Did Pope Drip fool you, too? What does it mean that it worked so well? What will the aliens think when they find the Balenciaga bishop among the remains of our civilization? There’s a lot to talk about this week.
Also, we get into whether Apple’s going to launch an AR headset at WWDC — and whether it should.
We spent the whole hour answering your questions: about tablets and laptops, routers and modems, privacy and gadget reviews. Also doorbells.
We love your questions, please keep ‘em coming! 866-VERGE11, or you can always email vergecast@theverge.com. Without you, we’ll just end up talking about the moon again.
Folding Ideas, the folks behind the classic “Line Goes Up” video about NFTs (and generally just a very good YouTube channel), just put up a long and spicy take on the metaverse in general, Decentraland in particular, and especially the people who spend their time and energy promoting them both. It’s a long watch, but it’s a good one. It’ll make you feel things.
Elon Musk’s team is investigating to find out who was behind the FreeSpeechEnthusiast account, the New York Times reported, which was apparently publicly available for some time.
There are plenty of reasons companies don’t want this to happen, starting with security risks, but this is also just another bad look for the Musk-led Twitter. Musk did say he planned to open-source Twitter’s algorithm, but I don’t think this is what he meant.
[The New York Times]
And we bring you the best parts, including Grapefruit Theories and WiFi Problems and The One About The Eyes. We also talk about Bard and ChatGPT… but mostly The One About The Eyes. It’s the Vergecast! This is what hearings do to us.
We have... a lot to say about yesterday’s big TikTok hearing, and everything we learned about the app’s future. And grapefruits. And your home Wi-Fi network. And eyes. Plus, we talk Bard and GPT-4 and whether text boxes are the future of the internet.
