Senior Editor
Sean is a senior editor at The Verge, a very good website he helped found in 2011. He thrives at the intersection of gaming, technology, and toys, with a side of consumer advocacy because companies just can't help themselves, can they?
Sean previously led breaking news teams at The Verge and CNET and the reviews program at Gizmodo. He also has that voice.
Ethics statement, June 2023: Sean's wife is employed by Apple as a video producer. He therefore does not currently report or edit stories about Apple products or Apple as a company.
I’m not saying you should go crowdfund a Bionic Bird X-Fly, as you’ll hear in my hands-on video below. I’m just saying that biomimetic ornithopters are surprisingly fun — and way less disruptive than your typical whiny quad-propeller drone!
They published gems like Slay the Spire, Signalis and Void Bastards, just released Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus, and were set to publish Monaco II — here’s a full list of games.
But now Humble Games, an offshoot of the Humble Bundle, is apparently just the latest casualty of crippling video game industry layoffs.
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Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified
The new TUAW is ripping off its former writers.
IDC and Canalys disagree whether this is the second or third consecutive quarter of growth, but either way, the slump is definitively behind us — and we haven’t even seen the impact of this year’s Qualcomm, AMD and Intel chip launches yet.
Shapeways, a 3D-printing services pioneer we profiled a decade ago, has now filed for bankruptcy.
Prusa, based in Prague, will now make some printers in the USA. “Our goal is to become the largest manufacturer of 3D printers and filaments in the USA within a year.” It anticipates 15–20 percent of assembled MK4 printers will be made here by 2025.
Nano Dimension is acquiring Desktop Metal.