We talked a lot on this episode about what it means when the web is overrun by AI — the news sites, the social networks, the search engines, everything. It’s robots all the way down, y’all. Then we talked Macs, AirPods, Call of Duty, and much more. Alex may have brought up Plex a few times.
Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
The FTC’s trial against Microsoft continues to rage, as do the fights in Congress over how best to protect kids online. Meanwhile, is the Pixel Fold the foldable we’ve been waiting for? And can the Razr be the coolest phone on the planet again? All that, and a lot of feelings about IP ratings, on this episode of The Vergecast.
If you haven’t read Josh Dzieza’s story on the grueling, extremely human work required to make AI systems work, you really should. And then you should catch up on all The Verge’s Smart Home Week coverage, because we have some big ideas about garage door openers on this podcast.
Reddit needs to make money. That’s fair! It’s a company! Companies that don’t make money stop being companies! But Reddit is also more dependent on the good will of its users than most companies — and is at odds with some of those users as we speak. Can Reddit the company and Reddit the community both survive? That’s the question of the week.
(Also, we get heady about the Vision Pro again, and something about a meat thermometer. It’s The Vergecast, y’all.)
Its latest ultra-dramatic sports drama, Quarterback, is scheduled to hit the service on July 12th.
If you’ve seen what Drive to Survive did for F1, what Full Swing (which, disclosure, Vox Media Studios produced — check out next season to watch as a golfer gets the LIV merger news) did for golf, or what Break Point did for tennis, you know this is going to be good.
This is a smart take from Dan Moren at Macworld, reading between the WWDC lines — StandBy, widgets, DockKit, Siri — and wondering if we’re about to see Apple invest in in-home gear in a big way. I think he’s right, but I also think the HomePod is the future of exactly nothing. Super curious about all these docks, though!
