Protocol Wars - The Fediverse Explained!

The Android Show was this week and gave us a bunch of things to talk about! With Andrew and David out this week, Marques, Adam, and Mariah break down everything that Google showed off. Then Ellis and Rufus came up with a game for everyone to play by combining Family Feud and...Re ...  Show more

Not a lot happened this week but we still somehow yapped for almost two hours about everything from Apple paying out for misleading customers about Apple Intelligence to whether it's pronounced "Read receipts" or "Read receipts." It's a good mix of news, games, and rants this wee ...  Show more

On today's episode, once again, it's OpenAI and DOGE. And some other things! Nilay and David start the show by talking about Elon Musk's surprise bid to buy the nonprofit arm of OpenAI, along with the company's plans for new models and new rules for those models. After that, The ...  Show more

Nilay and David talk about the future of social, in light of Bluesky's recent surge in growth. Threads is huge, Bluesky is ascendent, Mastodon is... around, but can any of them become the next Twitter? Is that even the goal? After that, Kylie Robison joins the show and the gang d ...  Show more

He’s back! Elon Musk, who agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion last spring and then tried to back out of the deal, says he wants to buy Twitter for $44 billion, after all. That doesn’t mean it will actually happen - because, Elon Musk - but maybe it’s real this time. Maybe. So h ...  Show more

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Google's algorithm leak, OpenAI content deals, and more tech news from this week. Further reading: Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation Google confirms the leaked Sea ...  Show more