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For sweaty palms and white knuckles, watch Free Solo in theaters and Meru on Netflix
There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming multitude of movies and TV shows on subscription services, and recommending a single perfect thing to watch this weekend.
What to watch
Meru, a 2015 documentary co-directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and her husband Jimmy Chin, about the two attempts Chin and his colleagues Conrad Anker and Renan Ozturk made at scaling the daunting “Shark’s Fin” wall at India’s Meru Peak. In 2008 and then again in 2011, the trio worked together to overcome bitter cold, strong winds,…
Life is Strange 2 puts politics at its forefront
After a summer of teasing, Dontnod’s sequel to its award-winning episodic adventure series Life is Strange is here, and it has a loud and clear message to deliver.
The first Life is Strange tackled issues like cyberbullying, suicide, and assault through the eyes of its teenage protagonist Max and her friendships. Life is Strange 2 is far more ambitious. While set up to be a story about a family through the eyes of two Hispanic brothers, the game quickly wades into more political, timely topics. The first episode is set quite obviously in October 2016, just weeks before the election of Donald Trump. Characters yell about “building walls” and fret about what will happen if Trump wins. One of the game’s less subtle moments includes a…
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There’s no safe harbor here.
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Google Maps in CarPlay isn’t the dream you’ve been waiting for
Apple’s iOS 12 update didn’t bring many changes to the in-car CarPlay system that’s been around for a few years. But there is one notable improvement: it now supports third-party navigation apps. Yes, that’s right. That means you can now use Google Maps, Waze, or some other navigation app in CarPlay instead of Apple’s default Maps app.
Both Google Maps and Waze have released updates to their iOS apps that added support for CarPlay already, and I’ve been testing them for the past week or so. Unfortunately, due to CarPlay’s inherent limitations and a number of bugs and performance issues, neither Google Maps or Waze are particularly compelling compared to their Android Auto counterparts or even Apple’s own Maps app.
Enabling Google Maps…
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A new report details dozens of vulnerabilities across seven models of voting machines—all of which are currently in use.