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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 Tuesday, 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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Apple’s AI moment is coming
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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Sonos' headphones are extremely Sonos
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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Inside the Google algorithm
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Google's algorithm leak, OpenAI content deals, and more tech news from this week.
Further reading:
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them
Secrets from the Algorithm: Google Search’s Internal Engineering Documentation Has Leaked
Unpacking Google's massive Search documentation leak
How SEO moves forward with the Google Content Warehouse API leak
Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context
Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
Apple’s WWDC may include AI-generated emoji and an OpenAI partnership
OpenAI CEO Cements Control as He Secures Apple Deal
Custom GPTs open for free ChatGPT users
OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman
Why the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest
New Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Galaxy Ring details have leaked, courtesy of the FCC
The Fitbit Ace LTE is like a Nintendo smartwatch for kids
Discord’s turning the focus back to games with a new redesign
The business behind Unnecessary Inventions’ millions of followers
Welcome to Notepad, a newsletter on Microsoft’s era-defining bets by Tom Warren
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Why Microsoft bet on Surface
Today on the flagship podcast of open smart home standards:
03:25 - Microsoft’s Pavan Davuluri, leader for Windows and Devices, joins the show to discuss the future of the AI PC and what’s next for Microsoft’s hardware
Microsoft’s new Windows chief on the future of the OS, Surface, and those annoying ads
Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer
Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
30:25 - The Verge’s Jen Tuohy and David Pierce discuss the latest updates in the smart home world in a segment called “Does Matter matter yet?”
The Dyson WashG1 is the company’s first dedicated mop
Amazon’s Matter Casting is shaping up so nicely, I want to use it everywhere
Matter 1.3 arrives with new device type and features
Smart lighting company Brilliant is looking for a buyer
Google launches new Home APIs and turns Google TVs into smart home hubs
01:13:20 - David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about AI-powered search engines.
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it's AI all the way down
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web
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Seeing the real world inside a virtual one
On this episode of The Vergecast, the fourth and final installment of our series on the five senses of video games, we asked Polygon’s Charlie Hall to help us make sense of the current state of the art in flight simulation. Hall, who once spent more than four months in VR mapping the edge of the Milky Way galaxy in Elite: Dangerous, has more experience in a virtual cockpit than most. We wanted to know how the pros set up their simulators to get the most realistic experience and why it’s so complicated to make a virtual world look like the real one.
Further reading:
It’s time to build the cockpit of your dreams
Microsoft Flight Simulator’s most-needed feature is co-op
My first kill as a Star Citizen
If Microsoft Flight Simulator has you craving air combat, try this flight sim next
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ChatGPT has a Scarlett Johansson problem
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss announcements from Microsoft Build, the OpenAI's trouble with Scarlett Johansson, new Sonos headphones, and more.
Further reading:
Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer
Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
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Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
How does the Microsoft Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air?
Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced
Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste
Microsoft is making File Explorer more powerful with version control and 7z compression
Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments
Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them
Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures
Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks
Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features
OpenAI is ‘in conversations’ with Scarlett Johansson over the ChatGPT voice that sounds just like her
OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT
Lawyers say OpenAI could be in real trouble with Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she’s not happy they might have anyway
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game
OpenAI’s News Corp deal licenses content from WSJ, New York Post, and more
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
The US government is trying to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster
The Sonos Ace headphones are here, and they’re damn impressive
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign
here’s an electric salt spoon that adds umami flavor
Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos
Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut
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