Reviews Editor
Barbara Krasnoff is currently Reviews Editor for The Verge, and has been working as an editor and writer at tech publications for longer than she cares to admit.
She came to The Verge from a stint as a freelancer; before that, she was Senior Reviews Editor for Computerworld. When she is not writing and editing how-tos, or asking staff members what's on their desks, she writes (and occasionally publishes) science fiction and fantasy short stories.
If you use Uber with an iPhone, you can turn off unwanted marketing notifications — but the feature is a leetle hard to find. Okay, it’s a lot hard to find. John Gruber found it, though: go to Account > Settings > Privacy > Offers and Promos from Uber and tap the word here. You can then unsubscribe from some or all Uber marketing emails or notifications.
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Google Maps is a handy way to view a specific address — but if you’d rather keep your house private, you can request it to be blurred out. CNET explains how: in Street View, click on the tiny “Report a problem” link in the lower right, and follow directions. But make sure this is what you want — apparently, there’s no unblurring.