What’s the deal with the metaverse?
So what is the metaverse really? Following a montage of BBC World Service listeners’ responses and opinions, contributing expert Ghislaine Boddington will shed light on this question. As it turns …
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Podcasters are organizing to support abortion rights after Roe is overturned
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images I hope you all had a good weekend. I certainly wasn’t huddled in a ball of anxiety about the very fabric of women’s rights in …
Spotify secretly launched a show with this controversial duo — it’s already a hit
Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Spritz Society Spotify has a brand new original topping its podcast chart, but it would probably prefer if you didn’t know about it. Last …
Vergecast: M2 MacBook Pro review, Solana’s crypto phone, and this week’s tech news
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex …
Welcome to our new Wednesday edition of The Vergecast
We have big news for listeners of The Vergecast, The Verge’s flagship podcast. We are now publishing twice a week — on Wednesdays and Fridays! On Fridays, it’ll be the …
Japan tackles online insults
Increased punishment for online insults in Japan Japan has taken the first steps to make online insults punishable by up to one year in prison. This new legislation comes two …
How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Big plans to go all-electric by 2030 Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius became CEO in 2019 but has been working for Mercedes since …
Vergecast: Dish’s 5G network, Apple’s Major League Soccer deal, and Google’s AI debate
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, editor-at-large David Pierce, and managing editor Alex Cranz …
Archiving music in glass
‘Project Silica’ uses ultrafast laser optics and machine learning to utilise glass as a storage device. The fused silica glass is fully resilient to electromagnetic pulses (EMP) and to the …
How fandom built the internet as we know it, with Kaitlyn Tiffany
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Her new book on the long history of fangirls, from the Beatles to One Direction Every now and again, I’m asked to …