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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss Apple's Vision Pro team reportedly refocusing on a cheaper headset, Meta launching a new "Wearables" organization, a new AI company startup from former OpenAI chief scientist, and a whole lot more tech news.
Further reading:

Apple’s new hands-free unlocking feature won’t work with existing smart locks

Apple’s fancy new CarPlay will only work wirelessly

Android’s AirTag competitors are off to a poor start.

This universal remote wants to control your smart home sans hub

The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

The Beats Solo Buds have a great look and an even better price

Xreal’s new Beam Pro is an Android tablet designed to work with your AR glasses

Apple’s Vision Pro team is reportedly focused on building a cheaper headset

Meta forms new Wearables group and lays off some employees

OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company

Perplexity continues to piss off publishers.

An AI video tool just launched, and it’s already copying Disney’s IP

Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots

AIs are coming for social networks

TikTok ads may soon contain AI avatars of your favorite creators

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now

Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company

US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel

Tech CEOs are hot now, so workers are hiring $500-an-hour fashion consultants


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Today on the flagship podcast of super helpful humanoid helper robots: 
05:07 - The Verge’s David Pierce and Andy Hawkins discuss the latest at Tesla: new products, new initiatives, and a payday for Elon Musk. 

Tesla’s 2024 shareholder meeting: all the news about Elon Musk’s $50 billion payday

Let’s speculate wildly about Tesla’s three mystery vehicles 

Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s massive pay package — was there ever any doubt?

Whatever Elon wants, Tesla gets


40:21 - Vee Song joins the show to discuss updates to the Apple Watch, a new Samsung Galaxy Watch, and more wearable news. 

Finally, the Apple Watch will let you rest - The Verge

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch FE is its new entry-level smartwatch - The Verge

The Pixel Watch 2 can now detect when you’ve been in a car crash

Apple announces watchOS 11 with new training features and Live Activities

Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims


1:02:54 - David and Liam James answer a question from the Vergecast Hotline about weather apps. 
Forecast Advisor

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss takeaways from WWDC, this week's gadget news, and Elon Musk dropping his lawsuit against OpenAI.
Further reading:

Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg

MKBHD interviewed Tim Cook.

Tim Cook is ‘not 100 percent’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations

Can Apple Intelligence fix the iPhone’s broken notifications system?

The AI upgrade cycle is here

Here’s how Apple’s AI model tries to keep your data private

The best small updates Apple didn’t mention at WWDC

Apple IDs are becoming Apple Accounts

Apple skipped over the best visionOS 2 updates

iOS 18 will let you record calls — and tells everyone for their privacy

SharePlay is coming to Apple TV, HomePods, and Bluetooth speakers 

Finally, offline maps with turn-by-turn guidance.

The new versions of iOS and macOS will let you rotate your Wi-Fi address to help reduce tracking.

Xbox boss: ‘I think we should have a handheld, too’

Microsoft announces a discless Xbox Series X console in white

Xbox chief confirms more games are coming to other platforms

Jabra’s earbuds are going away, but the impact they made isn’t

The best thing about Jabra’s new earbuds is the case 

The Light Phone 3 adds a better screen, a camera, and new ways to replace your smartphone

The Windows on Arm chip race heats up with a challenger to Qualcomm

Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster? Here’s the white paper and FAQs

Google is putting more Android in ChromeOS

Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI

Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports

Sony buys Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

Pew: A growing number of Americans are getting their news from TikTok


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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Allison Johnson, and David Pierce discuss all the announcements from Apple's WWDC event.
Further reading:

Apple WWDC 2024: the 13 biggest announcements 

 Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac


 Apple is giving Siri an AI upgrade in iOS 18 


Apple announces iOS 18 with new AI features and more customizable homescreen


Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024  

Apple’s AI can make custom emoji and images

iOS 18 introduces satellite capabilities to its iMessage app

Apple announces iPadOS 18 with a built-in calculator and customizable homescreen 

Apple made an iPad calculator app after 14 years

The iPhone’s new Game Mode makes it faster and more responsive 

Apple announces watchOS 11 with new training features and Live Activitie


Apple announces macOS Sequoia at WWDC 2024 


Apple’s standalone Passwords app syncs across iOS, iPad, Mac, and Windows 


Apple’s AirPods are being upgraded with powerful accessibility features  

Apple’s InSight feature for Apple TV Plus will tell you who that actor is

Apple teases new seasons of Severance and Silo

Apple announces visionOS 2 with 3D photo transformations and an ultrawide Mac display

Apple is finally launching the Vision Pro outside the US


Canon made a special lens for the Apple Vision Pro’s spatial videos 


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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss what they expect to see next week at Apple's WWDC, or "dub dub" as it's more affectionately known. But first, we take you through all the gadgets previewed at Computex.
Further reading:

This is Lunar Lake — Intel’s utterly overhauled AI laptop chip that ditches memory sticks

Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself to HP for $1 billion


Humane, the startup behind the AI Pin, in talks with HP, telecoms to sell 

Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case

Even the Raspberry Pi is getting in on AI 

Apple put a Thread smart home radio into its newest Macs and iPads

Apple just corrected the M2 iPad Air’s core count 

Samsung leak reveals a cheaper Galaxy Watch

Meta is fixing three of the biggest Quest 3 annoyances with v66 update 


Nothing’s Phone 3 will be all about AI apps 


The Asus ROG Ally X is official — and I took a peek inside

Palmer Luckey is now selling pixel-perfect ultrabright magnesium Game Boys for $199

iOS 18 (and AI) will give Siri much more control over your apps

Apple’s non-AI WWDC plans include Settings and Control Center revamps

Apple might bring AI transcription to Voice Memos and Notes

Apple’s WWDC may include AI-generated emoji and an OpenAI partnership

Apple’s WWDC 2024 is set for June 10th

Think inside the box

Max raises prices across its ad-free plans

We tested Aptoide, the first free iPhone app store alternative

Google acquires Cameyo to integrate Windows app virtualization into ChromeOS


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Today on the flagship podcast of audio over Wi-Fi: 
03:02 - The Verge’s Chris Welch shares his review of Sonos's Ace headphones.

Sonos Ace review: was it worth it?

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign


28:58 - MoviePass, MovieCrash director Muta’Ali and MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes discuss what went wrong with the MoviePass subscription service and how that story was documented in the film.

MoviePass, MovieCrash review: a damning account of corporate greed


MoviePass is using you to ruin the movies 


56:47 - Jennifer Pattison Tuohy answers a question from The Vergecast Hotline about smart home gadgets for renters. 


Home Assistant: Setting up the Aqara FP2 Presence Sensor - Derek Seaman's Tech Blog 

Yale launches its first retrofit smart lock — the Yale Approach with Wi-Fi 

The new Yale Keypad Touch brings fingerprint unlocking to August smart locks


Aqara kick-starts its first Matter-over-Thread smart lock with a promise of Home Key support 

The new Yale Keypad Touch brings fingerprint unlocking to August smart locks


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