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.
We all decided after recording this episode that we probably should have said more nice things about the classic TiVo remote, which was a true thing of beauty. But we all have our favorites! Plus, don’t miss Nothing CEO Carl Pei talking about phones, glasses, and the hopefully-very-exciting future of gadgets.
Our friends over at the MKBHD Studio tried to figure out exactly that, and came back with a super fun (and delightfully chaotic) video. Watch this one with the best headphones you have, it’s pretty wild how aggressive the audio AI tools are getting!
Nothing wants to invent the future. But you don’t get to invent the future if you can’t first make it in the smartphone biz.
