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March 15, 2024Are we really about to ban TikTok?
The Verge 's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the US House of Representatives passing a bill that could ban TikTok, the streaming news of the week, a Dyson robot, and more.
Further reading:
Lawmakers introduce bill that would punish app stores for hosting TikTok
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform
House passes bill that could ban TikTok
TikTok’s fate now lies with the Senate after House advances path to a ban
There might be a “TikTok Photos” app in the works to take on Instagram.
TikTok CEO tells users to “make their voices heard” against a bill that could ban the app in the US.
Nancy Pelosi is playing TikTok-toe.
Donald Trump has even more to say about the TikTok ban.
President Biden says he’ll sign a TikTok ban, if passed.
TikTok is urging users to call Congress about a looming ban
The TikTokers are revolting.
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is apparently eyeing TikTok.
YouTube is revamping its TV app to make videos feel way more interactive
Spotify now has music videos
Neil Young’s music is back on “low res Spotify” two years after Rogan protest
Neil Young says the MacBook Pro has ‘Fisher-Price’ audio quality
Elon Musk cancels Don Lemon’s show on X after a ‘tense’ interview
Linda Yaccarino on X: "X is becoming a video first platform”
Roku hackers breach 15,000 accounts and are selling them online
British monarchy rocked by bad Photoshop job
The Kate Middleton photo scandal is a rare — and consequential — flub
SpaceX successfully launches Starship in third flight test
Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU
Hands-on with the Dyson 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum
Nikon is acquiring US camera manufacturer RED

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1 hr 40 min
March 12, 2024 The 2024 Streaming Draft (live from SXSW)
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz choose their picks for The Vergecast Streaming Draft of 2024 in front of a live audience at SXSW.
Watch video version with a scoreboard on YouTube
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59 min
March 07, 2024Hello and goodbye to the MacBook Air
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest “gatekeepers”, and a bunch of tech news from this week.

Further reading:
Apple announces upgraded MacBook Air laptops with M3 chips
The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already
Apple may not do a spring event this year
How the EU’s DMA is changing Big Tech: all of the news and updates
How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA
iOS 17.4 is here and ready for a whole new Europe
Apple hit with a nearly $2 billion fine following Spotify complaint
Spotify and Epic criticize Apple’s iOS changes as ‘a mockery of the DMA’
Spotify will show pricing options outside its iOS app in the EU — if Apple lets it
Apple kills Epic’s iOS game store plans over App Store criticism
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
Apple unbanned Epic so it can make an iOS games store in the EU
Alternative iOS app stores won’t work (for long) outside of the EU.
Here’s the new iOS default browser nag for iPhone users in Europe.
Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU
Apple’s decision to drop iPhone web apps comes under scrutiny in the EU
Now Apple says it won’t disable iPhone web apps in the EU

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1 hr 38 min
March 05, 2024AI gadgets, bendy phones, and more from MWC
Today on the flagship podcast of region locked phones:
The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Jon Porter report back on all the tech we saw at Mobile World Congress this past week.
MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona
Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
What if phones actually bent to our needs?
The Phone 2A makes a guest appearance at Nothing’s MWC event.
The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t
Samsung has big ambitions for the Galaxy Ring
A short gif of Infinix’s color-changing charging E Ink phone concept.
Now there’s a 28,000mAh battery with a phone in it
Xiaomi’s new Watch S3 has a bezel you can swap as easily as a strap.
Honor’s Magic 6 Pro launches internationally with AI-powered eye tracking on the way
HMD is making a Barbie flip phone alongside a smartphone for tinkerers
Later, David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about web crawlers and AI.
With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial

The Vergecast and Decoder are live at SXSW this weekend, March 8th and 9th. SXSW attendees can see both shows live on the official Vox Media Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, presented by Atlassian. Learn more at voxmedia.com/live.

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47 min
March 03, 2024How smart is the smart kitchen, really?
The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has as smart a kitchen as any reasonable person possibly could; she has smart appliances, a smart sink, a smart fridge, and more voice assistants than anyone could ever talk to. And for a few days, she tried to let her kitchen do the work: telling her what to cook, getting everything set up just right, and even taking some of the cooking and cleaning load off her shoulders. Jen kept a diary during her adventures, and then joined The Vergecast to tell the tale. The fun, frustrating, exciting, harrowing tale.
Links:
The Thermomix
The Samsung Food app
The Fresco app
The GE Profile Smart Smoker
The Smart Instapot Pro
The Traeger Smart Wood Pellet Grill
The Typhur Smart Air Fryer
Tovala Smart Countertop Oven
My favorite smart oven is toast

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49 min
March 01, 2024The Apple Car crash
The Verge's Nilay Patel and David Pierce talk through the weird and winding history of Apple's "secret" car project now that it's officially dead. And later, senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner makes her Vergecast debut to catch us up on the arguments made this week in the Supreme Court about online speech and the First Amendment.

Further reading:
Apple’s electric car project is dead
RIP to the Apple Car, we hardly knew ye
Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns
Supreme Court hears arguments on the future of online speech: all the news
The Supreme Court is about to decide the future of online speech
Why Uber and Etsy came up so much in the Supreme Court’s social media arguments
Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are 'completely unacceptable'
TikTok is removing even more songs as music rights battle drags on
The Humane AI Pin worked better than I expected — until it didn’t
Ford offers EV owners free Tesla Supercharger adapters until July
Attention English majors: now you can add handwritten notes to Google Docs

The Vergecast and Decoder are live at SXSW this weekend, March 8th and 9th. SXSW attendees can see both shows live on the official Vox Media Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, presented by Atlassian. Learn more at voxmedia.com/live.

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1 hr 32 min
February 27, 2024Tales of a shopping influencer
Today on the flagship podcast of the economic theory of Dave and Busters:
02:50 - The Verge’s Mia Sato shares her experience on a new shopping app called Flip, which is filled with only videos that earn affiliate revenue.
Where everyone’s an influencer and everything’s for sale

35:34 - The Verge’s Vjeran Pavic and Becca Farsace chat with David Piece about the new Fuji X100VI, and why this line of cameras was a sensation on social media.
Fujifilm announces the X100VI, its follow-up to a TikTok sensation
The internet's NEW favorite camera? (Fuji X100VI)
Fujifilm X100T review

57:44 - Verge producer Will Poor answers a follow-up question about the right to repair legislation in this week’s Vergecast Hotline.

The Vergecast and Decoder are live at SXSW this weekend, March 8th and 9th. SXSW attendees can see both shows live on the official Vox Media Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, presented by Atlassian. Learn more at voxmedia.com/live.

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1 hr 6 min
February 25, 2024The smart kitchen is a great idea — and a strange reality
Over the next two Sundays on The Vergecast, The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison-Tuohy and David Pierce dig into the dream smart kitchen, the less-than-dreamy reality of the situation, and what it might take to make cooking, cleaning, meal-prepping, and eating more efficient and more fun.
On this episode, Jen takes us on a tour of her own smart(ish) kitchen, and explains why the kitchen often feels left behind in the overall smart home race. Then, Jen and David are joined by Ben Harris, the CEO of Fresco; and Nick Holzherr, the co-founder of Samsung Food. They tell us about the opportunities and challenges in reinventing the way we cook and eat, and explain why the AI revolution might usher in huge change.
Further reading:
This smart oven solved my work-from-home lunchtime conundrum
2023 in the smart home: Matter’s broken promises
How the smart home is finally getting out of your phone and into your home
Appliance makers are teaming up to reduce your electricity usage — and save you cash
This smart mixer did not make me a better baker
Can Samsung Food usher in a new era for the smart kitchen?

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58 min
February 23, 2024The AIs are officially out of control
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss ChatGPT and Gemini updates, Walmart acquiring Vizio, Apple's Sports app, and more.

Further reading:
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
Google’s open-source Gemma AI models draw from the research behind Gemini
ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight before OpenAI fixed it
One month with Microsoft’s AI vision of the future: Copilot Pro
Gemini, Gemma, Goose.
OpenAI can’t register ‘GPT’ as a trademark — yet
Artificial investment
Walmart to acquire Vizio in $2.3 billion deal
Echo Hub review: a simple, customizable smart home control panel
Samsung details a host of audio upgrades coming to its phones, tablets, and TVs
Apple says the iPhone 15’s battery got better — but won’t say how
Rice is not included in Apple’s official guidance for a wet phone
One of the last small-ish Android phones looks like it's going the way of the iPhone Mini
OnePlus is getting back into the smartwatch game
The Garmin Forerunner 165 could be a great budget running watch
Sony’s PlayStation Portal hacked to run emulated PSP games
Framework is selling a cheap modular laptop
Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds
Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks
IBM quantum computing updates: System Two and Heron
Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip manufacturing deal
Rivian says it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce as EV woes deepen
Ford slashes Mustang Mach-E prices again as EV price war enters its second year

The Vergecast and Decoder are live at SXSW this weekend, March 8th and 9th. SXSW attendees can see both shows live on the official Vox Media Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, presented by Atlassian. Learn more at voxmedia.com/live.

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1 hr 26 min
February 20, 2024The right to repair – and play games anywhere
Today on the flagship podcast of sneaky gaming strategies:
03:45 - Verge producer Will Poor reports on a right-to-repair bill in Oregon and what's next in the right-to-repair movement.
The right-to-repair movement is just getting started
Status of Right to Repair legislation state by state, via repair.org
iFixit explains parts pairing
Jessa Jones’ iPad Rehab
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair
The current draft of Oregon’s Right to Repair bill
33:13 - Tom Warren breaks down the news from Microsoft’s gaming chief about Xbox games coming to PS5 and next-gen hardware.
Microsoft’s gaming chief on Xbox games coming to PS5, next-gen hardware, and more

1:00:49 - David Pierce and Alex Cranz answer a question from The Vergecast Hotline about the crackdown on password sharing for streaming services.
Netflix might ruin password sharing for everyone
Disney Plus is finally cracking down on password sharing in the US
Hulu is cracking down on password sharing, just like Disney Plus and Netflix

The Vergecast and Decoder are live at SXSW this weekend, March 8th and 9th. SXSW attendees can see both shows live on the official Vox Media Podcast Stage at the JW Marriott, presented by Atlassian. Learn more at voxmedia.com/live.
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1 hr 11 min

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The Vergecast is the flagship daily podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s…