director at Wispfire, speaks of a very human feeling. But the protagonist of its upcoming game Red Kiss can relate – despite being a vampire.
Grande parte dos vídeos que consumimos hoje vai muito além do entretenimento. Tutoriais técnicos, palestras públicas, demonstrações de produtos, treinamentos corporativos, webinars, apresentações de eventos e materiais educativos fazem parte da rotina de estudantes, profissionais e empreendedores.
Em muitos momentos, ter acesso a esse conteúdo mesmo sem conexão com a internet pode fazer toda a diferença. Mas surge uma dúvida comum: vale mais a pena utilizar uma ferramenta que funciona diretamente no navegador ou um aplicativo dedicado?
A resposta depende principalmente da forma como cada pessoa utiliza seus dispositivos e organiza seu fluxo de trabalho.
Quando uma ferramenta baseada no navegador faz mais sentido
As soluções que funcionam diretamente no navegador conquistaram muitos usuários por eliminarem uma etapa importante: a instalação.
Em poucos segundos, é possível abrir a ferramenta, utilizar seus recursos e continuar trabalhando, independentemente do computador ou do dispositivo utilizado.
Essa praticidade costuma ser especialmente útil para quem precisa acessar conteúdos em diferentes dispositivos sem depender da instalação de programas.
Acompanhar palestras e conferências online;
Consultar tutoriais técnicos durante o trabalho;
Revisar treinamentos profissionais;
Utilizar computadores compartilhados;
Alternar frequentemente entre computador, tablet e smartphone.
Nesses casos, um baixador de vídeos do YouTube baseado no navegador permite abrir a ferramenta rapidamente e acessar conteúdos públicos de forma simples, independentemente do sistema operacional utilizado.
Outro benefício importante é a compatibilidade. Como o acesso acontece pelo navegador, a experiência permanece semelhante em diferentes sistemas operacionais, facilitando o uso em qualquer dispositivo.
Quando um aplicativo pode ser a melhor escolha
Embora as ferramentas baseadas no navegador sejam extremamente práticas, existem situações em que um aplicativo dedicado oferece uma experiência diferente.
Usuários que acessam frequentemente os mesmos materiais, organizam conteúdos por categorias ou preferem manter tudo disponível em um único ambiente costumam valorizar recursos adicionais de organização e gerenciamento.
Nesse contexto, soluções como a Muka representam uma alternativa interessante para quem prefere utilizar um aplicativo em vez do navegador. Dependendo da rotina de cada pessoa, esse tipo de abordagem pode tornar o acesso aos conteúdos mais conveniente.
Além disso, aplicativos costumam facilitar a organização de arquivos locais e oferecer acesso rápido aos materiais utilizados com maior frequência.
Não existe uma solução única
Na prática, o navegador e o aplicativo resolvem necessidades diferentes.
Imagine alguns exemplos:
Um estudante universitário utiliza o computador da biblioteca para revisar uma palestra antes de uma prova.
Um empresário salva uma apresentação sobre marketing digital para consultar durante uma viagem.
Um técnico acompanha demonstrações de equipamentos enquanto trabalha em locais onde a conexão nem sempre é estável.
Outro profissional prefere manter seus materiais organizados em um aplicativo para encontrá-los rapidamente sempre que necessário.
Todos possuem objetivos semelhantes, mas desenvolvem hábitos diferentes para acessar seus conteúdos de referência.
O fator mais importante é a praticidade
Ao escolher uma solução, muitas pessoas concentram a atenção apenas nas funcionalidades. Entretanto, a facilidade de acesso costuma ser igualmente importante.
Se o objetivo é consultar rapidamente um material de referência, quanto menos etapas existirem entre o usuário e o conteúdo, melhor será a experiência.
Por isso, ferramentas baseadas no navegador continuam sendo uma excelente opção para quem valoriza simplicidade e acesso imediato, enquanto aplicativos podem oferecer uma experiência mais organizada para quem consulta os mesmos conteúdos com frequência.
Conclusão
O crescimento dos conteúdos digitais mudou a forma como aprendemos, trabalhamos e compartilhamos conhecimento. Palestras, treinamentos, demonstrações técnicas, apresentações profissionais e outros materiais de referência tornaram-se recursos importantes para milhões de pessoas.
Escolher entre uma ferramenta baseada no navegador ou um aplicativo dedicado não significa decidir qual tecnologia é superior, mas identificar qual delas se adapta melhor ao seu dia a dia.
Quando a solução acompanha a maneira como utilizamos nossos dispositivos, acessar conteúdos importantes offline torna-se um processo mais simples, eficiente e conveniente.
PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2; Undercoders Colourful, counter-cultural and captivating – this rail riding game set in a dystopian Japan is as weird as it is exhilarating
Every now and again a game appears with a premise so outrageous you stop in your tracks to take it all in. Denshattack!, a game about kickflipping trains across a dystopian future Japan, is the epitome of this feeling. Set in a post climate disaster world, people have retreated to corporate-owned domed cities to live out their days in air-conditioned, ignorant comfort. Save for a handful of outcasts, the rest of the country is a mess of broken infrastructure, where rival gangs battle it out on the ruins of Japan’s famously extensive rail network. Naive upstart Emi has one goal: become the best Denshattacker there is, one sick nosegrind at a time.
Taking the idea of an on-rails platforming game to its extreme conclusion, developers Undercoders have combined the best bits of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series – grinding, flipping and spinning through an entire dictionary of tricks – with the anti-establishment message behind Jet Set Radio. The rivals Emi encounters showcase the history of Japanese misfits, pitting you against ageing rockabillies and violent girl gangs without a shred of judgment.
This week, Federico and John look at their experiences with Claude Fable 5 and how it differs from other models and break down the controversial changes made by OpenAI to its ChatGPT Mac app.
Then on AppStories+, John and Federico contrast their experiences with Fable 5 and OpenAI’s new family of GPT 5.6 models.
This week, Brendon and John go it alone with more bizarre news from AYANEO, a new tease and OS update from Anbernic, Valve’s e-ink Steam Machine faceplate, Armada bringing SteamOS to Android handhelds, and more.
On NPC XL, John and Brendon check on handheld gaming halfway through the year and look forward to what the rest of 2026 may have in store for the hobby.
On a special Saturday edition of MacStories Unwind, Federico and John talk live music, blockbuster movies, and their ongoing experiments with Markdown text editors.
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MacStories Unwind, ‘Text Editor Experiments’ Show Notes
MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Comfort Zone, NPC: Next Portable Console, and First, Last, Everything that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.
If you’re interested in advertising on our shows, you can learn more here or by contacting our Managing Editor, John Voorhees.
This week, Federico and John talk about the 10+ email apps they’ve used over the years and how recent spikes in email volume have caused them to change their approaches.
On AppStories+, Federico and John update listeners on their summertime agentic coding projects.
This week, Steam Machine ordering follow-up and Sony’s many controversial announcements.
On NPC XL, what’s going on with AYANEO and the Pocket MICRO 2? Plus, the RG Rotate gets clock faces, and Apple brings PC gaming on the Mac closer to reality.
Chris explains how he’s using Parchment, Matt gets all in your face about calendars, and everyone competes to see who can handle using Snick for the longest.
On Cozy Zone, the gang shares their development tips and setups.
This week, John heads to the mountains while Federico cooks on a beach, the origin of “the boonies,” and narrow mountain roads, plus a TV and movie pick.
AppStories, Episode 492, ‘Email Survival Guide’ Show Notes
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Comfort Zone, Episode 108, ‘My Magic Mouse Is Pregnant’ Show Notes
For even more from the Comfort Zone crew, you can subscribe to Cozy Zone. Cozy Zone is a weekly bonus episode of Comfort Zone where Matt, Niléane, and Chris invite listeners to join them in the Cozy Zone where they’ll cover extra topics, invent wilder challenges and games, and share all their great (and not so great) takes on tech. You can subscribe to Cozy Zone for $5 per month here or $50 per year here.
MacStories Unwind, ‘Out in the Boonies’ Show Notes
MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Comfort Zone, NPC: Next Portable Console, and First, Last, Everything that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.
If you’re interested in advertising on our shows, you can learn more here or by contacting our Managing Editor, John Voorhees.
This week, Federico and John talk about the state of AI aggregator apps and their future prospects before checking in on their current AI app setups for the AppStories+ post-show.
Niléane invested in a fast-appreciating asset (air conditioner), CHRIS MADE AN APP, and everyone surprises everyone else with their favorite challenges.
On Cozy Zone, we tier list the biggest iPhone features over the year.
This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John are burning up Claude Fable 5 tokens as fast as they can, while Federico finds the time to try a brand new Switch 2 game.
AppStories, Episode 491, ‘Are AI Aggregators Worth It?’ Show Notes
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NPC XL is a weekly members-only version of NPC with extra content, available exclusively through our new Patreon for $5/month. Each week on NPC XL, Federico, Brendon, and John record a special segment or deep dive about a particular topic that is released alongside the “regular” NPC episodes. You can subscribe here.
Comfort Zone, Episode 107, ‘The Year of Our Lord, Zork’ Show Notes
For even more from the Comfort Zone crew, you can subscribe to Cozy Zone. Cozy Zone is a weekly bonus episode of Comfort Zone where Matt, Niléane, and Chris invite listeners to join them in the Cozy Zone where they’ll cover extra topics, invent wilder challenges and games, and share all their great (and not so great) takes on tech. You can subscribe to Cozy Zone for $5 per month here or $50 per year here.
MacStories Unwind, ‘Burning Tokens Before the Clock Runs Out’ Show Notes
Fable 5
Anthropic’s Fable 5 is only available on Claude subscription plans for one week, so Federico and John are making the most of the time by tuning up ongoing projects.
MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Comfort Zone, NPC: Next Portable Console, and First, Last, Everything that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.
If you’re interested in advertising on our shows, you can learn more here or by contacting our Managing Editor, John Voorhees.
This week, John and Federico are back home and reflect on all the WWDC announcements, including Siri AI, Apple Intelligence, design changes, developer tools, and more.
On AppStories+, we check in on our research setups and how they fared at WWDC.
The gang’s back together! Niléane has a new window management system, Matt wonders if Thunderbolt is too fast, and everyone recovers from letting AI take the wheel for the week.
On Cozy Zone, Niléane has a new place, and it only seemed proper to roast her new setup.
NPC XL is a weekly members-only version of NPC with extra content, available exclusively through our new Patreon for $5/month. Each week on NPC XL, Federico, Brendon, and John record a special segment or deep dive about a particular topic that is released alongside the “regular” NPC episodes. You can subscribe here.
Comfort Zone, Episode 106, ‘Matt’s Big Chonker’ Show Notes
For even more from the Comfort Zone crew, you can subscribe to Cozy Zone. Cozy Zone is a weekly bonus episode of Comfort Zone where Matt, Niléane, and Chris invite listeners to join them in the Cozy Zone where they’ll cover extra topics, invent wilder challenges and games, and share all their great (and not so great) takes on tech. You can subscribe to Cozy Zone for $5 per month here or $50 per year here.
MacStories Unwind, ‘Prime Day Deal Hunters’ Show Notes
MacStories launched its first podcast in 2017 with AppStories. Since then, the lineup has expanded to include a family of weekly shows that also includes MacStories Unwind, Magic Rays of Light, Comfort Zone, NPC: Next Portable Console, and First, Last, Everything that collectively, cover a broad range of the modern media world from Apple’s streaming service and videogame hardware to apps for a growing audience that appreciates our thoughtful, in-depth approach to media.
If you’re interested in advertising on our shows, you can learn more here or by contacting our Managing Editor, John Voorhees.
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