Victoria Song

@vicmsong.bsky.social

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Senior reviewer and author of the Optimizer newsletter for The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, the wellness wild west, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun. Signal: @vicmsong.14 Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.

a murderous cat with a glint in his eye reaching for the head of a pink Mirumi robot.
The kangaroo yoga instructor from the Aggretsuko anime with illuminated eyes saying “Protein”
The handshake meme where one arm says "wellness" and the other arm says "AI bros" and the part where their hands meet says "Grifting"
ChatGPT Altas agent mode saying “Attempting to close the popup again. The popup is still there and clicking the X hasn’t worked yet, I think I might need to click slightly more precisely at coordinates 659,247. Let’s give that a try and see if it closes this time, so I can move forward with the task.”
Notification on a smartwatch from X showing a post from Elon Musk reading “There you have it.”
Screenshot reading: I asked Samsung whether the sensor detects carotenoids based solely on pigments, or if there's some other factor at play. Jeffrey Kim, senior product manager at Samsung Electronics America, tells The Verge that the watch's sensor measures "absorption levels in the blue-green spectrum, which complements the yellow-orange range to estimate the amount of skin carotenoids" to determine your antioxidant level. Makeup or dies applied to the skin, Kim says, can disrupt signal measurement and recommended I wash and dry my hands before readings.
Oura Ring screenshot showing that my body has experienced more stress than usual today, 10hr 45 min compared to the usual 2.5 hours
Wgae strike sign saying “I’m in the verge of a strike” where The Verge is written in the style of the logo, in the corners is a Verge score of 2 for Vox Media and management’s proposals
The Bernie Sanders meme that says "I am once again reminding big tech there are 51 other weeks in the year to tease your fancy new ai hardware news jesus christ are you trying to kill a bitch i just got home from google i/o"