The Vergecast
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Hosted by Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn, alongside a cavalcade of tech luminaries, Vergecast is the podcast you need to make sense of the week in tech news. The weekly show gives an irreverent & informative look at what's happening right now in the world of technology and gadgets.
The Vergecast
2d ago
Today on the flagship podcast of enterprise certificate hacks:
03:22 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Riley Testut, founder of AltStore and developer of the game emulator app Delta, about how his app finally made it into Apple’s App Store.
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
Delta is the game emulator your iPhone has been missing
46:17 - David walks us through his experimentation with the many software and hardware solutions for “AI voice notes.”
Cleft Notes is an A ..read more
The Vergecast
6d ago
We’re kicking off our “Five Senses of Gaming” miniseries today, starting with “touch.” The Verge’s William Poor explores a controller crisis in the Nintendo 64 speedrunning community, and follows one speedrunner’s quest to recreate a mythical controller he lost.
Further reading/viewing:
How Sticks Are Sabotaging Speedrunners (Stick Crisis History)
abney317 on Twitch
The Quest to Beat abney317
Mariokart64.com
More on Beck Abney’s controller problems
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The Vergecast
1w ago
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss this week's tech and gadget news.
Further reading:
Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget
The Rabbit R1’s first software update addresses its dismal battery life - The Verge
Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along
TikTok and Universal Music Group end feud with new agreement
Microsoft’s OpenAI investment was triggered by Google fears, emails reveal
Peloton announces new round of layoffs as CEO quits
Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs
Tesla l ..read more
The Vergecast
1w ago
Today on the flagship podcast of dedicated AI hardware:
The Verge’s David Pierce and Allison Johnson debate whether the emergence of standalone AI gadgets like the Humane Pin and the Rabbit R1 are better off as apps or should exist as its own hardware.
Humane AI Pin review: not even close
The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t
A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget
Can Rabbit’s R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let’s find out!
The future of AI gadgets is just phones
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses actually make ..read more
The Vergecast
2w ago
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss President Biden signing the TikTok ban bill, Apple's May 7th iPad event, Tesla's flop era, and more.
Further reading:
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk
Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it
Rabbit R1 hands-on: early tests with the $199 AI gadget
Apple announces May 7th event for new iPads
What to expect at Apple’s May ‘Let Loose’ event
The Mercedes G-Wagen, the ultimate off-road status symbol, goes electric
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses h ..read more
The Vergecast
2w ago
Today on the flagship podcast of forced app divestiture:
03:07 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Lauren Fiener discuss the latest tech policy bills floating through Congress, including a privacy bill, a generative AI bill, and the TikTok divest-or-ban bill.
TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again
TikTok divest-or-ban legislation could suddenly be fast-tracked in the Senate
Lawmakers unveil new bipartisan digital privacy bill after years of impasse
A real privacy law? House lawmakers are optimistic this time
New bill would create public datasets to train AI and incentivize ..read more
The Vergecast
3w ago
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss third-party iPhone app stores, game emulators, Google Android and hardware team restructuring, the latest TikTok news, and more.
Further reading:
Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store
The first Apple-approved emulator for the iPhone has arrived... and been pulled
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
Google is combining its Android and hardware teams — and it’s a ..read more
The Vergecast
3w ago
Today on the flagship podcast of undersea cable management:
04:10 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Josh Dzieza discuss the industry of laying and maintaining undersea cables that connect us to the internet.
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
43:43 - Tom Warren and Joanna Nelius join the show to discuss the future of Arm chips on PCs and whether or not we’re about to get a huge jump in performance on most laptops.
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
Microsoft to hold a special Windows and Surface AI event in May
Micros ..read more
The Vergecast
1M ago
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Piece, and Alex Cranz discuss David's review of the Humane AI Pin, Taylor Swift's music back on TikTok, a new party speaker, and much more.
Further reading:
Humane AI Pin review: the post-smartphone future isn’t here yet
Here’s What Reviewers Are Saying About the Humane Pin
We now have a better look at what’s inside the Humane AI pin
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4
Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok
Apple will open the iPhone to repair with used parts
Kobo announces its first color e-readers
Sony’s new headphone ..read more
The Vergecast
1M ago
The Verge’s David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz answer questions from The Vergecast Hotline all about the TikTok ban debate and the US v Apple case.
Further reading:
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform
US v. Apple: everything you need to know
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
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