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The Vergecast The Verge
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The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Wednesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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How Planet Earth — and the Netflix homepage — get made
Today on the flagship podcast of multi-drone camera setups:
03:19 - The Verge's David Pierce chats with Planet Earth III producer Alex Walters and director Theo Webb about the gear used to make the latest nature documentary series.
30:13 - Netflix's Pat Flemming joins the show to discuss how Netflix figures out what to show when you open the app, and how to keep you coming back.
1:20:29 -The Verge's publisher Helen Havlak and editor-in-chief Nilay Patel join the show to answer this week's hotline question.
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Emergency podcast: chaos at OpenAI
The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress.
Further reading:
Turmoil at OpenAI: after firing Sam Altman, what's next for the creators of ChatGPT?
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
OpenAI’s new CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Emmett Shear named new CEO of OpenAI by board
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
How ChatGPT Fractured OpenAI - The Atlantic
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Fortnite, GTA VI, and the fate of AAA games
In episode three of our video game miniseries, The Verge's David Pierce and Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante discuss the state of the industry's blockbuster games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Fortnite, and others — and what they signal for the future of gaming.
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Apple’s in on RCS — and everybody’s out on Bing
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple announcing it will support RCS next year, AI news that came out of Microsoft Ignite, YouTube's new policy on deepfakes, and much more.
Further reading:
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage
Meta will fight the EU over regulating Messenger
Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT
Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
Microsoft Copilot Studio lets anyone build custom AI copilots
Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI
YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians
Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
Nothing is bringing iMessage to its Android phone
On 'Chinese knockoffs' and why Leica works with Xiaomi
Taylor Swift fans used record amounts of data during the Eras Tour in North America
PlayStation Portal impressions: hands-on with Sony’s remote play handheld for PS5
Opal's second camera is the Tadpole, a tiny webcam for laptops
The first OLED Roku TV is here after a long, long wait
Sonos teases a major new product coming next year
Sonos fixes its Dolby Atmos loud pop issue after years of complaints
Taylor Swift fans used record amounts of data during the Eras Tour in North America
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Spotify and Disney have everything-app dreams
Today on the flagship podcast of machine learning-based recommendation systems:
03:31 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Spotify’s co-president and chief product officer Gustav Söderström about recommendations, audiobooks, app design, what Spotify wants to be, and whether it’s possible to do it all well.
Spotify - The Verge
44:08 - Alex Cranz joins the show to discuss a bunch of recent streaming news, including the plan to combine Disney Plus and Hulu.
Streaming - The Verge
1:10:28 - Chris Welch joins the show to help answer this week’s Vergecast Hotline question about mp3 players.
The Mighty — an iPod shuffle for Spotify — finally arrives for $85
bemighty.com
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The fight to save old games
In episode two of our gaming mini series, The Verge's David Pierce chats with Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante about the obstacles around both preserving and emulating video games from discontinued hardware.
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Customer Reviews
My favourite podcast
I love this podcast. Discovered it during lockdowns and listened to pretty much every episode since. A really great team of knowledgeable and fun tech folk. This show makes me laugh a lot and keep track of USBC standards (we all need this right?) as well as keeping me informed of all that’s going on in tech. Love it.
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I can’t take their crying anymore.
As a podcast it was great, just a weekly episode with quick takes on what occurred that week and they would even publish videos about and I could look past the (constant) fake laughter when Nilay is present. Fast forward to today, it’s turned into bitter chuckles about the devaluation of their twitter presence since they lost their artificial verified badge and mow choose to sit around, lost, unmotivated, and a shadow of their former selves as they try to find something in the tech/media world that gives them some celebrity validation. The truth, it was never there, just focus on the career paths you’re on and bring value by doing the best work you possibly can. What your younger selves aspired to. Blue Sky isn’t going to give you status, stop that lol. Please, get back to work.