Decoder
Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas – and other problems. Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policy makers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future. Subscribe here!
We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you’re here.
How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up?
Apple Music raised its rates. Will Amazon Music follow suit?
Ransomware attacks still plague our healthcare system. Steve Cagle’s cybersecurity company is trying to prevent them.
Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.
Signal messages are more private than iMessage and WhatsApp. Here’s how.
A year after rebranding Facebook to Meta, Mark Zuckerberg is still all in on building the metaverse
How CEO Pat Gelsinger changed the culture at Intel and bet big on the silicon heartland
Arm’s chips are in your iPhone — but what exactly does Arm do?
The Flexport CEO’s tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff
Mark Bergen takes us inside the black box
Facebook is figuring out what a new generation wants from social media
The brands are at it again
Selena Gomez’s beauty brand has grown beyond her own social reach
And why it’s 40 percent cheaper to run
The company’s roller-coaster journey from COVID crash to wedding boom
Maybe it won’t be a dystopia?
Riding the wave of the outdoor cooking revolution
Big plans to go all-electric by 2030
Her new book on the long history of fangirls, from the Beatles to One Direction
Verge labor reporter on the fight to unionize
With Michael Chobanian, the president of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine
Running a creator-owned streaming service
Uber, Facebook, and Spotify already use UiPath software
Stories and lessons from his new book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
On the frontier of fighting the NSA
A plan to revive US manufacturing gone wrong
Plus, why a16z has spent $3 billion on web3 startups
Plus, Disney’s battle of the Bobs
Robinhood is launching a new cash card today
The European Commission’s competition watchdog is thinking bigger than lawsuits
CEO Matt Mullenweg on why he bets big on small companies
Plus, how to make a chip in a chip shortage
Protecting your patents against tech giants
Demystifying the law of the internet with crypto professor Tonya Evans
Tackling tech’s diversity problem with Bärí Williams
How a Black news startup was born from a racial justice reckoning
Turning the ‘Great Resignation’ into good business