The Vergecast

Alex Stamos, former chief security officer of Facebook and director of the Stanford Internet Observatory talks to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and editor Casey Newton about his role consulting on security for Zoom, disinformation around the pandemic on social media, and the threat of foreign interference in the 2020 election.

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Stories discussed this week:

• The disappointing truth about antibody testing
• Apple is giving $10 million to COVID-19 testing kit company
• FDA authorizes CRISPR-based test for COVID-19
• Sen. Ed Markey wants the FCC to rethink its broadband deployment plans
• An Amazon warehouse worker in New York has died of COVID-19
• An Amazon VP’s resignation has cast a spotlight on the company’s working conditions
• Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders demand Amazon explain whistleblower firings
• Pittsburgh’s airport is the first in the US to use UV-cleaning robots
• NYC will use powerful ultraviolet lamps to kill the coronavirus on subways and buses
• ESPN to air live NBA 2K League games
• We’ve known how to make healthier buildings for decades
• The spring of iterative hardware updates
• MacBook Pro 13-inch: come for the keyboard, stay for the performance
• The saga of Apple’s bad butterfly MacBook keyboards is finally over
• Microsoft’s new Surface Go 2 has a bigger display and better Intel processor
• Microsoft Surface Book 3: new Nvidia GPUs, up to ... - The Verge
• Watch the first Xbox Series X gameplay footage, showing off ray-tracing and graphics of the next-gen console
• These 11 new games will get free upgrades for the Xbox Series X
• Here are the first 13 games optimized for the Xbox Series X
• Xbox Series X Optimized games promise 4K up to 120fps, ray tracing, and fast load times
• Madden 21 shows that cross-gen gaming on Xbox Series X and PS5 could be messy
• Sonos announces the Arc, its first Dolby Atmos soundbar
• Sonos will launch its new app and big S2 software update on June 8th
• Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team

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This week we saw Sonos announce several new products, most significantly the Arc, which is the company’s first soundbar to support Dolby Atmos. Other new devices include the Sonos Five speaker and a refreshed Sub, and all three will only work with Sonos’ new S2 app that launches next month.

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence sat down virtually with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel for The Vergecast to discuss the new products, the S2 update, the backlash that Sonos took from customers over its “Recycle Mode”, and the perception that the company is leaving customers with older Sonos hardware behind.

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Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss quarterly earnings from tech companies, the new CEOs of the three biggest mobile carriers, and how Trolls World Tour may be changing the movie theater business.

Stories discussed this week:

• More than 1 million people in the US have tested positive for COVID-19
• No one knows when the COVID-19 pandemic will end 
• It’s impossible to count everyone with COVID-19
• Elon Musk is dangerously wrong about the novel coronavirus
• Elon Musk says shelter-in-place orders during COVID-19 are ‘fascist’ 
• Americans are surprisingly open to letting their phones be used for coronavirus tracking
• Apple and Google have begun testing their COVID-19 exposure notification API 
• How a team of NASA engineers developed a ventilator for COVID-19 patients in just a month
• Apple’s latest iOS beta makes it easier to unlock an iPhone while wearing a face mask
• Zoom admits it doesn’t have 300 million users, corrects misleading claims
• Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody
• Messenger Rooms are Facebook’s answer to Zoom and Houseparty for the pandemic
• Microsoft Teams jumps 70 percent to 75 million daily active users
• Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better
• Facebook usage is surging, but the company warns it may be temporary
• New DisplayPort spec enables 16K video over USB-C
• AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is stepping down, John Stankey to serve as new CEO
• John Legere abruptly resigns from T-Mobile board of directors ‘to pursue other options’
• Trolls World Tour made nearly $100 million without theaters, but theaters aren’t obsolete
• AMC Theaters will no longer play Universal movies after Trolls World Tour’s on-demand Next year’s Oscars will allow streaming-only movies to qualify, but with heavy restrictionssuccess
• Regal Cinemas warns Universal over Trolls World Tour skipping theaters 
• WarnerMedia expands free HBO Max deal to HBO subscribers who pay through Apple’s services
• Oppo Find X2 Pro review: supercar smartphone
• Intel NUC 9 Extreme review: small size, big potential
• Google Pixel Buds review: second time’s the charm
• DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel interviews co-director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance Stacy Mitchell about her critique of Amazon's power in America's marketplace.

As Amazon becomes more essential infrastructure during the coronavirus pandemic, Nilay and Stacy discuss the increased visibility of Amazon's monopoly power and the way it treats its workers.

Is it possible to regulate a company that people use and love so much?

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Stories discussed this week:

• Google is now listing COVID-19 testing centers in search results
• CEOs sticking with Trump’s ‘open the economy’ group after he tweets call to ‘liberate’ states
• Bill Gates says countries will probably use interviews and databases to track the coronavirus
• Bill Gates is now the leading target for coronavirus conspiracies, says report
• Connecticut suburb deploys ‘pandemic drones’ to try to enforce social distancing
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is helping hospitals remotely treat coronavirus patients
• The jury is still out on Zoom trials
• Marco Polo has been around for years, but it’s blowing up amid the pandemic
• Lo-fi beats to quarantine to are booming on YouTube
• Apps aren’t a reliable way to measure blood oxygen levels
• First at-home COVID-19 testing kit authorized by the FDA
• iPhone SE review 
• Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro review: the best way to turn an iPad into a laptop
• Logitech Combo Touch review
• Microsoft prepares to launch Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2
• Apple will reportedly use 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac
• LG V60 Dual Screen review: V for versatility
• Motorola returns to flagship phones with the Edge Plus - The ...
• Wi-Fi is getting its biggest upgrade in 20 years
• Snapchat use is, predictably, way up with everyone home and staring at screens
• Netflix adds 15 million subscribers as people stream more than ever, but warns about tough road ahead 
• Netflix says Tiger King is as popular as Stranger Things 
• HBO Max will launch on May 27th 
• Fandango just purchased Vudu from Walmart to better compete against Amazon, iTunes
• Sonos launches its own streaming radio service
• Samsung smart TVs are getting an Apple Music app
• Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better

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Part of The Verge's Interface Live series, silicon valley editor Casey Newton talks with Bloomberg reporter Sarah Frier about her new book No Filter, which delves into the history of Instagram and how the app became what it is today.

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Stories discussed this week:

• The Interface Live on Zoom: the hidden history of Instagram, with Bloomberg reporter Sarah Frier
• In a self-isolated world, developers are learning to make games from home
• How GM and Ford switched out pickup trucks for breathing machines
• The search for COVID-19 treatments shows how messy science can be
• How Medium became the best and worst place for coronavirus news
• Unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows
• How you’ll use Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool
• Apple’s second-gen iPhone SE is here: all the news and details
• Even ‘small’ phones are big now
• The iPhone SE 2’s camera setup is going to lean on Apple’s software
• The new Moto G Stylus and G Power are surprisingly adept cameraphones
• Samsung’s Galaxy S10 Lite will launch in the US on April 17th for $650
• Google’s midrange Pixel 4A could launch soon, and there may not be an XL version
• Apple is tweaking how MacBooks charge to extend battery lifespan
• Apple’s new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro goes up for preorder, ships next week
• Apple’s over-ear headphones reportedly have swappable ear pads and headbands
• Here are five things with four wheels that cost less than the Mac Pro’s $700 wheel kit
• Go read this analysis of what the iPad Pro’s LIDAR sensor is capable of
• OnePlus 8 Pro review: big league
• OnePlus 8 review: familiar formula
• OnePlus announces the Bullets Wireless Z headphones
• The $579 RedMagic 5G is the first phone with a 144Hz display
• Verizon is buying BlueJeans, one of Zoom’s videoconferencing rivals
• Google is reportedly building its own processor for Pixels and Chromebooks
• Foxconn’s buildings in Wisconsin are still empty, one year later

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Nilay Patel talks with The Verge's Adi Robertson, Casey Newton, and Nicole Wetsman about Apple and Google announcing a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus, allowing users to share data through Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transmissions and approved apps from health organizations.

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• Apple and Google are building a coronavirus tracking system into iOS and Android
• What is contact tracing?
• Why Bluetooth apps are bad at discovering new cases of COVID-19

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Stories discussed this week:

• Webcams have become impossible to find, and prices are skyrocketing
• Why the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories don’t make sense
• UK mobile carriers politely ask people to stop burning 5G towers
• No one’s getting new emoji in 2021 because of the pandemic
• Foxconn will produce ventilators at its controversial Wisconsin plant
• Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD has rewritten the rules
• Nvidia’s RTX Super GPUs for laptops have arrived — here’s where you’ll see them first
• Asus’ ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 is a gaming laptop with two screens
• MSI announces new laptops with Comet Lake H and new Nvidia GPUs
• Gigabyte’s latest gaming laptop supports Intel’s most powerful 10th Gen Core i9 processor yet
• Razer’s new Blade 15 has powerful specs and an improved keyboard
• Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review
• Asus Chromebook Flip C436 review
• Microsoft reportedly delays Surface Neo beyond 2020
• Can Meg Whitman outwit a pandemic with Quibi?
• Quibi app review: shifting landscape
• Quibi’s shows are fun, familiar, and a little forgettable
• It’s impossible to screenshot a Quibi show, and that’s detrimental to its success
• Disney Plus surpasses 50 million subscribers
• Sony reveals new DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5
• Microsoft’s Xbox Game Bar is getting custom widgets and its own store on Windows
• The OnePlus 8 Pro will have super fast, 30W wireless charging
• Google’s midrange Pixel 4A could launch soon, and there may not be an XL version 
• Google’s Hangouts Meet is now just Google Meet
• Google extends free access to advanced teleconferencing features to September 30th
• Google trademarks 'Google Meet' and 'Google Chat,' support ...

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott about his new book Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley―Making AI Serve Us All.

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Nilay, Dieter, and Paul talk to Tom Warren about Zoom's privacy and security concerns.

The crew also looks back at the history of Sprint after it finally merged with T-Mobile.

Paul's weekly segment "If I were a rich man" updates the keyboard-in-the-front club.

The show ends with some chat about Apple buying the weather app Dark Sky and allowing in-app rentals on their mobile devices.

Stories discussed in this episode:

• After walkouts, Amazon pledges temperature checks and masks in all warehouses
• Jeff Bezos’ space company is pressuring employees to launch a tourist rocket during the pandemic
• Zoom is leaking some user information because of an issue with how the app groups contacts
• Zoom faces a privacy and security backlash as it surges in ...
• Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and ...
• Zoom isn't actually end-to-end encrypted 
• Zoom quickly fixes 'malware-like' macOS installer with new ...
• Microsoft aims to win back consumers with new Microsoft 365 subscriptions
• T-Mobile completes merger with Sprint, John Legere steps down as CEO
• Sprint is dead. Long live Sprint
• What’s next for Sprint customers now that the T-Mobile merger has gone through?
• Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD has rewritten the rules
• Apple now lets some video streaming apps bypass the App Store cut
• Amazon Prime Video now allows in-app rentals and purchases on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV
• Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to founder and CEO of The Future Today Institute Amy Webb.

Amy is also a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and recently came out with a book called The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Amy and Nilay discuss whether we could have predicted this outbreak, how it can change trends in the future, and how it may even accelerate trends like AI and cloud-based robotics.

They also talk about The Future Today Institute's 2020 Tech Trend Report that was released this month — which is a quantitative look at the big trends that may dominate the future.

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Stories discussed this week:

• Amazon warehouse workers are outraged after a coworker tested positive for COVID-19 and they weren’t notified
• ‘We’re all going to get sick eventually’: Amazon workers are struggling to provide for a nation in quarantine
• It’s time for a regular Amazon daily coronavirus briefing
• Twitter locks account encouraging coronavirus ‘chickenpox parties’
• Zoom is 2020’s hottest yoga studio
• Apple says customers must wait to pick up repairs locked inside its retail stores
• Best Buy moves to curbside pickup only as it sees surge in orders for home office equipment
• Disney Plus and Facebook are also reducing streaming quality in Europe
• Amazon and Apple are reducing streaming quality to lessen broadband strain in Europe
• YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe
• YouTube creators figure out how to film during a pandemic
• Fashion influencers are rethinking their curated aesthetics because they can’t leave their houses
• Fox will broadcast NASCAR’s substitute sim racing ‘season’ on television
• Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and NASCAR canceled races
• How to watch movies with friends online
• Everything you need to know about the coronavirus 
• Subscribe to Home Screen: a newsletter to brighten your inbox
• Apple MacBook Air (2020) review: the best Mac for most people
• Apple iPad Pro review 2020: small spec bump, big camera bump
• Never buy hardware today based on a promise of software tomorrow
• The new MacBook Air and iPad Pro are already discounted on Amazon
• Huawei hopes the P40 Pro can lure you away from Google 
• Living a Google-free life with a Huawei phone
• Dell now lets you control iPhones from its PCs

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown about Impossible's mission to replace animal-derived meat worldwide and what that would mean for our climate and culture.

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Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss the new iPad Pro and Macbook Air that Apple announced this week, the confusion around Google's coronavirus testing website, and the specs revealed for the PS5.

Stories discussed this week:

• Comcast modestly raises slow internet speeds for low-income users because of coronavirus
• AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus
• AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and others agree not to overcharge customers during coronavirus
• Verily’s coronavirus screening website launches with very limited access
• Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects
• The White House still can’t explain what’s going on with the coronavirus screening website
• Coronavirus testing shouldn’t be this complicated
• Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread
• Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild keyboard cover
• iPadOS 13.4 adds full mouse and trackpad support
• The iPad Pro is ready to supplant the Mac just as the MacBook Air is great again
• Logitech’s iPad keyboard case with trackpad costs half as much as Apple’s
• The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR sensor is an AR hardware solution in search of software
• The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR scanner can turn a living room into an AR game of Hot Lava
• You can try the iPad’s new trackpad and mouse support right now with Apple’s public beta
• Apple announces new MacBook Air with improved keyboard, faster performance, and more storage
• Moog and Korg are offering synth apps for free while we’re all stuck at home
• PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: a complicated battle of SSD and GPU speeds
• Sony says the PlayStation 5’s SSD will completely change next-gen level design
• The Xbox Series X specs look impressive, but that’s not enough
• Here’s how Xbox Series X removable storage will work

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and Verge policy reporter Makena Kelly talk to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel about American broadband policy and the advocacy for internet access, broadband competition, and net neutrality.

While the coronavirus pandemic is happening and people are working online at home, now is a perfect time to talk about who has access to the broadband, who doesn't, how much it costs, and how we can get it to more people for less money.

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Stories discussed this week:

• Dr Disrespect is the villain who could change the future of TV
• This backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation
• The art and craft of scientific glassblowing
• Samsung Galaxy S20 review: just right
• Leaked watchOS 7 code reveals new ‘International’ watchface
• Apple watchOS 7 features leak: sleep tracking, watchface sharing, and more
• Apple Watches may soon detect blood oxygen levels
• More iOS 14 leaks hint at next Apple hardware and a new home screen view
• iOS 14 will reportedly have improved mouse cursor support
• New MacBook models with scissor-switch keyboards are reportedly coming soon
• Google Pixel 4A hands-on reveals specs, camera, and a possible release window
• Google can reportedly revoke Android licenses if TV makers also partner with Amazon
• A sneaky attempt to end encryption is worming its way through Congress
• Congress takes aim at Google search in antitrust hearing

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Verge health reporter Nicole Wetsman and Verge deputy editor Liz Lopatto about the health concerns of the coronavirus outbreak as well as its economic effect in the United States. 

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Stories discussed this week:

• Everything you need to know about the coronavirus 
• The Verge Guide to 2020 Election
• Congress proposes anti-child abuse rules to punish web platforms — and raises fears about encryption
• The Verge tech survey 2020
• Apple reportedly releasing an iPad keyboard with a trackpad later this year
• Apple is planning to launch a 14.1-inch MacBook Pro with a ...
• Mac Pro review: the price of power - The Verge
• Apple Pro Display XDR review: category of one
• TCL’s new foldable and rollable concepts imagine a wild future of phones
• Vivo’s Apex 2020 concept has breakthrough cameras and an ultra-curved screen
• Get a closer look at the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha in MKBHD’s hands-on video
• New Google Pixel features coming this month include more emoji, dark mode scheduling, and Google Pay improvements
• Samsung launches its 2020 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs

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Verge policy reporter Makena Kelly chats with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about important points in US tech policy recently as we go into the 2020 presidential election.

Nilay and Makena get into the policy topics that The Verge will be covering heavily this year — including political advertising on social media, amendments to Section 230, encryption and privacy legislation, and broadband access in rural areas.

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Stories discussed this week:

• Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: shutter bug
• Samsung pledges to improve Galaxy S20 camera after reviewers see issues
• Bob Iger steps down as Disney CEO, replaced by Bob Chapek
• Meet Bob Chapek, Disney’s new CEO and the Tim Cook to Iger’s Steve Jobs
• Disney’s new corporate synergy nightmare is personified in Simpsons promo
• New Juul patent application hints at AI-powered vape to help users quit nicotine
• Apple’s new Mac Pro and Pro Display technology overviews show off just how ‘pro’ they are
• Sony did a phone with a headphone jack!
• LG’s new V60 ThinQ 5G shows steady evolution for a company in need of big change
• Amazon’s Eero routers get updated with Apple’s HomeKit support
• Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus review: better sound, even better stamina
• Huawei announces the Mate XS foldable with a more durable display and faster processor
• Xbox Series X official specs: AMD CPU, 12 teraflop GPU, SSD, and more
• Microsoft’s Xbox Series X will be able to resume games even after a reboot
• Microsoft confirms Xbox Series X will support "four generations of gaming"

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One of the burning questions facing the world of self-driving cars is whether it makes sense to go all-electric or not. Some, like GM-owned Cruise, is all in on battery-electric vehicles. Others are going half-and-half, like Waymo building a fleet that includes both all-electric Jaguar I-Pace SUVs and gas-burning Chrysler Pacifica minivans.

Argo, the Pittsburgh-based self-driving company backed by Ford and Volkswagen, has concerns about an all-electric fleet, especially when it comes to the need to recoup the cost of all the expensive technology that makes the car autonomous. The company’s CEO, Brian Salesky, sat down with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and senior reporter Andrew Hawkins to explain why.

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Stories discussed this week:

• Folding glass: how, why, and the truth of Samsung’s Z Flip
• A Motorola Razr’s screen is reportedly peeling right on the fold
• Galaxy Z Flip teardown reveals that its hinge brushes may not block much dust
• Galaxy Z Flip durability test calls Samsung’s Ultra Thin ‘Glass’ into question
• Leaked images show TCL prototype phone with expandable, slide-out display
• Dish Network floats merger with DirecTV over pace of cord-cutting
• CBS is planning an improved streaming service after squandering its head start with All Access
• HBO and HBO Max are headed to YouTube TV
• HBO Max’s first ad wants to remind you how many of your favorite shows and movies it owns
• Disney+ has surpassed 28 million subscribers since launch …
• Tiger’s retro LCD handheld games are making a comeback
• The most interesting new Android 11 features so far
• Android 11 will fix dozens of small annoyances, but what about the apps?
• Google releases Android 11 developer preview earlier than expected
• Apple considers allowing apps like Chrome and Gmail to be set as iOS defaults

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Chief Product Officer of Adobe Scott Belsky chats with Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and reporter Dami Lee about what he learned from putting Photoshop on the iPad, adapting products to new creators and platforms, Creative Cloud for the Mac Pro, and the goals of the Content Authenticity Initiative.

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Stories discussed this week:

• Motorola Razr review: folding flip phone flops
• Motorola Razr undergoes iFixit’s ‘most complicated’ teardown yet
• Samsung learned some tough lessons from the Galaxy Fold debacle
• Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip beats the Motorola Razr in nearly every way
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip first look: folding glass changes everything
• The Galaxy S20 is the first high-refresh display phone many people will own
• Why Samsung’s 108-megapixel camera isn’t just a gimmick
• All of the biggest announcements from Samsung’s Galaxy S20 event
• Samsung confirms its AirDrop-like ‘Quick Share’ is launching on the Galaxy S20
• Here’s how Samsung’s Galaxy S20 stacks up against the Pixel 4, OnePlus 7T, and more
• Samsung’s regular Galaxy S20 doesn’t support ultra-fast 5G
• Samsung’s Galaxy S20, Plus, and Ultra first look: cameras, 5G, and 120Hz screens
• Samsung confirms its AirDrop-like ‘Quick Share’ is launching on the Galaxy S20
• T-Mobile and Sprint win lawsuit and will be allowed to merge
• The court let T-Mobile buy Sprint because Sprint completely sucks

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In this week’s Vergecast, former New Jersey attorney general Anne Milgram stopped by the studio to talk with Verge editor in chief Nilay Patel and me, senior reporter Colin Lecher.

As Nilay notes, Milgram, who also co-hosts the podcast Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara, is “the first cop we’ve ever had on the show,” and gave some thoughtful responses to questions about surveillance, predictive policing, and more.

“We all, I think, have the right reaction, which is we don’t want to use data that’s biased or we don’t want to have problems,” Milgram says. “And yet in our personal lives, we give access to a huge amount of information and a lot of it is not public.”

The rise of home security systems like Amazon’s Ring camera have raised serious questions about privacy, and Milgram weighed in on the issue. Below is an excerpt for that conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity.

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Stories discussed this week;

• Election tech was supposed to clean up the Iowa caucus …
• Iowa's caucus fracas shows we're still too ignorant about how …
• America is bad at voting (it isn’t just Iowa)
• US attorney general says tech and telecom industries should invest in Huawei competitors
• Donald Trump ‘apoplectic’ in call with Boris Johnson over Huawei
• US pushing tech and telecom industries to build 5G alternative to Huawei
• Microsoft’s Windows future is now tied to hardware
• Microsoft's Surface chief now leads Windows and hardware ...
• YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for …
• Creators finally know how much money YouTube makes, and ...
• Google now has a 'multibillion-dollar' hardware business
• Google opens its latest Google Glass AR headset for direct purchase
• The Super Bowl is streaming in 4K HDR for the first time ...
• Roku and Fox strike a last-minute deal to keep Super Bowl ...
• Apple might be releasing a new Apple TV soon

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Intel is one of the biggest names in the tech world, with chips that quite literally are the brains behind most of the computers and servers that we use every day. But the world of computers is expanding and Intel is changing, too, with a focus on both edge computing that puts processing resources in the cloud and the power that’s available directly on the physical device. 

And at the head of that is Dr. Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, the chief engineering officer and group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture and Client Group at Intel. Renduchintala joined Intel in 2016, having previously headed up competitor Qualcomm’s chip business. 

Renduchintala is the person in charge of almost all of Intel’s hardware, from design to engineering to manufacturing. He joined Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and news editor Chaim Gartenberg for an interview episode of The Vergecast this week to discuss the present and future of Intel, including the company’s place in the development of 5G, the changing landscape of personal- and cloud-based computing, and what the next-generation of processors could look like. 

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Stories discussed this week:

• Former Windows chief reveals Microsoft's reaction to the iPad …
• Apple's iPad changed the tablet game 10 years ago today …
• The iPad is still finding its place ten years in
• Microsoft's Surface Pro X is the world's most extravagant ...
• Apple's iPhone 11 and AirPods help company hit a new …
• Apple reportedly working on tracking tags, high ...
• Google's ads just look like search results now
• How much longer will we trust Google's search results?
• Google is backtracking on its controversial desktop search …
• Google aims to unify its workplace tools and messaging apps into one service
• The Scroll subscription service is an ingenious web technology hack
• Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month …
• Pentagram designed a smart speaker that’s like HitClips for kids
• Here’s what you need to watch the Super Bowl in 4K HDR
• WarnerMedia takes $1.2 billion revenue hit in hopes that HBO ...
• AT&T tried to buy out the streaming wars — and customers are ...
• Comcast is raising rates for cable subscribers as it moves ...
• Samsung Galaxy Z Flip rumor roundup: everything we think …

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Musician Neil Young and tech executive Phil Baker have been trying to push the tech industry to make it easier for consumers to listen to high-quality audio for almost a decade now. The duo’s hi-res music player Pono aimed to fix problems they said plagued MP3 players like the iPod and music software like iTunes — like compressed, lossy, and low-fidelity audio files that were not similar enough to their original recordings.

But five years after the Pono was released, Young believes the tech industry has still not advanced enough for consumers to easily listen to high resolution audio. The two men’s new book, To Feel the Music: A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High Quality Audio, details the hurdles they had to overcome to create the Pono, as well as what the tech industry should do in order to get consumers to realize what their missing with streaming and “CD-quality” music.

In an interview with The Vergecast, Young tells Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel that even though Grammy-winning artists are able to make music almost anywhere they go on their laptop or mobile devices, they’re still sacrificing on audio fidelity.

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Stories from this week:

• Trump demands Apple unlock iPhones: ‘They have the keys to so many criminals and criminal minds’
• How to FBI-proof your encrypted iPhone backups 
• Can Apple live up to Apple’s privacy ads?
• Apple rejects AG Barr’s claim that it didn’t assist with Pensacola shooting probe
• The FBI has asked Apple to unlock another shooter’s iPhone
• Senator asks Jeff Bezos for more information on Saudi-linked hack
• Saudi Arabian prince reportedly hacked Jeff Bezos’ phone with malicious WhatsApp message
• PSA: Never open a WhatsApp message from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia
• Here’s a first look at Android on Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo
• Microsoft’s software plan for the Duo Android phone is surprisingly realistic
• Introduction to dual-screen devices
• Motorola’s foldable Razr will launch on February 6th after delay
• Cruise driverless taxi: no steering wheel, no pedals
• Sonos will stop providing software updates for its oldest products in May
• Comcast plans price hikes for cable customers as it looks ahead to streaming Peacock launch
• Google’s ads just look like search results now

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After a congressional hearing with executives from Sonos, Tile, Basecamp, and PopSockets, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), speaks to The Verge’s Nilay Patel and Adi Robertson about leading an investigation into how big tech platforms like Google, Amazon, and Apple are affecting competition for other tech companies.

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel interviews Yves Behar and Jason Jason, co-founders of the smartlock company August about their new products, the state of the smart home, and making products that work in both European and American homes.

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Editor-in-chief of The Verge Nilay Patel talks to CEO of AMD Dr Lisa Su at CES 2020 about AMD's new Ryzen laptop chips, the competition with Intel for consumer laptops, and if she is going to take on the high end of Nvidia's GPUs.

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Stories this week:

• The Verge Awards at CES 2020: welcome to the land of the concept
• Eight big takeaways from CES 2020
• These gaming PCs want to compete in the console wars
• Laptops were boring at CES, but there’s hope for the future
• The most important TVs of CES 2020 were finally for the masses
• Microsoft’s new Edge Chromium browser launches on Windows and macOS
• How to install extensions on Microsoft’s new Edge browser
• The browser wars are back, but it’s different this time
• Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used anyhow
• Google to 'phase out' third-party cookies in Chrome, but not for ...
• Roomba’s robot vacuum could grow arms in the near future
• OnePlus confirms its next phone will jump to a 120Hz screen
• Latest Galaxy S20 Plus leak shows off 120Hz display and no …
• Samsung’s Galaxy S20 and its many cameras revealed in leaked photos 

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Anna Wiener talks to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about her book Uncanny Valley, a memoir about her time in Silicon Valley working for startups when they were new and flashy. Wiener also discusses the shift in tone to the reality of what technology and connection do to us and our culture.

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At CES 2020, The Verge's Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn sat down with OnePlus CEO Pete Lau in his first podcast appearance to talk about the OnePlus concept phone with a disappearing camera as well as his thoughts on newer technologies in the smartphone world, like 5G and folding phones.

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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Ashley Carman, and Sean O'Kane highlight the most important, weird, and surprising things The Verge saw at CES 2020.

Stories from this episode:

• Sonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks
• Amazon’s hardware boss responds to Sonos accusations of stolen technology
• Sony’s electric car is the best surprise of CES
• Byton’s 48-inch screen might not be as distracting as it looks
• Mercedes-Ben’s Avatar-themed concept car with scales
• Sony surprises with an electric concept car called the Vision-S
• Segway S-Pod
• Quibi versus the world
• Spotify will use everything it knows about you to target podcast ads
• 2020 might be the year of reasonably okay foldable PCs, maybe
• Foldable and dual-screen laptops desperately need Windows 10X
• Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen
• PS5 logo
• Intel NUC Extreme platform
• Neon CEO explains the tech behind his overhyped ‘artificial humans’
• Samsung’s ‘artificial humans’ are just digital avatars
• This is Intel’s first discrete graphics card in 20 years, but you can’t buy one
• Samsung’s Ballie
• The most promising AirPower alternative isn’t ready yet
• Royole’s new smart speaker has a wraparound touch display

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Recorded live in Las Vegas, The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Ashley Carman discuss what has already been announced at the start of CES 2020 as well as what to expect throughout the week.

Stories discussed in this episode:

• Amazon’s Fire TV soundbars will get Dolby Atmos, HDMI switching, and more later this year
• Samsung details its stunning bezel-less 8K TV
• Samsung’s new Sero TV can rotate vertically for your TikTok and Instagram videos
• LG unveils eight ‘Real 8K’ OLED and LCD TVs ahead of CES
• LG’s smart TVs are the latest to add Apple TV, and you won’t have to buy a 2020 model to get it
• Sony’s first TVs of 2020 include its smallest 4K OLED ever
• TCL will enable variable refresh rates for some TVs later this year
• Vizio’s 2020 lineup includes its biggest TV yet and first-ever OLED
• TCL’s new soundbar uses reflectors for more immersive Dolby Atmos audio
• Roku launches program to let third-party soundbars integrate with Roku TV
• Amazon’s Fire TV soundbars will get Dolby Atmos, HDMI switching, and more later this year
• Vizio’s new soundbar rotates its speakers for better Dolby Atmos surround sound
• Ring adds lightbulbs, solar power to its smart lighting lineup
• The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook is beautiful, fast, and expensive
• Segway’s newest self-balancing vehicle is an egg-shaped wheelchair
• My favorite thing so far at CES
• Dell’s Concept Ori and Concept Duet laptops imagine a foldable and dual-screen future
• Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is a $2,499 PC with a folding OLED screen

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Stories discussed this week:

• Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that’s …
• Big tech is finally working together to fix the smart home
• Z-Wave is making a huge change so it doesn’t get left behind in the smart home wars
• Ikea 2.0: inside the furniture giant’s big bet on the smart home ...
• This Apple Watch charger plugs directly into a USB-C port so you can carry fewer cords
• Xbox Series X: all the news about Microsoft’s next-gen game console
• Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020
• The Xbox Series X is basically a PC
• The Xbox One Series X: bad name, good design 
• Google Stadia should have stayed in beta

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Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks Verge news reporter Zoe Schiffer about the concerning work conditions at luggage startup Away and the details from the Verge investigation.

Further reading:

Former Away employees describe a toxic work environment

Away replaces CEO Steph Korey after Verge investigation

The Away scandal is a moment of reckoning for Slack

Here’s the leaked memo in which Away tells employees not to fave The Verge’s investigation

Away’s new CEO was going to be second in command — until a toxic workplace story blew up

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Stories this week:

• Apple’s most expensive Mac Pro costs $52,599
• Apple’s most expensive Pro Display XDR requires a special, Apple-made cloth to clean it
• You can now buy Apple's new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR …
• The Mac Pro's optional wheels cost $400
• Logitech made a bespoke $200 magnetic 4K webcam for …
• Apple will reportedly release an iPhone without any ports in 2021
• Lightroom finally adds direct photo import on iOS
• The Apple TV remote is so bad that a Swiss TV company developed a normal replacement
• Rewound is a new app that turns your iPhone into an iPod
• The Verge’s gadgets of the decade
• Twitter is funding research into a decentralized version of its ...
• A decentralized Twitter would bring the company back to its past
• Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs
• Twitter is bringing back labels for US election candidates

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Editor-in-chief of The Verge Nilay Patel and Verge reporter Julia Alexander sit down with CEO/Co-Owner of FaZe Clan Lee Trink. Lee talks how he runs a multifaceted company from working with talent to the dependence on platforms to selling apparel.

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2:00- Tesla Cybertruck first ride: inside Elon Musk’s electric pickup truck

23:55 - Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is an electric SUV with up to 300 miles of range

30:30 - No, e-bikes aren’t cheating

37:03 - Elon Musk tries to explain Twitter in ‘pedo guy’ defamation case

1:00:55 - Paul’s weekly segment “In the apocalypse, we don’t need space bars”

1:03:23 - Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquish control of Alphabet to CEO Sundar Pichai

1:19:05 - Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 flagship is here — without integrated 5G

Other links:

• Tesla Cybertruck will get up to 500 miles of range and start at $39,900
• Elon Musk explains why Tesla’s Cybertruck windows smashed during presentation
• Elon Musk promises Cybertruck vs. Ford F-150 rematch after controversy
• Google’s third era
• Larry Page is the tech world’s Dr. Manhattan
• The rise, disappearance, and retirement of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 865 promises 5G, camera, and gaming improvements
• In 2020, Qualcomm’s slower chips may be more important than its best ones
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 chip could usher in the first affordable 5G phones
• Emotonal Baggage: Inside the toxic work environment at Away
• The dark side of electronic waste recycling

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Verge reporter Adi Robertson talks to Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel about how to spot lies, false information, and trolling online and how to handle it as a user on the internet. Adi just published a guide on The Verge that details a system for slowing down and thinking about information — whether that information is true, false, or something in between.

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Congress is in the process of passing a non-partisan bill to increase support for enforcement against illegal pirate radio operations: Fines can now go as high as $2 million, and the FCC will fund “enforcement sweeps” in major radio markets. Does this target well-intentioned community radio, designed to speak to immigrant communities?

Episode three of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Bijan Stephen.

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How the Hmong diaspora uses the world's most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful.

Episode two of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Mia Sato.

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When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned those voices, leaving many of them for dead.

Episode 1 of The Verge's Pirate Radio mini-series featuring Chris Harland-Dunaway.

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This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul go through the products announced this week including Apple's 16-inch Macbook Pro and Motorola's new Razr foldable phone. Julia Alexander then joins the show to cover the initial launch of Disney+ and the ongoing streaming wars.

Stories this week:

• The everything town in the middle of nowhere
• Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is here, and it has a good keyboard
• A fully loaded 16-inch MacBook Pro costs $6,099
• Apple’s new Mac Pro is shipping next month
• Google’s rollout of RCS chat for all Android users in the US begins today
• Motorola resurrects the Razr as a foldable Android smartphone
• John Carmack stepping down as CTO of Oculus to work on AI
• Disney+ experiencing ‘unable to connect’ errors on launch day
• The Mandalorian’s first episode shows that Star Wars can work on the small screen
• Disney+ doesn’t have to sell anyone on streaming
• How to get a year of free Disney+ from Verizon
• The Simpsons’ aspect ratio is messed up on Disney+
• Verizon’s new set-top box is possibly the worst option out there for streaming
• Apple could bundle news, TV, and music into one subscription as soon as 2020

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