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Terrence O'Brien

Terrence O'Brien

Weekend Editor

Weekend Editor

Terrence O’Brien is a journalist, editor, and producer from New York City with over 18 years of experience and is The Verge’s weekend editor. In addition to spending 10 years as managing editor at Engadget, his work has appeared on Wired, MusicTech, Guitar.com, Refinery 29, and more. He has also composed music for podcasts and feature films. In his spare time, Terrence collects hobbies at an alarming rate.

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Spotify’s User Notes turn playlists into mixtapes.

You’ll find the feature in the three-dot menu next to tracks on your playlists. Now you can remind yourself of how you discovered a song, or leave a message to someone you’re sharing the playlist with. Playlists have always felt impersonal compared to a mixtape or mix CD. This closes the gap slightly.

Series of screenshots showing where to find the new User Notes feature in Spotify.
Image: Spotify
Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

Illustrators, authors, and musicians are optimistic about their chances in court, if not about the future of AI.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Lanterns seems like a leftover from the old DCU.

The Damon Lindelof-headed (Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen) series is clearly grounded in crime and noir and eschews the brighter, quippier vibe of modern DCU properties under the leadership of Tim Peter Safran and James Gunn.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Why yes, your modular synth can run Doom.

There are very few unexplored frontiers for the iconic first-person shooter. Microsoft Word, an Ikea smart lightbulb, even tractors are fair game. But this is the first time I’ve seen Doom running on a modular synthesizer. Don’t be fooled by the laptop, it’s just streaming video from the synth.