Spotify secretly launched a show with this controversial duo — it’s already a hit
Jackie and Claudia Oshry have delivered their sizable audience to Spotify with "Breaking Bread" on Spotify Live. The show received no...
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Vergecast: M2 Macbook Pro review, Solana’s crypto phone, and this week’s tech news
Nilay Patel and Alex Cranz chat with Monica Chin about her review of Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro. Alex, David Pierce, and Dan Seifert discuss...
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Welcome to our new Wednesday edition of The Vergecast
David Pierce talks with Adi Robertson about the Meta VR prototypes she previewed. Chris Welch tests a bunch of wireless earbuds to find out which has...
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How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future
Mercedes has big plans to go all-electric by 2030, including an electric G-Wagon, and become a luxury tech company now that cars are just big...
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Vergecast: Dish’s 5G network, Apple’s Major League Soccer deal, and Google’s AI debate
The Verge’s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Dish Network’s 5G network, Google’s LaMDA AI, Apple streaming Major League...
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How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
Her new book on the long history of fans from the Beatles and Grateful Dead to One Direction, Justin Bieber, and K-Pop Every now and again, I’m...
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How do you solve a problem like content moderation?
The advisory group will help the company devise policies to prevent and remove dangerous content as more creators flock to the platform. I hope...
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Spotify plans to launch audiobooks platform soon
Spotify plans to launch audiobooks platform soon Music streaming giant, Spotify, is working on a new platforms focused on audiobooks. The...
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Vergecast WWDC: iOS 16, new M2 processor, macOS Ventura, and more
Nilay, David, and Alex discuss the new features added in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, the expansion of CarPlay, the new flagship M2 processor, a...
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Spotify comes for audiobooks
With the acquisition of Findaway, Spotify plans to make audiobooks the third pillar of its business. CEO Daniel Ek says it could be a $70 billion...
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Why every new TV show has a podcast
Studios like HBO, Apple, and Netflix are making podcasts that listeners love to consume. They don’t make a dime in ad revenue, but they help drive...
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What unions could mean for Apple with Zoe Schiffer
Employees at Apple, Amazon, Starbucks, and Alphabet are fighting to unionize. We break down what this trend might mean. This week’s Decoder episode...
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Vergecast: Meta’s executive shakeup, vaporware cars, and a WWDC preview
Our podcast covers Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as COO of Meta, the real and unreal car news from this week, and a preview of what’s to come at...
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Focusrite debuts its audio interfaces designed for podcasters
The Vocaster One and Two take the key parts of Focusrite’s popular interfaces and tailor them to amateur podcasters. Focusrite, the British...
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Massive podcast outage caused by Spotify’s failure to renew security certificate
Many top shows were unavailable for eight hours late Monday and early Tuesday because Spotify failed to renew Megaphone’s security certificate....
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Conan O’Brien makes a $150 million podcast deal
SiriusXM has acquired Team Coco for a reported $150 million. Meanwhile, Acast locks down ad sales for WTF with Marc Maron, and Spotify starts selling...
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How Ukraine’s wide use of cryptocurrency is playing out during the war
Michael Chobanian, the president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine, discusses how cryptocurrency and blockchain could reshape the Ukrainian...
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Vergecast: the wild laptops from Computex 2022
An OLED laptop under $1,000, this week in Elon, a 3D gaming laptop, and a whole lot more on this week’s episode of The Vergecast with Nilay Patel,...
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Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller was a success for the modding community
In the third episode of this special creators miniseries for the Vergecast, we spoke with Ben Heck and Bryce Johnson about accessible video game...
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Apple helps you download fewer podcasts
Thanks to a new software update for iPhones, iPads, and Macs, Apple Podcast listeners can now control how many episodes are downloaded in the app for...
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The videos that don’t work on YouTube and the future of the creator business with Nebula CEO Dave Wiskus
The economics of running a creator-owned streaming service that’s an alternative to the YouTube algorithm, negotiating brand deals, and partnering...
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Apple is making it easier to distribute subscription podcasts
Creators on podcast distribution platforms like Acast and Libsyn will soon be able to automatically upload their premium shows onto the Apple...
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The iPod is dead, but the podcast lives on
Apple may have at long last discontinued the iPod, but the "pod" lives on. The iPod played a crucial role in the development of digital...
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Vergecast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Google I/O 2022
Sundar Pichai joins The Vergecast to chat about Google I/O announcements. Also: the crypto crash, USB-C on the iPhone in 2023, and Apple discontinues...
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Google TV’s ambient mode screen saver with sports scores and podcast links is rolling out
A new feature has started to roll out more widely for Google TV users, adding glanceable information to the ambient mode screen saver, like the...
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Ploopy and the promise of an open-source trackball
The Vergecast is doing a special miniseries this May focused on creators creating really cool hardware and building communities around it. This week...
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Podcasting will be a $4 billion industry by 2024
It’s the boom times for audio. A new IAB report projects that the industry will generate $2 billion in revenue this year and $4 billion by 2024....
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UiPath CEO Daniel Dines thinks automation can fight the great resignation
Huge companies like Uber, Facebook, and Spotify already use UiPath software — which programs robots to do tasks that human employees find boring....
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