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March 22, 2023How to buy an iPad, hike 2,600 miles, and watch free TV
Today on the flagship podcast of over-the-air interactive television:
David Pierce is joined by Alex Cranz and Janko Roettgers to talk about ATSC 3.0, the new standard for over-the-air broadcasting.
The future of TV is up in the air

Mitchell Clark joins the show to discuss his next endeavor.
Mitchell's gear list

Dan Seifert explains which iPad you should buy and how to make the iPad work better for writing by hand.
The best iPad to buy in 2023
Yes, paper-feel screen protectors for the iPad are good
This Apple Pencil clone provides 80 percent of the experience for a quarter of the price

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1 hr 21 min
March 20, 2023 Solo Acts: Marco Arment and his podcast app Overcast
For the final episode of our Solo Acts mini series, Ashley Esqueda talks with Marco Arment about being a solo app developer, going from Tumblr to Instapaper to his own podcast app Overcast.

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34 min
March 17, 2023GPT-4 is coming for your work tools — and your job
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, David Pierce, and James Vincent discuss OpenAI announcing GPT-4, the next generation of its AI language model.
Further reading:
The night sky is always getting faked
Samsung responds to fake Moon controversy
Samsung’s fake Moon photos aren’t a giant leap for mobile photography
OpenAI announces GPT-4 — the next generation of its AI language model
The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4
OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’
What’s new with GPT-4 — from processing pictures to acing tests
Microsoft Business Chat is like the Bing AI bot but as a personal assistant
Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer
Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft
Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3
Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude, an AI chatbot that’s easier to talk to
How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
The BlackBerry trailer shows the rise and fall of the keyboard phone
Biden administration reportedly demanding that TikTok sell or face a ban
T-Mobile is buying Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile for up to $1.35 billion
Belkin’s smart home brand Wemo is backing away from Matter

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1 hr 33 min
March 15, 2023Samsung's fake moon photos and Silicon Valley Bank's collapse
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Samsung faking photos of the moon on its phones, what happened with Silicon Valley Bank, and hottest topic of the season: ChatGPT and AI.
This episode was recorded live at SXSW 2023.
Further reading:
Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
Silicon Valley Bank has failed
The tech industry moved fast and broke its most prestigious bank
Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet

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50 min
March 13, 2023 Solo Acts: Tinymakesthings' custom keycaps
On today's episode of our Solo Acts mini series, Ashley Esqueda talks with Tiny of tinymakesthings, who makes artisan keycaps for mechanical keyboards. Tiny explains how she got started making her projects on Twitch, the process for designing the keycaps, and the community she built with her art.

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36 min
March 10, 2023Spotify's redesign, streaming boxes suck, and Gigi Sohn withdraws from FCC nomination
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss Spotify's changes within its app, what happening this week at Twitter, Gigi Sohn withdrawing her nomination for FCC commissioner, and a whole lot more.
Further reading:
The Cybertruck wiper does not appear to extend
Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube
Spotify is going big on video podcasts
After layoffs, SiriusXM looks to star-studded podcasts
Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th
All the streaming boxes suck now
How a single engineer brought down Twitter
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire
The FTC’s Twitter privacy investigations have ramped up since Elon Musk’s takeover
Hey, where’s the Twitter Blue revenue sharing Elon Musk promised a month ago?
Tesla under investigation after Model Y steering wheels fall off
Congress rolls out new bill allowing nationwide TikTok ban
Gigi Sohn withdraws her nomination for President Joe Biden’s FCC
Now the Florida GOP wants political bloggers to register with the government
Dish CEO says data was stolen in cyberattack that’s kept systems down for days
Dish Network’s internal systems are so broken some employees haven’t worked in over a day
Microsoft Bing hits 100 million active users in bid to grab share from Googlet
Is buzzy startup Humane’s big idea a wearable camera?

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1 hr 41 min
March 07, 2023 Giles Martin and Sonos CEO Patrick Spence on the new Era 100 and Era 300 speakers
Today, Sonos announced a new line of speakers — the Era 100 and the Era 300 — with the latter finally taking on this format that has been a hit-or-miss experience for music lovers, supporting Amazon Music and Apple Music’s spatial audio. Though spatial format Dolby Atmos has been supported on the Sonos Arc soundbar, the Era 300 signals a music-first approach to its speakers supporting 3D soundscapes. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence believes this is the right time to do it. “We didn’t know that, in 2022, 85 of the top Billboard 100 artists would actually release Atmos tracks, but they did,” Spence says. “We feel like we’re at an inflection point.”
On board with Sonos for this shift in music listening is record producer Giles Martin, who mixed the first-ever spatial audio album (a remix of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles album that his father, George Martin, originally produced) and several albums and live experiences in Dolby Atmos since. Martin is also the senior vice president of sound experience at Sonos and was involved in the development of the speaker. “When you’re building a product which has multi sort of use and orientations, you do prioritize ... in a way of, what’s the wow factor?” Martin explains. “The wow factor, which I think is truly extraordinary out of the 300, is the fact that it does spatial out of a single box. And it’s really compelling.”
Both Patrick and Giles joined Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel for The Vergecast to talk about the new speakers, supporting spatial audio, and why this is the time to do it.

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1 hr 3 min
March 06, 2023 Solo Acts: Madison Karrh on her adventure puzzle game 'Birth'
On episode three of our Solo Acts miniseries, Ashley Esqueda chats with Madison Karrh, an indie game developer who launched her most recent game Birth a few weeks ago. Birth is an adventure puzzle game about constructing a creature from spare bones & organs found around the city in order to quell your loneliness. Madison explains the challenges of making an entire game on your own and why that path is so important to her.

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32 min
March 03, 2023MWC 2023 gadgets, Meta's AR / VR roadmap, and TikTok's Bold Glamour filter
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss the phones and laptops announced at Mobile World Congress, Meta's AR and VR hardware roadmap for the next few years, Tesla's "Master Plan", and more of this week's tech news.
Further reading:
MWC 2023 was a preview of what future phones could (and should) look like
HMD's latest Nokia phone is designed to be repaired in minutes
The Xiaomi 13 Pro is going global
Realme’s ridiculous 240W fast-charging phone is getting an international release
Motorola’s new Razr foldable is arriving this year
Lenovo’s rollable laptop and smartphone are a compelling, unfinished pitch for the future
This is Meta’s AR / VR hardware roadmap for the next four years
Elon Musk says Twitter employees will receive ‘very significant’ stock awards on March 24th
Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter
Elon Musk's 'lab leak' tweets could be an issue for Tesla's plans in China
Tesla’s new ‘Master Plan’ is coming — let’s grade the first two
Elon Musk unveils a new Master Plan, a path to sustainable energy future, no new cars
Why won’t TikTok confirm the Bold Glamour filter is AI?
OpenAI announces an API for ChatGPT and its Whisper speech-to-text tech
Microsoft now lets you change Bing’s chatbot personality to be more entertaining
Microsoft’s Phone Link app now lets you use iMessage from your PC
Sony announces 2023 TV lineup: better late than never

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1 hr 20 min
March 01, 2023Apple glucose monitor rumors, Marvel fatigue, and podcast misinformation
Today on the flagship podcast of hyper specific wearable sensors:
01:19 - Victoria Song joins Alex Cranz to talk about the latest rumors around Apple’s big progress in blood glucose monitoring.
Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch
Continuous glucose monitor startups still have to prove their worth
Apple is looking at opportunities to do great things in health in India: Sumbul Desai
17:14 - Ariel Shapiro talks with Valerie Wirtschafter, a data analyst at the Brookings Institution, about how often podcasts spread political misinformation, and what that means for the medium.
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Policy recommendations for addressing content moderation in podcasts
43:57 - Alex and Charles Pulliam-Moore chat about the latest episode of The Last of Us and all the Marvel movie fatigue that has cropped up since Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania came out. [Warning: Spoiler alert]
HBO’s The Last of Us is pushing all the right buttons by telling new stories
HBO’s The Last of Us is wisely skipping to the cutscenes
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review: this is your brain on Kangs

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1 hr 14 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…