Okay fine, the World Cup is cool too. But on ESPN this morning, a bunch of the world’s best Excel users played a pretty epic elimination battle to see who is the best keyboard shortcutter / puzzle solver / knower of sick Excel tricks. That might sound boring! It’s not. Excel Esports is a big and growing thing, and it’s a shockingly great spectator sport.
This episode is for all the samboys out there, y’all. We get into some reader emails (thanks as always for sending, and keep ‘em coming, [email protected] or call the hotline at 866-VERGE11), talk about YouTube’s world takeover plans, dissect BeastBurger, and get into the weeds on plow planes. And we barely talk about X at all, for once.
Be honest: would you let Worldcoin scan your irises in exchange for... something? Glory, I guess? Alex Heath would, so of course we had to talk about that. Plus we dig into how Samsung makes the folds and the flips work, and how it happened that the games on your phone ended up in arcades everywhere. Happy Vergecast!
A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. So how come you’ve never heard of Neeva?
Lots of gadgets this week! We talk headphones and laptops, chatbots and other chatbots, and get way in the weeds on both copyright law and Tree Law. Which are both very important.
And, obviously, we talk about the Cybertruck wiper. I mean LOOK AT THAT THING.
