The best Stratechery content from the week of March 10, 2025, including why Ben is skeptical of Alexa+, a eulogy for Skype, and Trump’s planned China tariffs.

Branding has always been a tough race and logo design has always played an important role in it, as the logo of a brand is its first impression. In fact, a well-designed logo is not only an attractive ...

As college sports teams go, the Texas Longhorns are up there with the most iconic – and that includes their legendary logo.

The Longhorns have no intention of losing the classic logo we all know and love, but one social media influencer has a ...

Max, formerly known as HBO Max, officially has a new logo on Sunday night, March 30. The new logo for Warner Bros. Discovery's steaming platform was unveiled on Sunday evening. The new logo gives ...

From what we've learned, this change is in preparation for Amazon's launch of its huge AI upgrade to Alexa called Alexa Plus. Based on what Amazon has said, no Echo owner will have a choice with ...

NVIDIA provided hardware for Echo devices prior to 2021. Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers, in a push to introduce artificial intelligence-powered “agentic ...

Amazon Echo users are set to lose the option to store and process their Alexa requests locally, meaning all of their voice recordings will be sent to Amazon’s cloud. After March 28, Amazon will ...

There are over 100 million Alexa devices in use right now, bringing information and entertainment to people across the world. The Alexa phenomenon has spawned jokes, memes and even a range of ...

The company's cloud-based voice service Alexa currently offers an opt-in feature called "Do Not Send Voice Recordings." It stops audio requests from being sent to the company. Starting March 28 ...

With companies like Dell and Lenovo also experimenting with modular concepts, the success of Framework may be influencing the broader laptop industry. However, whether the Adapt X will make it ...