This might be the new best smart speaker

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 134, your guide to the best and Verge -iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you’re okay in all this heat, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage .) This week, I’ve been reading about Polymarket lies and Jalen Brunson and the Arts and Crafts Movement , watching Not Suitable for Work and way too much of the World Cup, trying to catch up on The Bear before the final season starts, playing a bunch of Hank Green’s 4x3 game , trying my absolute hardest not to preorder this amazing Stanley Kubrick collection even though I’m obviously going to, buying a bunch of new AirTags and charging cables during Prime Day, poring over oral histories of data centers and Steven Spielberg , and thinking rude thoughts about whoever decided to kill Notion Mail . I also have for you a smart speaker worth a look, a great new remake of a great old game, a couple of excellent video essays, and a Netflix hit to binge on your vacation. Oh, and two more things. One, we’re off next week for the holiday weekend. And two, I have a question: What’s your reading setup? I mean reading in the broadest sense: books, long articles, newsletters, weird zines your kids make, anything and everything. I want to know the apps you swear by, the decade-old Kindle you won’t let go of, your go-to used bookstore, your favorite brand of highlighter, anything and everything. I have some thoughts on the subject, too. We’ll talk. …