Samsung fans and video apps: they’re everywhere

The Verge‘s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss YouTube adding a slew of new TikTok-like features to Shorts, Elon Musk’s extravagant ‘X’ sign, and much more.

We also go through this week’s emails. The Samsung fans have spoken.

Further reading:

Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X
Elon Musk capitulates: Twitter will default to dark mode but still offer a light option
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks

Elon Musk’s extravagant ‘X’ sign atop the former Twitter HQ has been dismantled 
Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from Twitter
Do you want to buy stocks on X?
YouTube is adding a slew of new TikTok-like features to Shorts
BBC launches an ‘experimental’ Mastodon server
LG 27GR95QE-B review: ushering in a new age for gaming monitors

Some details on what Apple needs to ship the Apple Vision Pro developer kits. 
Apple’s Vision Pro platform joins Pixar’s bid to standardize 3D content
The Excel World Championship esport is coming back to ESPN this week
Exclusive: the Sonos Move 2 is coming in September with stereo sound and 24-hour battery life
MrBeast is suing his ghost kitchen partner over ‘inedible’ MrBeast Burgers

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